Record of Agarest War gets some hardcore strategy on

by Nick Doerr { Jul 18th 2007 at 6:00PM }

If you've been eagerly anticipating the collaboration of three fairly large role-playing developers/publishers from Japan, you will have probably heard of Record of Agarest War. As a mixed effort between developers RED and Idea Factory, published by Compile Heart, you know you're getting two things: anime girls and role-playing. Everything else is just bonus, like a strategy RPG. If you want to see more on the game, look at the official site.

The screenshots released for this game are, well, only impressive to those actually looking for an SRPG. Two of the screens are admittedly throwaways, but one gives you the opportunity to see what to expect. The layout of the game seems to be a strange cross between Disgaea and Suikoden Tactics. Since both of those games were fantastic, we're not going to pass judgment on this game yet. We do wonder how much titles like these benefit from the move onto Blu-ray and HD gaming, though.

Tags: compile heart, CompileHeart, idea factory, IdeaFactory, record of agarest war, RecordOfAgarestWar, RED

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Popfrogs @ Jul 18th 2007 7:02PM

I love tactics games. I suck at chess but I'm generally good at stuff like this. I hope Squeenix gives us another FF:Tactics for the PS3. Don't worry about making it beautiful, the first one looked like dried-up dookie, just make the gameplay rock.

apease @ Jul 18th 2007 8:07PM

I'm sure it'll have the same benefits Disgaea had for being on the PS2 instead of the ps1. That is to say, none. Well, maybe it allowed for higher-res character shots during "cut-scenes". Now we can have HD still pictures during the dialog portions... yummy.

And something people tend to forget, is there is one big benefit to releasing a game on a new system that's not made it big yet - reduced competition. They really don't have to compete with the massive flood of ps2 rpgs, any ps3 owner that's collecting those is going to make a point to pick up a ps3 game that fits in their favorite genre, even if it's a game they might overlook if it came out on the ps2. Face it, a lot of us are looking to justify our purchase, and for me, justification comes in the form of jrpgs.

And if it's half as awesome as Sakura Taisen, I'll be thrilled (assuming it ever gets translated, argh).