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Luminous Arc Infinity announced for PS Vita
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Hero of Legend
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No mention of Imageepoch, wonder if this is in-house only. Criminal Girls Vita was similar IIRC.
clay_ghost
Member
Vita getting exclusives DS sequel.
Hours Left
Member
Oh my, this is very interesting.
I'm still pissed off we never got the third DS game in English. Figures the first one that actually lets you form a gay relationship is the one that's left untranslated. >_<
I'm still pissed off we never got the third DS game in English. Figures the first one that actually lets you form a gay relationship is the one that's left untranslated. >_<
Pennywise83
Banned
Might this be multi with 3DS?
Kresnik258
Member
Well, this was surprising.
Is Imageepoch still a thing ? Did they end up saving the JRPG genre ?
Hero of Legend
Member
Hey maybe, looks kinda iffy graphically.
. I played the first 2 DS games to death and half of part 3 before the language barrier got to me. In any case I'll still import the shit out of this when it comes out.Lumines you mean? Uhhh honestly it doesn't sound very similar imo
imageepoch self-publish their games now and their games tend to sell quite well despite the poor quality. lol
What.
Luminous Arc Infinity is developed by Felistella. The dev is made up of ex-Flight Plan folks, and they did the Summon Night 3 and 4 ports for PSP and developed Summon Night 5. They also worked on Neptunia Rebirth and Rebirth 2.
ImageEpoch might be on death's door maybe.
Hours Left
Member
You can get a romantic ending with one of your male teammates in LA3. (Dino)
Anyone seen the trailer anywhere yet? The one on Gematsu is set to private.
Wouldn't be surprised if most of the developers worth a crap at ImageEpoch left awhile back and now they can't really sell projects to anyone now. They seemed somewhat promising earlier on but in the end... meh. We didn't even get what were reputedly their best games.
Hibiki Kurosawa
Member
Unexpected, but cool news. Always nice to have more Japanese SRPGs, and on the Vita to boot.
Mechanized
Member
Really liked LA1 on DS. Though how shitty the animation was, was a real downer. Everything had like 2-3 frames of animation lol.
Not really digging chibi 3D.
Not really digging chibi 3D.
We never got Sol Trigger, which actually looked interesting ( ImageEpoch actually filed a trademark for it in English and Japanese) .
And people have been begging Aksys to localize Fate/Extra CCC.
We got Arc Rise Fantasia, which is easily their best console RPG, but it got a horrible localization.
They just released Toushin Toshi for 3DS in January (their best jrpg to date, IMO). I don't expect another JRPG from them for another 6-12 months, but I'd be surprised if they are not working on something. I wonder if they have shifted development to Vita and/or PS4 (which could delay things a bit), as there is certainly an audience for their games on those platforms.
Hero of Legend
Member
They're making a SRPG for their 10th Anniversary IIRC, money's on 3DS after self-publishing two games on 3DS (Toshin Toshi and SoniPro).
SoniPro really suffered sales wise due to the CONSTANT delays I would think.
AcademicSaucer
Member
I dont feel bad about those kind of games bombing on 3ds, didnt island days and new loveplus + also bombed ?
tim_pkmn89
Member
Wait this isn't the music puzzle game at all
Infernal Monkey
Member
Yes, but Island Days isn't what you think it is.
That was my first reaction to the news too XD I didn't even realise there was a LA3 (although it sounds like it wasn't localised?). I never made it through LA2 cos I didn't like the engagement/marriage system it introduced. I'd prefer it if the game just chose a girl for me/the MC to end up with like the first game. But the screenshot in that article looked kinda cute so I'm a liiiitle interested this time.
Hours Left
Member
Thanks.
Not loving the new character designs. I wish this looked closer to the 3 DS games.
DaSorcerer7
Member
Didn't realize there luminous arc games on 3ds?
Anyways I prefer the 2d sprites of DS games.
SliceSabre
Banned
I adored the other Luminous Arc games. Disappointed I never got to play 3 since it wasn't localized. Hopefully that won't be the case with this one.
Pennywise83
Banned
SoniPro sold really bad on PS3 as well.
Well they currently have nothing announced at all, and they've been pretty quiet in the last couple of years. I can't see them doing terribly well. Maybe the 100k or so they get for every game is enough to keep their publishing efforts afloat though. It's still laughable how they tried to make a big splash initially and then fell flat on their face. There was supposed to be a big console Type-Moon project too, which got delayed and delayed. I guess it eventually got canned. Lol.
From the PSN thread
First Luminous Arc Infinity screens:
Kresnik258
Member
As a genuine question, what's the big deal about Imageepoch? Were they composed of industry vets or something when they first started?
They've always seemed like a slightly-bigger-than-otaku-fanbase developer (until recently, when they're barely even selling to that fanbase) who haven't made anything particularly noteworthy. Or from what I've played, particularly better than the likes of Falcom or Gust.
They've always seemed like a slightly-bigger-than-otaku-fanbase developer (until recently, when they're barely even selling to that fanbase) who haven't made anything particularly noteworthy. Or from what I've played, particularly better than the likes of Falcom or Gust.
Hours Left
Member
DaSorcerer7
Member
Toushin Toshi also didn't really do that well. It only managed to sell 22.4K copies according to Geimin.net.
Pennywise83
Banned
Well, their expectations were around 50k, which seems doable (22k is the first week).