so, luminous arc

Felix · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 4:51 am Post subject: so, luminous arc

this game is out in japan this week; i assume atlus will give it to us in english at some point.

the screenshots make it look.. really good. they remind me of how i used to look forward to any and every tactics-ogre-alike back before the days of nippon ichi.

any early impressions from 108 or anybody else of that ilk?

Toto · Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: Australia

tim is probably playing it he made a thread about it earlier.
like way earlier but still.

108 · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 6:03 am

comes out tomorrow, yeah.

my friend in yokohama somehow has it already and is home with a cold and he says it's really, really, really easy. he's only about six hours into it, he says.

"the dialogue is well-written."

that's nice. that's a good recent trend for videogames!

i'll probably buy it just for the mitsuda. we'll see what friday brings: probably me in akihabara with stabo, probably wandering toward the Good Store with no goal in mind, picking up luminous arc and seeing how much i like the box art . . .

man, the game has a hell of a nice visual style. and controllable using only the stylus! that's pretty great!

soon front mission, FF tactics, final fantasy xii REVENANT WINGSSSSSSSSSSS, SEIKEN DENSETSU HEROES OF MANA --

wow, shit, squeenix has FOUR strategy RPGs with stylus-only control schemes being releases in the next three months.

huh.

wish there was a port of ogre battle!

lol

really though, a port of tactics ogre would be cool.

anyway, yeah, luminous arc. it was alright at TGS.

can't wait for that mitsuda, though.

A++
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i hear you cannot see enemy attack range.

should we assume they know what they're doing?
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Ogre Battle with stylus-only control plz

no wait, FF Battle, hah
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luvcraft · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 4:25 pm

is the terrain 2D (a'la FFTA) or 3D (a'la Disgaea)?
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108 · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 7:06 am

Felix · Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 3:11 am

this just in:

luminous arc uses shonen-style cutscenes.

i don't like these. i'm getting used to them, because everyone and their brother seems to love them nowadays, but i don't like them.

also, i can't understand a word of this japanese rom. um; let's see. it uses actimagine, is a gigabit, and the music is nice.

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BalbanesBeoulve · Malicious Bastard Joined: 04 Dec 2006

I will purchase this game. The DS has been surprisingly dry in regards to SRPGs. Where the fuck is my Fire Emblem DS, Nintendo?

Felix · Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 6:05 pm

think disgaea, trauma center - two big portraits, and some text at the bottom.

this is as opposed to, say, ogre battle style. which i like a lot better, but i guess logically involves a bit more work.

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