[PS2] Ar Tonelico - The closest thing rpg nerds will ever get to a girlfriend

Yep. Pre-ordered this sucker the second I got the email. NIS America is getting good at this pre-order bonus stuff.

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Originally Posted by SouthJag

Wonder if this'll apply to in-store preorders, such as those at GameStop/EB Games.

Nope. From what I've read you can only get the soundtrack by ordering through the NIS America online store. I never buy NIS games anywhere else just because you won't get the bonus.

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http://www.nisamerica.com/games/artonelico/

Official website is up now. I'm not sure if the game is as good as it's hyped out to be, but I'll buy it either way just because I support unique titles like this getting localized. Gust games are usually fun too.

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I heard the game is about 30 hours long. If you go for all the extra stuff it could go a bit beyond 40.

How ya doing, buddy?

I've never had problems either. I know skills has with his Disgaea 2 pre-order. But he did get an extra game out of it. :3

I was speaking idiomatically.

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Your package is on time with a scheduled delivery date of 02/05/2007.

Looks like I get mine today.

The game arrived! I'll probably stare at the artbook while I wait for the last 3 hours to work to pass by. Now I have 2 RPGs to play. ;_;

This is pretty awesome though. Got the game a day before the shipment date.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I got it so quickly because I only live like 7 hours away from NIS America. =p

Unpacking the goodies at my work desk. The soundtrack comes in a jewel case instead of a paper sleeve that other publishers put extra CDs in. The soundtrack includes 35 tracks and all the names are in English of course:

01. Singing Hill
02. Melodies of a Requiem
03. Land if Fresh Greens
04. Morning Dew, Melt Away
05. A Song of Peace
06. Counting the Past
07. Over the Hardships
08. Vidarr
09. Scars
10. Your Feelings
11. Brave Beat
12. Crimson Sunset Skies
13. Airport Paradise
14. Screaming Seagull
15. Singing Girl
16. Beyond the Memories
17. My World is My Wish
18. Beat ~Elemia Arrange~
19. Ancient Memories
20. Dokkoi 50%-Off Sale!
21. City in the Sky
22. Flowing Clouds
23. AT inside ~incident~
24. AT inside ~resonance~
25. Tower of Ar tonelico
26. Tunes of Paradox
27. Music of the Echoing Horn
28. Valhalla
29. Rumble
30. Imperatrix
31. Genetic Chronicle
32. Song of the Breeze ~Music Box~
33. Voices of Paired Lives
34. Epilogue ~Fantasy DNA~
35. Phantasmagoria

The artbook is hardcover, 52 pages, full color, and contains nice art pieces, character and location descriptions, and of course some history about everything. All of it is in English. The game is on a DVD and comes with a 32 page manual. This is one hell of a package for $49.99!

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Originally Posted by Qwarky

So I heard from Krizz that even if you turn the audio to japanese, the videos will still have english voices, is this true or something he missed?

I thought these kinds of things were over after Disgaea

Yes. There's no dual-audio for the cut-scenes. Probably because there aren't subtitles programmed into them.

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Originally Posted by Colonel Skills

'Cept that, you know, the artbook comes inside the damn box and isn't a preorder bonus?

Any place you buy it from will have the artbook. The soundtrack is the exclusive bonus for preordering at NIS's now defunct store.

Well, they're only including the arbook in the first print of the games. Once those are gone, newer shipments will be the game only.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Just a friendly warning.

DO NOT PLAY THIS FUCKING GAME ON YOUR PS3!

The game corrupts past a certain point and YOU CAN NO LONGER SAVE. It will corrupt all Ar Tonelico saves on that memory card assigned to slot one. Switching to another one doesn't help since it only saves a corrupt file there too. And it doesn't tell you either. You just get a failed to load message. I just lost a whole weeks progress today and attempted to save to 5 of my memory cards on my PS3. Each save only corrupted and thus I was forced to take the loss and shut off the game (or beat the game in one sitting without turning the console off).

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Looking at other message boards, this error is fairly common. Someone even questioned NIS about it, and they said it can only be fixed through a firmware update by Sony. I'm digging out my PS2 now.

Luckily Rogue Galaxy doesn't seem to have this problem.

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What until you learn how to install stuff. Most sexual innuendo in a video game ever.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Yes, it's your PS2. When I played the game on my PS3 the music and voices never skipped once. Of course it isn't worth it when the game is unable to save properly. ._.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I just finished the game over the weekend. In the end I was pretty satisfied with the way it turned out. The Hymns you get to hear later on are amazingly awesome.

Spoiler:

Watched 5 of the 7 endings on my playthrough. I highly recommend playing into Phase 3 just because it adds an extra 10 hours of gameplay and a much better ending to the game. Plus you get another Cosmosphere to explore (though its only 5 levels) and you get two of the coolest characters on your team. In order to get the other 2 endings I have to select Aurica and play through phase 2 and 3 again which I don't feel like doing right now. Rogue Galaxy is calling me. And yeah, the game is still easy later on. The final boss did destroy three of my characters at once with a special attack. Closest I've ever come to dying in this game.

Beating the game gives you a ton of goodies in the extra menu including the ability to listen to all the songs in the game.

I wonder if Gamespot played the game completely to the end. It deserves better than a 6.3. I'd personally give it a 7.5-8.5.

I was speaking idiomatically.

The saving system is VERY buggy in this game. Use nothing but the official playstation memory card (8mb one) to play this game or else it won't save properly.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

It's coming fourth quarter and they'll announce it really soon.

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The above is not a fact. Or is it?

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Spoiler:

Coming out in December apparently.

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Funny how the image in the email showed an E rating on the game. This is the best game to give to a 6 year old.

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Wow NISA. You are getting really sloppy. How could you not catch a small string of text Japanese that comes up commonly? I don't think they playtested this shit at all.

クローシェ様～!!

There's nowhere I can't reach.