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is a series of role-playing video games that were released for the PlayStation and PlayStation 2. Several of the games were published by Sony Computer Entertainment (SCEI) in Japan. The games were never released outside of Japan until ''Arc the Lad Collection'' was released by Working Designs in 2002. An anime television series based on ''Arc the Lad II'' was also made. The game series started with tactical RPGs but branched out to other genres with ''Arc the Lad: End of Darkness'', which still features RPG elements. Each of the games also feature recurring characters, such as the main character, Arc, who appears in several of the games. ==Games== ''Arc the Lad'' was developed by G-Craft and published by SCEI in Japan on June 30, 1995. The game features tactical role-playing game battle elements, which would become a staple for the series. ''Arc the Lad'' introduces several characters that appear in all three games in the collection. Arc, the lead, is a boy from the small town of Touvil who is fated to fight corruption. Characters like Kukuru, Iga, Poco, Tosh, and Chongara also make future appearances. ''Arc the Lad II'', developed by ARC Entertainment and published by SCEI, was released in Japan on November 1, 1996, and was re-released twice. This game continues to use the tactics style battles, featuring much more complex statistics than its predecessor, a more interactive world map and a longer game length.〔 A new feature are the guilds, which allow the player to take jobs as side quests. The characters of ''Arc the Lad'' reappear alongside new ones. Elc, a young hunter, joins the fight against the corrupt government. He and his fellow hunter Shu meet up with several other characters involved in the mess, including Arc and his friends, and bring Andel and his followers down. ''Arc the Lad: Monster Game with Casino Game'', developed by ARC Entertainment and published by SCEI, was released in Japan on July 31, 1997, and was re-released twice,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Arc Arena for PS )〕 first as part of Arc the Lad Collection (where it was known as ''Arc Arena: Monster Tournament''), and again when it was released on the Japanese PlayStation Store as a PSone Classic on December 12, 2007. ''Arc the Lad III'', the final Arc game for the PlayStation, was released on October 28, 1999. It was the only game in the collection to feature two discs. Similarly to the first two, this Arc game uses tactics battles and basic RPG elements.〔 The explorable maps of Arc II return. However, unlike the first two, the game is strictly job driven; the story only progresses as the player takes and completes jobs from the guilds. This game introduces Alec and Lutz, two small-town boys looking to become great Hunters and who battle a new, corrupt entity known as the Academy. Characters from previous games make cameo appearances and occasionally fight alongside Alec. For their US release, Working Designs published ''Arc the Lad I'', ''II'', ''III'' and ''Monster Tournament'' as part of a compilation of Arc games (Arc the Lad Collection) on April 18, 2002 in North America. The collection as a whole received mainly positive reception. ''Arc the Lad: Kijin Fukkatsu'' (''Arc the Lad: Resurrection of the Machine God'') is a Wonderswan Color game developed by Bandai and released in 2002 in Japan. Set after the main series, this game features similar combat and gameplay to the previous installments. Elc, from ''Arc the Lad II'', returns as the main character as he discovers a girl sent from the past to his time because of a hostile robot takeover. Finia, the girl, Elc, and several of his friends return once again to save humanity. ''Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits'' was the first PlayStation 2 game in the Arc series. It was developed by a group called Cattle Call, and published by SCEI. It was released in Japan on March 20, 2003 and in North America on June 25 of the same year by SCEA. This was also the only Arc game to date to come out in Europe, released by SCEE the following year. The battle system in this installment allows characters to move freely in circular ranges across fields during their turns as opposed to the grid-based fields of its predecessors. ''Arc the Lad: End of Darkness'' is the final Arc game and the second to be released on the PS2. Developed by Cattle Call and published by SCEI, the game was released in Japan on November 3, 2004. Namco then published the game for its North American release. This game does not follow the tactics battle style of the previous games, instead using action RPG combat. Online multiplayer is also included. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arc the Lad」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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