Arc Rise Fantasia and Luminous Arc both have “arc” in their name, but they are not related. Even though they are separate entities a few familiar faces from Luminous Arc found their way into Arc Rise Fantasia.

Marvelous is pushing pre-orders of Arc Rise Fantasia with a massive bonus. Reserve the game in Japan to get a Design Works book filled with illustrations, enigmatic “special” book, and a soundtrack CD. Yasunori Mitsuda who worked on Chrono Trigger and Xenosaga will also compose music for Arc Rise Fantasia. Pre-order gifts are common in [...]

Arc Rise Fantasia, an RPG developed by Imageepoch and published by Marvelous for Wii, is nearing completion. Japan will see the game in stores on June 4 in Japan. Xseed and Marvelous USA will publish Arc Rise Fantasia in North America this year, but a specific date has not been announced.   When we spoke [...]

Back at Tokyo Game Show I caught with Ryoei Mikage, the President of Imageepoch, and Hideyuki Mizutani, Operating Officer at Marvelous Entertainment. We talked about a lot of things. You already know about one of them. We touched on Arc Rise Fantasia’s story, the Arc Rise Fantasia series, and Imageepoch’s future projects. Yes, the Arc [...]

Marvelous and Xseed are teaming up again to bring Flower, Sun, and Rain and Arc Rise Fantasia in North America 2009. I tried out the battle portion yesterday and similar to Tales of Symphonia there aren’t any random battles. Enemies appear on the screen. You choose who or what you want to fight. I ended [...]

Xseed, we know you’re busy with Retro Game Challenge, Muramasa: The Demon Blade, and a rebalanced version of Valhalla Knights 2 which comes out this week. After you’re done with those please pick up Arc Rise Fantasia. We know Marvelous is thinking about working with you to publish Arc Rise Fantasia in the USA thanks [...]

While both titles share the word Arc, Image Epoch’s two games are not in the same universe. Luminous Arc has players hunt witches and oversee isometric, tactical RPG battles on the DS. In Arc Rise Fantasia you hunt impure dragons and battle monsters with the Trinity Battle system on the Wii.   The initial twist [...]