Author Topic: ASH Rated by ESRB (Read 10846 times)

Nick DiMola · « **on:** May 22, 2008, 12:35:25 PM »

Nintendo looks to bring Hironobu Sakaguchi's DS strategy RPG to America.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/newsArt.cfm?artid=15993

Nintendo's ASH was rated E 10+ today by the ESRB. Since acquiring an ESRB rating is a typical step in gaining release for the American market, ASH is probably being localized into the English language.

Listing from the ESRB Website

Released in Japan last October, ASH is a strategy RPG developed by Racijn / Mistwalker Studios and directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi, father of the Final Fantasy series. It features full voice acting, FMV sequences, and pre-rendered visuals for its battles. The game garnered fairly strong reviews upon release, receiving a 33/40 from Famitsu for instance, but achieved relatively weak sales.

ASH (short for Archaic Sealed Heat) chronicles the journey of Queen Aisha to unravel the mystery behind an ancient flame. This flame is responsible for destroying her kingdom and transforming her people into living ash.

Currently there is no official release date for ASH, nor are there any details about release in other territories.

Nick DiMola · « **Reply #1 on:** May 22, 2008, 12:38:28 PM »

Glad to see this coming to America, I will probably take a closer look at it when some more official information is provided.

Kairon · « **Reply #2 on:** May 22, 2008, 02:57:34 PM »

I was SO ready to instabuy this. Then I saw that it was an SRPG... T_T

Infernal Monkey · « **Reply #3 on:** May 23, 2008, 02:03:53 AM »

Oh goody, another SRPG, just what the DS has been lacking!

ATimson · « **Reply #4 on:** May 23, 2008, 03:37:33 AM »

Quote from: Infernal Monkey on May 23, 2008, 02:03:53 AM

Oh goody, another SRPG, just what the DS has been lacking!

With no Fire Emblem game yet, yes, it's been lacking them.

KDR_11k · « **Reply #5 on:** May 23, 2008, 07:54:36 AM »

There's no DS fire emblem?

ATimson · « **Reply #6 on:** May 23, 2008, 01:16:52 PM »

Quote from: KDR_11k on May 23, 2008, 07:54:36 AM

There's no DS fire emblem?

Not yet. One was announced late last year (set in the universe of the first three games; it's been assumed to be a remake of the first or third, based on screenshots showing Marth, but I don't think it's been officially announced), but there's been little news about it, much less a release.

Kytim89 · « **Reply #7 on:** July 02, 2010, 04:52:18 PM »

I have heared that the cartridge for this game is around one GB in total size. I was wondering if they could release it in America as a 3DS title since those games for the 3DS will be around 2 GB each. It just makes sense.

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #8 on:** July 02, 2010, 04:54:15 PM »

Quote from: Kytim89 on July 02, 2010, 04:52:18 PM

I have heared that the cartridge for this game is around one GB in total size. I was wondering if they could release it in America as a 3DS title since those games for the 3DS will be around 2 GB each. It just makes sense.

BeautifulShy · « **Reply #9 on:** July 02, 2010, 04:55:16 PM »

I thought this was a new topic.Thanks Kytim for getting my hopes up.

TJ Spyke · « **Reply #10 on:** July 02, 2010, 10:18:20 PM »

Quote from: Kytim89 on July 02, 2010, 04:52:18 PM

I have heared that the cartridge for this game is around one GB in total size. I was wondering if they could release it in America as a 3DS title since those games for the 3DS will be around 2 GB each. It just makes sense.

Gb, as in Gigabit; not GB, as in Gigabyte. ASH: Archaic Sealed Heat is 2 Gigabits, which is about 250 Megabytes. The largest DS game is the upcoming Level-5/Studio Ghibli game Ni no Kuni: Shikkoku no Madōshi, which will be about 512 MB.

Stratos · « **Reply #11 on:** July 07, 2010, 03:28:47 PM »

So DS cards can now equal N64 game sizes.

I had hopes this was finally going to come out. It's been over two years so I've given up hope.

RIP ASH and Soma Bringer and Tact of Magic...

