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Radiant Historia - Screw Destiny! (Atlus Dream Team RPG)

KiTAKiTA Registered User regular
edited June 2011 in Games and Technology
Radiant Historia (ラジアントヒストリア Rajianto Hisutoria?) is a role-playing game developed and published by Atlus for the Nintendo DS.[1] The game's development team mostly consists of Atlus staff who previously worked on games like Persona 3, Strange Journey, Nocturne, and Etrian Odyssey games.[3] The development team also includes other members who had previously worked on Radiata Stories. Yoko Shimomura of Kingdom Hearts fame composed the soundtrack.[1] The game was released on November 3, 2010 in Japan, and will be released in North American on February 22, 2011[4]

So Atlus has decided to have the SMT, EO, and Radiata Stories guys work on a Time Travel RPG.

Why the hell is there no thread about this game?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD9FevMw1_o&feature=fvw

So what we have here is a DS RPG/sRPG mix (engine looks similarish to a turn based Mega Man Battle Network fight ending) with time travel on par with Chrono Trigger's.

It'll be out in a month, a week after Dragon Quest 6.

And just in case you think this might be some sorta linear... mess with Time Travel as a basic plot coupon, I give you this quick walkthrough from Atlus. Go ahead and watch it. The thread will wait:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFFPfgujnGw

Holy shit, right?

Anyone else excited about this one?

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  • KiTAKiTA Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Also, the soundtrack has a bit by Yuki Kajiura, and is awesome:
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsh1h-pbTrU&feature=related

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2SMJz3kwGk&feature=related

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  • TrippyJingTrippyJing Moses supposes his toeses are roses. But Moses supposes erroneously.Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Time traveling isn't really explored enough in videogames.

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  • TertieeTertiee Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    I've been looking forward to this game for awhile now. I hope the story and characters turn out well since an importer said it was very story heavy comparing it to Xenosaga/Xenogears.

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  • CygnusZCygnusZ Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    The game reviewed very well too. It got a 78 at mk2, which is pretty difficult to do.

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  • KamiKami Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    I am so, so excited for this. <3

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  • Raiden333Raiden333 Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    So I skipped the first video and watched the second one.

    I thought "Whoa, this is pretty cool" until 1:45.

    Then my jaw hit the fucking floor and I instantly squeezed this into my budget.

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  • Liquid GhostLiquid Ghost DO YOU HEAR THE VOICES, TOO?! Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    The best.

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  • harvestharvest By birthright, a stupendous badass.Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Damn that's pretty cool. The shots of combat look interesting with the way the player knocked all the enemies into the same space to hit them all. Plus, you know, time travel in a way that lets you fuck with events directly.

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  • KiTAKiTA Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Raiden333 wrote: »
    So I skipped the first video and watched the second one.

    I thought "Whoa, this is pretty cool" until 1:45.

    Then my jaw hit the fucking floor and I instantly squeezed this into my budget.

    This. I was like "huh, ok, it's Atlus, I'll get it" then I watched the second video as I was making this OP and the TVTropes page... and holy crap, they're actually doing Time Travel right. Like, going into alternate timelines to discover why things are going wrong in the other timelines, so you can go back and bend the other timelines back to the right path, or whatnot.

    I do sincerely hope the game has multiple endings, though, and maybe an extremely hard bonus dungeon / boss. With the time travel theme, you could just pick a timeline where everything goes to shit and keep going....

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  • BartholamueBartholamue Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Guess I'll be getting this one. I can't resist getting soundtrack CD's.

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  • FrozenzenFrozenzen Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    This looks really interesting.

    It's a good thing people make threads about games like this, hard to find information about in in europe unless you follow gaming news in general. Which I don't.

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  • C2BC2B SwitzerlandRegistered User regular
    edited January 2011
    It looks great so far. I wonder how it plays out in execution.

    It kinda seems that the gameplay happens in cutscenes and you don't control your charachter much directly/ not much exploring.

    Isn't a bad point for me though.

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  • KelorKelor Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Oh man, wow.

    So this just jumped up to the top of my list of things I am interested in.


    I am so glad the DS has allowed all these little RPGs to flourish.

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  • XagarathXagarath Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    So yet another interesting game I'm going to have to import.
    Who were the geese saying the 3DS being region-locked didn't matter much, again?

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  • C2BC2B SwitzerlandRegistered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Xagarath wrote: »
    So yet another interesting game I'm going to have to import.
    Who were the geese saying the 3DS being region-locked didn't matter much, again?

    Doesn't it say there that it comes out in NA on February 22?

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  • XagarathXagarath Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    C2B wrote: »
    Xagarath wrote: »
    So yet another interesting game I'm going to have to import.
    Who were the geese saying the 3DS being region-locked didn't matter much, again?

