Comments on Arcana Heart

KAISER_KNUCKLE wrote on Sunday 17th of February 2008 01:11:14 AM

(アルカナハート, Arukana Hāto?) is a 2D arcade fighting game developed by Examu (formerly Yuki Enterprise). The first edition was released to arcades (mostly in Japan, but a few in other countries) in late 2006. The game features an original all-female cast (each a variation of the moe Anime-Girl archetype), and after choosing a character the player chooses an "elemental alignment" which determines the character's special moves.

In mid-April of 2007, a patch was released for Arcana Heart called "Arcana Heart FULL". The patch fixed a variety of issues, toning-down overly-powerful characters and "buffing up" weaker characters. A controversy arose, however, due to the fact that the patch (which is physically housed on a single custom chip) costs ¥78,000 each, whereas similar patches for similar games have been released for free (such as the patch for Melty Blood: Act Cadenza).

KAISER_KNUCKLE wrote on Sunday 17th of February 2008 12:42:15 AM

The PS2 version lets you select "enhanced" or "normal" version of the game.

VANEELEN wrote on Saturday 16th of February 2008 10:27:26 PM

I heared the PS2 Version had some kind of upgrade... Is it better than the Arcade-Version ?