Kotaku: luminous arc

Atlus Announces Luminous Arc 2 For North America

Leigh Alexander — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:20:00 MDT

In some news that will provoke squee-ing from fans of Japanese strategy RPGs, Atlus announced it's bringing Luminous Arc 2 on DS over to North America.

Atlus says the second installment features a "more refined" interface, rebalanced strategy features, touch-based play and "many more improvements." I never played the original Luminous Arc - did it need improving?

Also, every copy of the game comes packaged with a soundtrack CD, together in a "lovely" big ol' box. Yay for extras!

IGN got the exclusive reveal - screens over there.

Luminous Arc 2 Coming to America [IGN]

Week in Games: Madden '08 Edition

fdemarco — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 18:00:00 MDT

Lots of new titles this week, but for me nothing really holds much appeal. I might be tempted to check out Heroes of Mana if my wallet wasn't so empty. Guess I'll just have to wait for BioShock next week. Oh well, back to Resistance for more training...

Madden NFL 08 (X360, PSP, PS3, WII, PS2, MAC, GC, PC, XBOX, DS)
Crack open a brewski and invite the boys over for a few rounds.

Heroes of Mana (DS)
More Mana, more better.

Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon (DS)
As if the regular Harvest Moon wasn't fantasy enough

Luminous Arc (DS)
An RPG with witches, mages and fighters. Imagine that.

Dungeons & Dragons Tactics (PSP)
Be an uber nerd on your PSP. Unfortunately there are no twenty sided die to make you really feel at home.

Fatal Fury: Battle Archives Volume 1 (PS2)
Fatal Fury 1-3 plus Fatal Fury Special all on one disc.

Operation: Vietnam (DS)
It brings the excitement of war torn Vietnam to you DS!

1914 Shells of Fury (PC)
The world's first WWI Submarine sim.

Billy the Wizard: Rocket Broomstick Racing (WII)
They may as well have called him Gary Dotter.

Gallery: Luminous Arc DS

Mike Fahey — Mon, 14 May 2007 11:20:56 MDT

Luminous Arc is a strategy RPG that was released in Japan a few months ago. Now Atlus is bringing it to the states later this year, giving us SRPG fans something to do on our DS until Final Fantasy Tactics A2 comes out over here.

The game features voiced cutscenes and interludes with game mascot Kopin, who is adorable in his own onion-headed sort of way. Check out Kopin and friends in the latest batch of screenies below. Michael Fahey