Luminous arc infinity english8/7/2023 ![]() ![]() I also loved that the intro changes depending how far you are in the story (like in Wild ARMs 3). There were little thoughtful touches in there too such as a world you can explore around as a sprite version of Floatia which gives slightly more feeling and depth to the universe, as well as animated mini-games such as the water battle which add some variety into the mix. Worse is Floatia which you can look around but will be treated to low-poly models and horrible water textures at every time that really hammer home the feeling of this being an ex-PSP game – a shame, but hardly too detracting from the overall experience.Īt least the anime artwork is lovely, feeling similar in style to something like Utawarerumono in terms of proportion and movement. It’s over the top and absolutely glorious.Įnvironmental detail isn’t fantastic with maps being 3D dioramas in the sky where you can see off the edges, which is standard for the genre but feels a little cheap all the same. You could tell Felistella worked on the Hyperdimension Neptunia series as it’s similar here, with dedicated cutscenes showing things like elemental tornadoes being called down, gigantic remote control tanks raining down destruction and attack eagles striking the bad guys. When watching the girls chant their spells lights things up in colour, it’s the special attacks that really connected for me. Thankfully, in combat things look so much better. Speaking of this, character designs are oddly sexualised which is a strange choice given the chibi nature – like Criminal Girls you’ll see their full proportions when in the touch screen minigame, but seeing their boobs bounce on their tiny models is still off-putting. The character models for example are chibi 3D which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but when you look at things like clothes textures and facial features up close you’ll notice that they’re low-quality and disappointing. ![]() This is evident wherever you look in the game. While I’m sure Felistella did develop Luminous Arc Infinity for Vita, at times it looks like a leftover project from the PSP/3DS era that got up-ressed and ported across to Sony’s far more powerful handheld. I’m not sure why this bears the Luminous Arc name as I’m not sure the series was a huge seller anyway, but this could’ve been just as successful as a new IP without tricking fans of the prior entries that this is something it isn’t. The developers also throw out almost everything from the previous Luminous Arc titles in favour of starting afresh which I have no issue with, but is a bizarre choice. Infinity does create an interesting world over the journey too, with Lapis being weaved into everything from attacks to the function of your ship Floatia, but it’s never truly explored in the way I’d expect from a full JRPG. Unfortunately, the game gets lost in telling its cutesy slice-of-life events at the expense of everything else. Had it not been so focused on fanservice and harem delivery (particularly through free-time bonding events with the girls) there could’ve been a fairly solid, if simplistic, JRPG story here. It’s in the later chapters that Infinity opens up and delivers a handful of twists and turns that I wasn’t expecting that did grab my attention for a while. These are all tropes you’ll have come across on dozens of occasions before, but they’re still developed well enough here with each girl having her own personality that you uncover over the course of the adventure. There is an interesting enough cast of girls here including Hisoka, an upbeat Ninja girl with some skeletons in her closet Brigitta, a noble woman who attempts to conduct herself with class and grace and C-9, an android who lacks any human emotions. It’s the kind of thing we’ve seen countless times before on Vita (the console was a comfortable home for these types of experiences) and although there’s some intrigue in the setting and events that unfold here, generally the title sticks to a familiar storytelling structure throughout of Identify threat -> rescue girl -> repeat. If you couldn’t tell from the above description, Luminous Arc Infinity is very much a harem RPG where the main hero gathers up his menagerie of girls who all fawn over him as the story goes along. When the nine pillars are threatened by a mysterious organisation known as Amadeus, it falls to an unlikely hero named Seed to save the world by gathering together a group of girls known as idols who can awaken the Lapis powers within the gemstones. In a world governed by a special power called ‘Lapis’ which exists in gemstones called the ‘nine pillars’, the balance of Lapis ensures order. Revival the dormant DS series with a whole new approach that plays things a little too by-the-book yet is still plenty charming in its own right. ![]()
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