New 'Arc Rise Fantasia' Screens, Details

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New 'Arc Rise Fantasia' Screens, Details
'Tales-like' Wii RPG

Here are some new details regarding 'Arc Rise Fantasia', a new turn-based RPG currently being developed by imageepoch and published by Marvelous.

- Team making game composed of TOS' game designer, CG director, scenario writer, main battle programmer and other people from TOS.
- The game will have Tales-like optional Skits, opened by pressing 2 button.
- Weapons used in battle get level ups.
- Their abilities pop off in form of geometric pieces - think tetris. Trade pieces among party members or put them tetris style into frames of future weapons.
- Magical abilities are based on each character's 'cage' ,they can be leveled in special shops and fit with gems allowing casting of various elemental spells.
- Game has a brisk pacing-30 hours long.
- Sidequests-guild, casino. Casino has minigames that'll use ir/motion sensing capabilities of the Wii.
- Characters- NP only did the first four characters that were revealed a long time ago.
L'arc Bright Lagoon- mc, merc supports sick mom, and lecherous uncle.
Ryfia- mystery girl
Alphonse 'Arth' Zena Meridia- meridia prince, older bro is the king, L'arc's friend
Adelle Nevanlina- childhood friend/neighbor of L'arc, magic teacher

The release date for the game is still TBA, but hopefully it will come out soon!

Spoiler: Screenshots

 Official Site (Japanese)

 Source (NeoGAF)

 

[Rock Raiyu]

Game needs online multiplayer mode.

 

[SylvWolf]

Looks awesome. Definitely something to check out, as Tales of Vesperia was awesome (4-player co-op ftw!). Hopefully it'll be as good as some of the Tales games.

 

[elfsander]

Looks cool!

 

[Seven]

The character design looks fantastic. Shame it doesn't last long and it's on the Wii.

 

[Satangel]

Looks very good, but also kinda gay to me

But that's usually the case with Final Fantasy games....

 

[Maktub]

To me, it looks awful. FFS, I thought the screens were from GrandiaII

 

[Jei]

One of the things I like about the Tales series is the character design... but the characters in this game look terrible

IF it's incredibly fun and has enjoyable music and a good storyline then maybe I'm going to play it...

 

[Lumstar]

Looks like Tales crossed with a little DQ8. This could be amazing.

 

[Doomsday Forte]

'Tales-like'
turn-based
lol

 

[shansoft]

huh...

Luminous Arc dev team are the main developer..

the character design seem to be similar from Luminous Arc series and tales series....

looks quite amazing, beside the graphic...:S

this game should be on 360/PC/DS rather than Wii.....

 

[Ashsurazenucu]

The character designer is Kenichi Yoshida, who's probably famous for doing the character designs in Eureka Seven, and I think that's the only thing he's really done (aside from technical stuff like keynote animation and whatnot) which explains why I thought I was looking at Dominic while browsing the official website's character page.

 

[DaRk_ViVi]

It's so similar to Eternal Sonata. O_O

 

[Pimpmynintendo]

Actually it doesn't look as bad as some of you made it out to be, the only picture I find to be horrible is the store(if that's even what it is)

 

[Hop2089]

Looks graphically generic, but the game could be good gameplay wise. Is it me or does the blond hero look like a recycled 3D version of Roland from Luminous Arc 2.

 

[GeekyGuy]

The term "PS2-tacular" comes to mind, as does "meh." Not too impressive. What's less impressive, though, is that the pickings are so slim on Wii -- not only in the RPG genre, but overall -- that some folks are actually excited for this game. And third parties wonder why they can't sell their products on the system.

 

[Kenshin Br]

Game needs online multiplayer mode.

Online mode?

This is not a FPS. LOL.