We take the much-anticipated Arc Rise Fantasia for a spin.

Ignition set Arc Rise Fantasia’s release date as July 27, a week after the game ships to stores. Confusing? You bet.

L’arc’s fight against the feldragons is almost here. Ignition set July 20th as the day the game ships to stores.

“The voice acting, to put it lightly, has gotten less than favorable reactions,” I said to Shane Bettenhausen, New Business Development Director at Ignition, during an E3 meeting.

Imageepoch, the studio behind Luminous Arc, 7th Dragon, and Arc Rise Fantasia, are in search of a new RPG programmer.

Meet L’Arc friends and the cast of Arc Rise Fantasia including Prince Alf, comic relief sidekick Niko, clueless Ryfia, and flirtatious Leslie.

Last month, Ignition announced they were going to dub Arc Rise Fantasia instead of leaving the original voice acting. Here are the results…

The Wii has a decent selection of role playing games – Xenoblade, Tales of Graces, and The Last Story come to mind. We’re not sure when or if those games are leaving Japan, but Arc Rise Fantasia is.

Final retail build of Arc Rise Fantasia to be dub-only.

Ironically, the soundtrack to Arc Rise now costs more than the game itself.

Nintendo has a different take on budget reprints. For Wii games, Nintendo’s Everyone’s Recommendation Selection is based solely on acclaim from Nintendo Channel voters.

As of today, Arc Rise Fantasia will be handled by Ignition Entertainment. After hearing the news I contacted Ken Berry, Director of Publishing at Xseed.

The deal between Marvelous and Xseed must have changed since Ignition Entertainment is now bringing Arc Rise Fantasia to North America.

Little King’s Story is on deck. Beyond that Marvelous has many more games coming to North America and I asked Marvelous rapid fire questions about them.