ASH: Archaic Sealed Heat

ASH: Archaic Sealed Heat
Developer(s) Mistwalker
Racjin
Publisher(s) Nintendo
Designer(s) Hironobu Sakaguchi
Artist(s) Hideo Minaba
Composer(s) Hitoshi Sakimoto
Masaharu Iwata
Isao Kasai
Platform(s) Nintendo DS
Release
  • JP: October 4, 2007
Genre(s) Tactical role-playing game
Mode(s) Single player

ASH: Archaic Sealed Heat is a tactical role-playing game developed by Mistwalker and Racjin and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS in Japan in 2007.

Gameplay

ASH features pre-rendered videos and backgrounds. Actual gameplay is displayed on the bottom screen, while the top screen shows a full motion video depicting the battle.

Release

ASH: Archaic Sealed Heat was released on October 4, 2007 in Japan as the first DS game released on a 2 gigabit game card. Nintendo of America was working on an English version of ASH which never materialized, despite English voice actors being hired and an ESRB confirmation.[1]

There was a fan translation attempt by psycoblaster, and while the translation had completed and entered the testing phase, the translator lost all the data of the game which he had stored on an USB.[2] It is unclear if the game is still being worked on as there have been no updates on progress since 2010. A ROM of the complete but untested version of the translation was eventually leaked to the public.[3]

Reception

ASH received a review score of 33/40 from Famitsu.[4] The game sold 67,000 copies in Japan as of October 22, 2007.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Siliconera » Nintendo Hired English Voice Actors For Mistwalker’s Archaic Sealed Heat
  2. ↑ pbtrans - Working
  3. ↑ GBAtemp - ASH: Archaic Sealed Heat Translation Patch leaked
  4. ↑ ASH - Famitsu Scores Archive Archived December 16, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
  5. ↑ Siliconera » The mixed flames of ASH: Archaic Sealed Heat
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