Spotlight on Luminous Arc
GameSpot recently spent some quality time with Luminous Arc, the strategy RPG Atlus is bringing to the US in August, and things are looking good. Of course, all we really need to know is that Luminous Arc offers online battles -- a feature missing in other popular DS strategy games -- and even if it were low quality, we'd probably be lining up to give it a go. Character, story, gameplay? That's just gravy. Give us our WiFi battles!Luckily for us, Luminous Arc seems to have it all: an interesting story, both new and familiar SRPG mechanics, and a choice between stylus-based controls and traditional controls. The only issue the folks at GameSpot could find to really pick on -- in this early preview, at least -- is that players can't rotate the camera, which can occasionally lead to some targeting issues. The build available to them didn't seem to have finished voice acting, either, which we assume means that the game will in fact be dubbed. But let's not be picky here. Because it's Atlus, the localization will be effective, and we'll get right into managing everyone's relationships. We're just glad to hear that we'll probably have fun while doing so.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Kristi @ May 31st 2007 7:06PM
I'm looking forward to this game more than any other right now, it looks great. Thanks for pointing out the Gamespot review.
idioteraser @ Jun 1st 2007 7:22AM
Crass this is dealing with the preview us port that is still ongoing. Do not mention ROMs. No one wants to import especially in a language they don't understand in a text heavy rpg.
Crass @ Jun 1st 2007 5:02PM
When you say "Port" you realize you are using the wrong term? Im not a grammar nazi but do you understand the NFS (or even know what the NFS is, have you ever decompiled a NDS rom? if not then STFU immediately) Do you have any expirence in the past with Japanese to US games? Honestly who cares if I used the ROM word, people will figure out how to play ROMs on their DS's eventually (hell I dont see you complaining about the homebrew articles on this site, you realize to play thoes are against Nintendo's policies right?)
Trust me, there will not be any significant diffrences between the english and japanese rom, besides the translation and perhaps any minor bug fixes they find. There will be no extra graphics, or features, or gameplay elements, or enemies or anything that isnt already in the Japanese rom. I suggested people check it out (or look for vids of the jap version) if they want to see what the game is like when it comes out to english. I did the same with Revenant Wings and Front Mission 1st, I just want to see what hte game is like before hand and then ill patiently wait for the english release.