Arc the Lad II and Arc Arena coming to PSN next week
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GaijinWorks founder Victor Ireland recently dove headfirst into the NeoGAF forums to reveal some release details for a pair of titles (recently hinted at by ESRB listings) which his company will be localizing for the U.S. PSN: Arc the Lad II and Arc Arena. The two games, which only ever made it stateside in the Arc the Lad Collection for PSOne, will hit the PlayStation Store next Tuesday, November 23.
Arc the Lad II will be available to purchase for $5.99, while Arc Arena -- an offshoot from the series where monsters you collect in Arc II can be fought in tournaments for prizes -- can be purchased in a bundle with Arc II for $8.99. For a brief moment, we debated between which of these two versions we would spring for, then reread the words "monsters," "collect," "tournament" and "prizes," and then the decision was pretty much made for us.
Arc the Lad II will be available to purchase for $5.99, while Arc Arena -- an offshoot from the series where monsters you collect in Arc II can be fought in tournaments for prizes -- can be purchased in a bundle with Arc II for $8.99. For a brief moment, we debated between which of these two versions we would spring for, then reread the words "monsters," "collect," "tournament" and "prizes," and then the decision was pretty much made for us.
Reader Comments (12)
Posted: Nov 20th 2010 8:03PM emperorzeroxx said
Arc the lad 2 was one of my favorite playstation games, great to see it on psn.
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Posted: Nov 20th 2010 8:14PM mikemantia said
The first two Arc the Lads were great when they came out and still have a vintage charm to them. I'd recommend picking them up.
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Posted: Nov 20th 2010 8:21PM Chibilaharl said
@Guts
i miss working designs; they always did collectors editions for games and really made editions worthy of being called collectors editions, unlike the current trend of CE's and LE's we see today; and i am glad to see vic bringing these games back
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i miss working designs; they always did collectors editions for games and really made editions worthy of being called collectors editions, unlike the current trend of CE's and LE's we see today; and i am glad to see vic bringing these games back
Posted: Nov 21st 2010 12:09AM iluvrice2 said
@Guts
I just want to commend you on your great post that sums up pretty much all my feelings towards Vic. I remember how he used to blast Sega on the Sega forums waaaaay back in the day.
WD deserved to go out of business with the way they ran things. Two Final Fantasy games were produced and localized (flat out MADE) in the time it took Vic to localize Lunar 2.
The "excellent" voice acting was also exposed once more JRPGs started to make their way to our shores with cut scenes. All of a sudden, the janitor's mike skills weren't so impressive anymore.
We really have Atlus to thank for liberating games from WD's grasp. When WD got a game license, it was essentially oh crap, we're not going to see that game for 5 years. Atlus showed that high quality localizations could be done in a year.
In summary, excellent post, WD got everything that was coming to it although I will always appreciate their early Sega CD contributions, and good luck to Vic in his future endeavors as long as he doesn't hold quality game licenses for hostage for years at a time. Whatever happened to Samurai Showdown RPG anyways.
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I just want to commend you on your great post that sums up pretty much all my feelings towards Vic. I remember how he used to blast Sega on the Sega forums waaaaay back in the day.
WD deserved to go out of business with the way they ran things. Two Final Fantasy games were produced and localized (flat out MADE) in the time it took Vic to localize Lunar 2.
The "excellent" voice acting was also exposed once more JRPGs started to make their way to our shores with cut scenes. All of a sudden, the janitor's mike skills weren't so impressive anymore.
We really have Atlus to thank for liberating games from WD's grasp. When WD got a game license, it was essentially oh crap, we're not going to see that game for 5 years. Atlus showed that high quality localizations could be done in a year.
In summary, excellent post, WD got everything that was coming to it although I will always appreciate their early Sega CD contributions, and good luck to Vic in his future endeavors as long as he doesn't hold quality game licenses for hostage for years at a time. Whatever happened to Samurai Showdown RPG anyways.
Posted: Nov 21st 2010 10:47AM littletmart said
The best part about these games is that they're playable on PS3 AND PSP. Nintendo could learn a thing or two from Sony's digital download business model.
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Posted: Nov 21st 2010 11:03AM ThePenIsMightier said
@littletmart
I'm glad they offer digital downloads, I really hate it when it's some other kind of download.
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I'm glad they offer digital downloads, I really hate it when it's some other kind of download.
Posted: Nov 21st 2010 1:36PM gatotsu911 said
@littletmart
YES. That is the one thing I hate about Virtual Console. I REALLY hope Nintendo takes a page out of Sony's cross-platform book next generation.
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YES. That is the one thing I hate about Virtual Console. I REALLY hope Nintendo takes a page out of Sony's cross-platform book next generation.
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