Resonance of Fate, the RPG collaboration between tri-Ace and Sega, has been confirmed for a 2010 Western release and is due to arrive in North America and Europe at the same time. According to Sega, this move has been inspired by a perceived drop of interested in JRPGs by UK consumers.
"America and Europe is the same release," confirms SEGA Europe localisation producer Jun Yoshino. "Usually the European version comes a year after, let’s say the Japanese release. During the year, a lot of people are going to like, well this is old news now. We’re going to be losing a lot of interest if there is such a long time as a year. We’ve scheduled it in so we can get it out as quick as possible."
Given tri-Ace's recent history, I'm not sure just how good this news is, but I suppose it's always nice to see a simultaneous US and Europe release. We'll certainly find out if the game's worth the tough localization effort early next year.
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10:40 AM on 07.31.2009 | 
However I'm pretty sure however that any loss in interest in the JRPG genre has been caused by most of these JRPGs being excruciatingly awful. I'm not a huge fan of the style of game but even I can tell that this generation is easily the worst there has been. Only Lost Odyssey and Disgaea 3 (is that JRPG?) have engaged me in any way.
Even more so then the girls they fight with...they must be jealous, those guys having no split ends. I mean can you just imagine all the nights Tifa had to hear that from cloud?
Cloud: Sigh...tifa your split ends are bringing down our status a part
Tifa:Cry....
And you brought up a good point. What is with almost all jrpgs being horrible this gen? Bring back the ps2 days. :(
Anyway, I've heard almost nothing about this game. It doesn't look too bad, I guess.
Tri-Ace has put out some really good games in the past, like the first few Star Ocean games and Valkyrie Profile. VP: Covenant of the Plume was good, so we know they still have potential to make good games...I just hope they can pull it off with this game.
Instead of a,long rant I'll just copy paste this from Wikipedia about Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia:
"The European version was released by 505 Games on May 22, 2007. However, it was released in very limited quantities only in France, Italy and Spain and as such European copies of the game are rare and the very existence of the PAL-version remained widely unnoticed."