Wild Arms for PSP

By Robert Purchese Published 3 December, 2007

Another strategical RPG.

XSEED has picked up the US publishing rights to Wild Arms XF on PSP, and hopes to release it there next spring.

Pronounced "crossfire", it will be the first time the RPG series has appeared on handheld, bringing with it a fresh cast and snazzy new story.

The world of Filgaia is stuck in an endless cycle of war for its limited resources, you see, and even the kingdom of Elesius with its poorly king has been dragged into the fracas. Soon you, as Clarissa Arwin, will find your hunt for the murderer of your mother intertwined with the fate of Filgaia, and take it upon yourself to go and save the day. Nice people do things like that.

Fighting is done in a familiar turn-based style and there will be over 20 job classes to customise your characters with, as well as crafting from rare materials to create better bits and pieces for your team.

All in all there will be around 60 stages to strategically work through, and in-game cut-scenes to keep you stuck to your screen.

Unfortunately there is no word on its European plans just yet, but we will keep you posted as more becomes available.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds. @Clert on Twitter.

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Comments (4) Latest comment 5 years ago

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  • Triggerhappytel #1 5 years ago

    I loved Wild Arms - not played any since the first, though. Any others worth my time? (assuming I can find any, ofcourse...)

  • Schiraman #2 5 years ago

    It's weird that it took so long for any tactical RPGs to make it to PSP, and now we seem to be inundated with them. Still, better late than never. Hope it's a good one.

  • Toothball #3 5 years ago

    I've enjoyed all the Wild Arms games. The new systems in the fourth and fifth do give a nice change from the usual RPG battle, and include a wonderful system that allows you to disable random battles after meeting certain conditions. The Third was pleasant, but got a little confused towards the end. The Second is probably my favourite.

    Hadn't realised that this one was going to be a Tactics RPG actually. Despite that, it was part of the reason I got a PSP, so it'll be interesting to see how it ends up.

  • Arwin #4 5 years ago

    Crap, people will start calling me Clarissa and think I'm a woman ...
    Edited by Arwin at 03/12/07 @ 22:43