tri-Ace

tri-Ace, Inc.
Subsidiary of Nepro Japan
Industry Video game industry
Founded March 1995
Headquarters Tokyo, Japan
Key people
 Yoshiharu Gotanda (President)
Masaki Norimoto (designer)
Motoi Sakuraba (composer)
Joe Asanuma (former President)
Products Star Ocean series (1996–present)
Valkyrie Profile series (1999–2009)
Owner Independent (1995–2015)
Nepro Japan (2015–)
Number of employees
 130
Parent Nepro Japan
Website tri-ace.co.jp

tri-Ace, Inc. (株式会社トライエース, Kabushiki Gaisha Toraiēsu) is a Japanese video game development company formed in March 1995 by former Telenet Japan employees Yoshiharu Gotanda (programmer, current tri-Ace President), Masaki Norimoto (game designer) and Joe Asanuma (director). The name is a play on words regarding the "three aces" who formed the company. Most of tri-Ace's games have been published by Square Enix (formerly Enix).

The group exclusively makes role-playing video games, and is known for giving their games action-packed battle systems and deep skill systems. This trademark style began when the founders of tri-Ace originally worked for Telenet Japan's Wolfteam, and had created Tales of Phantasia. This game, published by Namco, is a precursor to tri-Ace's own Star Ocean games in several ways; e.g., an action battle system where the player controls one character and AI controls others in the party and special battle skills that the player can assign to different buttons. Besides the Star Ocean series, they also released Valkyrie Profile in 1999. Their 2010 release of Resonance of Fate, was taken to Sega publishing.

tri-Ace games have sold over 3.8 million copies worldwide as of September 2005.[1] The company's sound programmer Hiroya Hatsushiba formed tri-Crescendo in 1999 which has since developed several games independently of tri-Ace.

Japanese mobile company Nepro Japan acquired tri-Ace in February 2015.[2] Despite being acquired by a company focusing on mobile gaming, tri-Ace will continue developing video games for consoles.[3]

Games developed

TitleYearPublisher(s)Platform(s)Region(s)
Star Ocean1996EnixSNESJP
Star Ocean: The Second Story1998PlayStationJP, NA, EU
Valkyrie Profile1999JP, NA
Star Ocean: Blue Sphere2001Game Boy ColorJP
Star Ocean: Till the End of Time2003PlayStation 2JP
Star Ocean: Til the End of Time Director's Cut2004Square EnixJP, NA, AUS, EU
Radiata Stories2005JP, NA
Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria2006JP, NA, AUS, EU
Infinite Undiscovery2008Xbox 360NA, AUS, EU, JP
Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the PlumeNintendo DSJP, NA, EU, AUS
Star Ocean: The Last Hope2009Xbox 360JP, NA, AUS, EU
Resonance of Fate2010SegaXbox 360, PlayStation 3
Star Ocean: The Last Hope InternationalSquare EnixPlayStation 3
Hoshigami no Taijyu Lemuta2011YahooBrowser gameJP
Final Fantasy XIII-2[4]Square EnixPlayStation 3, Xbox 360JP, NA, AUS, EU
Frontier GateKonamiPlayStation PortableJP
Beyond the Labyrinth2012Nintendo 3DS
Little Battlers eXperience WLevel-5PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita
Frontier Gate Boost+2013KonamiPlayStation Portable
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII[5]Square EnixPlayStation 3, Xbox 360JP, NA, AUS, EU
Silent Scope: Bone-Eater2014KonamiArcadeJP
Judas Codetri-AcePlayStation Vita
Phantasy Star NovaSega
Chronos Ring2015KonamiiOS, Android
Exist Archive: The Other Side of the SkySpike ChunsoftPlayStation 4, PlayStation VitaJP, NA
Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness2016Square EnixPlayStation 3, PlayStation 4JP, NA, EU
Heaven×InfernoNTT DocomoiOS, AndroidJP
Star Ocean: AnamnesisSquare EnixiOS, AndroidJP
Resonance of Fate2018tri-AcePlayStation 4, Microsoft WindowsJP, NA, EU

References

  1. ↑ "tri-Ace Company Sales". tri-Ace.co.jp. Retrieved 2008-07-19.
  2. ↑ Matulef, Jeffrey (February 20, 2015). "Star Ocean developer tri-Ace acquired by Japanese mobile company". Eurogamer. Gamer Network. Retrieved February 21, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Don't Worry, tri-Ace Will Keep Making Games For Consoles". Siliconera. 2015-03-09. Retrieved 2015-03-09.
  4. ↑ "Tri-Ace Helped Out With Final Fantasy XIII-2". Siliconera. 2011-12-18. Archived from the original on 2013-03-14. Retrieved 2013-02-10.
  5. ↑ Spencer (2013-11-13). "NORA Won't Return For Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII". Siliconera. Archived from the original on 2013-12-06. Retrieved 2013-11-13.
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