TJ Spyke · « **Reply #12 on:** July 07, 2010, 05:39:47 PM »

Quote from: Stratos on July 07, 2010, 03:28:47 PM

So DS cards can now equal N64 game sizes.

"now" equal N64? The largest N64 game was 64MB (which was done by only two games: Conker's Bad Fur Day and Resident Evil 2), so DS passed it years ago.

broodwars · « **Reply #13 on:** July 07, 2010, 05:47:43 PM »

Quote from: TJ Spyke on July 07, 2010, 05:39:47 PM

Quote from: Stratos on July 07, 2010, 03:28:47 PM
So DS cards can now equal N64 game sizes.

"now" equal N64? The largest N64 game was 64MB (which was done by only two games: Conker's Bad Fur Day and Resident Evil 2), so DS passed it years ago.

I could have sworn Ogre Battle 64 ~~was 512 MB. Or was it 512 Mb?~~

EDIT: Nope, 40 MB. Anyway, can we let this thread die now? Being reminded of yet another promising DS game that never left Japan is just depressing.

TJ Spyke · « **Reply #14 on:** July 07, 2010, 05:53:02 PM »

Must have been Mb, a lot of N64 games sizes were described in megabits rather than megabytes. The N64 never had a larger game than 64MB.

Stratos · « **Reply #15 on:** July 07, 2010, 07:03:06 PM »

It was Mb then. For whatever reason the numbers are burned into my memory. Yoshi's Story was 128, Ocarina of Time was 256, Resident Evil was 512.

Mop it up · « **Reply #16 on:** July 07, 2010, 07:55:25 PM »

It still amazes me that Super Mario 64 is 8MB, and yet it has similar size and scope as recent games like Super Mario Galaxy 2, which can use up to 4.7GB. That could mean any number of things...

KDR_11k · « **Reply #17 on:** July 08, 2010, 04:18:16 AM »

That means it looks ugly as hell with a few blurry textures plastered all over its blocky environments.

MegaByte · « **Reply #18 on:** July 08, 2010, 05:21:52 AM »

Most of the space in the recent games is used up by (poorly compressed) movies and (streamed) music. For instance, SMG2 takes up 3GB less than SMG1 because it doesn't have movies. Take out the music, and you're only left with 500MB.

ThePerm · « **Reply #19 on:** July 08, 2010, 05:22:58 AM »

it means that mario had like 50 polygons and small stretched textures in smb64 and mario in mario galaxy has like 4000 polygons and a 2-4MB texture, the trees are not blurry sprites, plus the music was really simple midis in 64, whereas it was orchestrated in galaxy. I could go on and on...it all adds up eventually.

Stratos · « **Reply #20 on:** July 08, 2010, 06:08:02 AM »

Quote from: ThePerm on July 08, 2010, 05:22:58 AM

I could go on and on...it all adds up eventually.

Sounds like a motto that Kojima lives by. Wasn't he the first to run out of room on a Blue-Ray?

TJ Spyke · « **Reply #21 on:** July 08, 2010, 11:39:49 AM »

Blu-ray (well, technically Blu-ray Disc).

And that's largely because he didn't bother compressing movies or music.

Mop it up · « **Reply #22 on:** July 08, 2010, 05:33:26 PM »

I knew it meant current games could have more content than they do. It really goes to show that a 50GB disc is currently largely unnecessary.

Ymeegod · « **Reply #23 on:** July 08, 2010, 06:10:13 PM »

Actually the DS did have a FE game, FE Shadow Dragon which was a remake of the orginal FE game. In fact the upcoming FE game is just another remake, FEIII, and should be coming this year I think.

Any date for Ash? Might look into it.

TJ Spyke · « **Reply #24 on:** July 08, 2010, 10:00:20 PM »

Quote from: Ymeegod on July 08, 2010, 06:10:13 PM

Actually the DS did have a FE game, FE Shadow Dragon which was a remake of the orginal FE game. In fact the upcoming FE game is just another remake, FEIII, and should be coming this year I think.

Any date for Ash? Might look into it.

Check the date for when the thread happened. Kytim89 bumped a 2-year old thread (from May 2008), that was before Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragons was announced.

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