    Doesn't it say there that it comes out in NA on February 22?

    I live in Europe, where Atlus never release anything ever.

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  • FrozenzenFrozenzen Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    We're europeans.

    Half my DS library is imported, if it goes on like this I'll have to buy an american 3ds as well, which would be annoying.

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  • KelorKelor Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Xag lives in the UK and I live in Australia, where we are each probably looking at 6 month delay at best (very few of these niche titles make it out here) and would purchase it for somewhere in the vicinity of US $60-70.

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  • XagarathXagarath Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Alternately, we can import (which I do) and pay customs charges on top of the price of the game!

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  • FrozenzenFrozenzen Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Considering basically none of these games get a release in sweden I just import stuff I want day 1 from the US.

    And as awesome as a time travel focused RPG looks, it also looks very niche.

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  • KelorKelor Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Xagarath wrote: »
    Alternately, we can import (which I do) and pay customs charges on top of the price of the game!

    We only get taxes on anything over the value of $1000, so I buy all my PC stuff from you guys now!

    My Wii is a US one, which I'm glad of because our VC is terrible compared the US one. I plan on importing a 3DS (probably after the first revision) so I don't miss out on the little gems like this.

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  • PureauthorPureauthor Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Lookin' forward to this.

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  • Andy JoeAndy Joe We claim the land for the highlord! The AdirondacksRegistered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Getting this and Tactics Ogre. It will be a bonanza of time-traveling RPG goodness.

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  • RenzoRenzo Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Glad someone started this thread. Saw the time travel video a few days ago and I think I'm sold.

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  • KiTAKiTA Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Frozenzen wrote: »
    It's a good thing people make threads about games like this, hard to find information about in in europe unless you follow gaming news in general. Which I don't.

    Nah-ah-ah -- I get the feeling this went completely under the radar. Which is why I made the thread.

    Atlus titles do that a lot. See also: Disgaea. I preordered it, went in to get it, and the Gamestop guys were like "How the hell did you know about this? Everyone and their mother has been in to buy it, and we got like 2 copies outside of your preorder."

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  • KuratosuKuratosu Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Really looking forward to this one.

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  • vagrant_windsvagrant_winds Overworked Mysterious Eldritch Horror Hunter XX Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    My body is ready.

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  • DartboyDartboy Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Wow, this looks cool. I'm glad it's not a PSP exclusive.

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  • XagarathXagarath Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Dartboy wrote: »
    Wow, this looks cool. I'm glad it's not a PSP exclusive.

    I'm kind of pleasantly surprised on that one.

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  • Chrono HelixChrono Helix Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    This has been on my radar for ages.

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  • KiTAKiTA Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Quick playthrough of some random stuff in the Japanese version (no clue on if any of it is a spoiler, seems to have a boss fight in it):

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I09LhhITxsY

    Also -- Stock, or Stocke? I'm seeing both.

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  • TaminTamin Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    well, the gana shows sutokku

    which my dictionary shows as 'stock', as in 'I have this in stock".

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  • ElvenshaeElvenshae Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Atlus are the best kind of developers; I've got ... uh ... 6 games from them (either as devs or pubs)? And they're all fantastic.

    Soon, it will be 7. (Or, at least, current_collection++, in the event that I don't own 6 games from them.)

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  • KiTAKiTA Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    As a general rule, I buy every Atlus title that looks like an RPG. "The rule" hasn't let me down yet.

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  • TeriferinTeriferin Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Definitely snagging this. Probably won't have time to play it for awhile, though :(

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  • Ragnar DragonfyreRagnar Dragonfyre Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Wow... I might just have to dust off the ol' DS for this one.

    As always, I wish this was on iOS, but no matter. I absolutely love how many choices you get to make in this game. I'm somewhat intimidated though, looks like it might almost be too deep. I hope I can make the time to play this!

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  • KiTAKiTA Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Do you think the iOS devices could handle an RPG like this?

    (Serious question -- I'm trying to be bothered enough to learn Cocos2D and Objective C to make my first magnum opus -- a SaGa inspired Roguelike.)

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  • Lenore03Lenore03 Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    If I imported this, I'd only be able to play it on my DS phat. That wouldn't be doing DAT MUSIC justice.

    Those are some good tunes.

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  • RenzoRenzo Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    KiTA wrote: »
    Do you think the iOS devices could handle an RPG like this?

    (Serious question -- I'm trying to be bothered enough to learn Cocos2D and Objective C to make my first magnum opus -- a SaGa inspired Roguelike.)

    I think so:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDvPIhCd8N4

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  • BasilBasil Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Holy shit.

    Sold.

    KiTA you are a gentleman and a scholar.

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