Joystiq writes: "Imageepoch, developer of RPGs like Luminous Arc and Sands of Destruction, announced a move into publishing at a press event in Tokyo today. The company detailed the first three games to be published under this new "JRPG" label, the first of which will be a strategy RPG for PSP, called Saigo no Yakusoku no Monogatari, or 'Final Promise Story'."
Gary Green said: Imageepoch Inc. was a game developer based in Tokyo, Japan. It was owned by esteemed JRPG mastermind Ryoei Mikage and founded on June 9th, 2005. Other key personnel are Senior Director Kazuya Niinou and Director Hiroyuki Kanemaru. As of January 2009, the studio had over 120 employees.
Mikage would gain fame in the industry for his passion for grand stories and quirky characters. His earlier work on the production of Grandia III and Beat Down for the PlayStation 2 would bring many supporters to his cause. Running his own studio would allow the eccentric Mikage to be more experimental with his own unique twists on the JRPG genre.
The studio would develop exclusively for the Nintendo DS before alternating games with PlayStation Portable releases, plus others in the following years. Their first release was the Nintendo DS tactical role-playing game, Luminous Arc, which blossomed into a reasonably well-received property for Imageepoch.
Ryoei Mikage, the former president and CEO of Imageepoch, which went bankrupt in 2015, established a new company called Mikage LLC. in February 2017 and will announce a new title on February 9, 2019.
Wait didn't he go missing? I'm glad to hear he's alive and well. Imageepoch made some underrated gems last gen.
Doki Doki Kusoge reviews Stella Glow for the Nintendo 3DS, Imageepoch's final game.
Well that's good to know. :)
can i play last ranker stateside please