ForwardWorks has officially announced Arc the Lad R, the first smartphone entry in Sony Interactive Entertainment’s 1995-released RPG tactical RPG series. It is set 10 years after Arc the Lad II. Pre-registration is available now in Japan.
The world was once saved by the sacrifice of a hero and a saint, but the calamity known as the “Great Disaster” shook the planet, half of the continent sunk into the ocean, and more than half of humanity was lost.
10 years after the Great Disaster, Haruto, a boy who belongs to the vigilante corps of Millmana, one of the countries pushing forward with reconstruction, encounters a mysterious girl named Mizuha following a certain event.
While the military empire Ardia was restoring civilization to its condition before the disaster and rapidly expanding its influence, monsters recovered momentum at the same time, and a threat known as the Divine Beasts came to surface. Dark clouds again hung over a world that appeared to be in smooth reconstruction.
The peace that should have come after that major sacrifice crumbled. “Protecting the world you left behind is a real pain of a job.” The meeting of a boy and girl, and a new conspiracy surrounding the world. Following an encounter with heroes of the past, a story of magnificent fate will set in motion again.
System
• A Grand Story Set After the Great Disaster – 10 years after the calamity known as the Great Disaster that lost half the world. A story told from the perspective of the vigilante corps’ Haruto. The heroes of the past will also appear as playable characters.
• The Series’ Tactical Battles Return – Fight in highly strategic tactical battles. Use simple controls to move the character, and clear the stage while reading counterattacks from the enemy. Form a party based on roles, and favorably progress the battle by using unique auto skills. Annihilate enemies with super flashy active skills.
• Develop Your Characters – Develop characters through strengthening and evolution. By mastering the Spirit Board, it will enter the “Awakening” stat and your abilities will be significantly enhanced. Additionally, you can reach further heights by equipping weapons and armor.
• Various Side Activities – There are all sorts of side activities, from the “Hunters Guild” to the “Arena” and more. The series’ familiar ruins, “The Ancient King’s Underground Ruins,” will also appear. What could be waiting 50 floors below the surface?
Staff
• Planning / Drafting / Game Design: Toshiro Tsuchida
• Scenario: Norihiko Yonesaka
• Art Drafting and Supervision: Eiji Koyama, Ryuichi Kunisue, Hiroshi Hayashi
• Sound: T-Square’s Masahiro Andoh
Alim, tri-Ace, and Shueisha Character Business Bureau announce Mist Gears for smartphones
Alim, tri-Ace, and Shueisha Character Business Bureau have announced Project Mist Gears, a new cross-media project consisting of a smartphone game, and novel. While each form of media will be a standalone work, they will align with each other as “gears” to shape the world of Mist Gears.
Here is an overview of the Mist Gears smartphone game, which is due out for iOS and Android this fall in Japan, via its official website:https://mistgears.jp/
Story
“The Day of Purgatory.”
On that day, the world was covered in mist—a mist of calamity—and people feared the worst natural disaster since the dawn of history.
The mist corroded the daily lives of the people. After that, the monsters appeared and humanity slowly went down the path of extinction.
“70 years after The Day of Purgatory.”
70 years have passed, and the Valks Kingdom has begun its world restoration project.
Grasping tightly at the hope that is the Mist Gears—.
System
Mist Gears is an innovative “environment RPG” in which the mist covering the world circulates by means of an environmental simulator. With elements like organic fields that change by means of the mist, “Mist Gear” weapons and armor that unleash the abilities of “Mist Cores,” which are skills that utilize the power of the mist, and up to four-person multiplayer, players will explore and adventure a ruined world with even deeper strategy and tactics.
—Enemies change in form and strength depending on the concentration and properties of the mist. Utilize the mist, and customize your weapons and armor.
—Predict, prepare, challenge, and at times avert—go on an adventure in a mist-infested world.
—Multiplayer gameplay and simple controls. And with Mist Core Overdrive, there are an infinite number of combinations. Attack strong enemies with original combos.
—Mist Gears’ multiplayer is based on MMO elements for stress-free play. Various elements are being implemented including easy matchmaking, commemorative photos, a “Gathering Base” to make friends, speech bubble communication, highly customizable character creation, and more.
—Build a “base” to support your adventure. Your base will offer equipment upgrades and customization, HP recovery, shortcuts between bases, item synthesis, mining to secure resources, and more.
—A deep story written by Hajime Tanaka with manga-like production illustrated by Youichi Amano.
An Android closed beta test will run from September 7 at 12:00 JST to September 10 at 12:00 JST. Sign-ups are available at the Mist Gears official website from today until August 31 at 23:59 JST.