It is no secret that this hardware generation has been disastrous for RPGs. The flow of excellent RPGs that started on the SNES, then increased to a flood on the PS1 and PS2, has been shut off nearly completely. With once-great, now-fallen RPG Overlord Square-Enix declaring that ‘it is too expensive to make RPGs in HD,’ the slack in the market has barely been picked up, and then by companies like Gust and Nippon Ichi that cater to extremely niche fanbases. Gone are the days of good RPGs that don’t have Roman numerals in their titles… or so I thought.
“Arc Rise Fantasia” (“ARF”) is not a sequel and it comes from Image Epoch, a developer that has only been around since 2007 and whose previous claim to fame consists mostly of a trilogy of TRPGs on the DS that seem suspicio... |
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