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Ignition Announces Arc Rise Fantasia for Wii

by Pedro Hernandez - October 22, 2009, 12:06 pm EDT
Total comments: 14

The Wii- exclusive RPG will soon see release in North America, thanks to Ignition.

Ignition Entertainment and Marvelous Entertainment have announced the release of Arc Rise Fantasia, a turn-based RPG exclusive to the Wii.

Players will take on the role of a mercenary named L'Arc to defend the Meridian Empire from an invasion of evil creatures. Once players have their party members together, they can summon friendly creatures to perform attacks while exploring an overworld filled with adventure and lots of dungeons to explore.

Arc Rise Fantasia will be released in the summer of 2010.

IGNITION ENTERTAINMENT AND MARVELOUS ENTERTAINMENT BRING

ARC RISE FANTASIA EXCLUSIVELY TO Wii

Turn-Based RPG Gives Wii Owners The Power To Party-Up

and Summon Deadly Creatures

Glendale, CA – October 22, 2009 – Ignition Entertainment Ltd., a UTV Enterprise, a worldwide publisher and developer of videogames and Marvelous Entertainment announced that Arc Rise Fantasia is releasing in Summer 2010 exclusively for the Nintendo Wii.

Arc Rise Fantasia, winner of the “Best Wii RPG” from IGN at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) 2009, is a new turn-based RPG with a beautiful, anime-inspired Japanese art style. Players will jump into the shoes of L’Arc, a calm and composed mercenary, who sets out to defend the Meridian Empire from an impending invasion of ferocious creatures. After assembling a party of friends, each with a unique set of abilities, players will embark on a perilous journey across an overworld filled with deadly enemies and treacherous dungeons. While strategically queuing up attacks, players can summon mystical creatures and work with their party members to execute massive attacks.

“We are absolutely thrilled to bring Arc Rise Fantasia to a western audience,” said Shane Bettenhausen, New Business Development Director of Ignition Entertainment. “It’s an ambitious Japanese role-playing game with deep gameplay, top-notch production values, and an unforgettable story line--Wii owners have been pining for a massive fantasy epic and their patience will definitely be rewarded.”

“In Arc Rise Fantasia we’ve implemented a fun and quick paced battle system to give gamers an enjoyable RPG experience,” said Hiroyuki Kanemaru of Image Epoch. “Ignition Entertainment has a great track record with bringing established Japanese experiences to new western audiences and we’re delighted to be able to team up with them to publish Arc Rise Fantasia.”

Additional information about the game can be found at the game’s official website:www.arcrisefantasia.com, on Twitter: www.twitter.com/arcrisefantasia and on Facebook: www.facebook.com/arcrisefantasia

Talkback

broodwarsOctober 22, 2009

Well, that explains why this game went dark for so long.  Man, though, I'm starting to wonder if XSEED's even trying these days considering this isn't the first title they've lost to Ignition.

XSEED seems to have its hands full with many other titles. After their E3 presentation to us, I really wondered if they had the resources to localize and publish so many games. I would like to know the story of how Muramasa and now Arc Rise Fantasia were picked up by Ignition after being publicly announced by XSEED.

Nevertheless, I am very much anticipating this game! I hope it doesn't get crowded out by FFXIII, which should be released within a few months of Arc Rise.

The only thing I can conclude is that XSEED got them very cheap, knowing they probably didn't have the resources, and then sold the rights to Ignition once they decided they couldn't localize those titles. Odds are they were able to charge more than they paid, as the games became more well-known since they secured them (in no small part due to the bump in awareness these titles got from back when XSEED announced then).

GoldenPhoenixOctober 22, 2009

Well seeing that Muramasa pushed 30,000 units its first month looks like Xseed screwed up by selling the rights.

We'll see. If Fragile or Sky Crawlers goes gang-busters maybe it was the right call.

Quote from: Crimm

The only thing I can conclude is that XSEED got them very cheap, knowing they probably didn't have the resources, and then sold the rights to Ignition once they decided they couldn't localize those titles. Odds are they were able to charge more than they paid, as the games became more well-known since they secured them (in no small part due to the bump in awareness these titles got from back when XSEED announced then).

I don't think so.  They seemed pretty upset that they lost the title and didn't want to go into specifics.  It sounds more like Ignition is able to throw their weight and money around; XSEED is pretty small.

Flames_of_chaosLukasz Balicki, Staff AlumnusOctober 22, 2009

Quote from: GoldenPhoenix

Well seeing that Muramasa pushed 30,000 units its first month looks like Xseed screwed up by selling the rights.

XSEED didn't sell the rights. While localizing Muramasa Ignition bought the publishing rights from Marvelous who owns the IP.

ShyGuyOctober 22, 2009

Quote from: Jonny]XSEED


Trust in Shane "mangod" Bettenhausen, Jonny.

Quote from: GoldenPhoenix

Well seeing that Muramasa pushed 30,000 units its first month looks like Xseed screwed up by selling the rights.

Wait, WAIT. I found an article on GoNintendo which stated the following: "Sales reception
‘Muramasa’ sold almost 30K units week one in Japan (putting it in at number two, all-formats) and 52,000 week one US (beating Dead Space Extraction)." http://www.mcvuk.com/features/561/Defries-Is-retail-duming-down

Am I missing something?

If XSEED already had the rights then Ignition would have needed to par the IP holder so much money that they would be willing to not only refund XSEED, but also pay any contract fees.

Of course, XSEED could also be guilty of a cardinal sin: announcing things before the ink is dry.

TJ SpykeOctober 22, 2009

Quote from: ShyGuy

and 52,000 week one US (beating Dead Space Extraction)." http://www.mcvuk.com/features/561/Defries-Is-retail-duming-down

Considering Dead Space: Extraction only managed to sell 9K copies in September, beating it in sales is not a big accomplishment.

Is Ignition Entertainment a tiny company, or did they just announce this and only about to start translating? 8 months seems like a long time (even longer if they have already started localizing it).

Mop it upOctober 23, 2009

The Wii seems lacking in RPGs so I wonder if this will be any good.

Flames_of_chaosLukasz Balicki, Staff AlumnusOctober 23, 2009

Quote from: TJ

Quote from: ShyGuy

and 52,000 week one US (beating Dead Space Extraction)." http://www.mcvuk.com/features/561/Defries-Is-retail-duming-down

Is Ignition Entertainment a tiny company, or did they just announce this and only about to start translating? 8 months seems like a long time (even longer if they have already started localizing it).

Ignition a fairly small company owned by a big conglomerate (UTV) and they are a company that likes to throw money around. Ignition doen't have a in-house translation team so they outsource it to a company called Entalize. Entalize did the translations for Lux Pain, Muramasa (partially, the parts not done by XSEED), and Nostalgia.

If XSEED already had the rights then Ignition would have needed to par the IP holder so much money that they would be willing to not only refund XSEED, but also pay any contract fees.

Of course, XSEED could also be guilty of a cardinal sin: announcing things before the ink is dry.

broodwarsOctober 23, 2009

Well, that answers that: Marvelous decided to re-sell the localization to Ignition.  If the game still comes out, all well and good but this really hurts my overall impression of XSEED.  At this point, based on the pattern that's starting to form I'd say we can just assume from here on out that anytime XSEED licenses something on Wii that they'll spend a great deal of time localizing it; go dark on it for a while; and that it'll eventually end up with Ignition anyway.

StratosOctober 23, 2009

This just reassures my stance that I need to buy all XSeed games I can, and fast.

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