Ar nosurge: Ode to an Unborn Star (2014) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Ar nosurge: Ode to an Unborn Star

Part of the Surge Concerto franchise, Ar Nosurge is an RPG that serves as a prequel to the Ar Tonelico game series. Series director Akira Tsuchiya continues his opus with a deep and robust world. A world where…

78 6 March 2014 ESRB T

What Ar nosurge: Ode to an Unborn Star is

Ar nosurge: Ode to an Unborn Star is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Gust and released in 2014. It was published by Koei Tecmo Games. It is available on PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 3. It carries an ESRB T age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Part of the Surge Concerto franchise, Ar Nosurge is an RPG that serves as a prequel to the Ar Tonelico game series. Series director Akira Tsuchiya continues his opus with a deep and robust world. A world where songs are magic, and emotions are strong enough to form bonds. Ar nosurge: Ode to an Unborn Star is a story of love, emotional bonds and the frailty of existence. Ar Nosurge is a sci-fi, ‘7 Dimension’ RPG, that takes place in a world where music and song can create magic. It tells the compelling story of a civilization that lost their planet and has been roaming the edge of space for 2000 years in search of a new home. The game follows two sets of characters: Delta and Casty, whose…

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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are fantasy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Ar tonelico series

Ar nosurge: Ode to an Unborn Star is the seventh of 10 entries we hold in the Ar tonelico series. It arrived 2 years after Ciel Nosurge. The next entry was Ar nosurge Plus in 2014. Its critic score of 78 is 20 points above the series average of 58. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.

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How it was received

Ar nosurge: Ode to an Unborn Star holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 56% of the 3,814 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 9 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Ar nosurge: Ode to an Unborn Star launched on 6 March 2014, within three weeks of South Park: The Stick of Truth, Dark Souls II, Hearthstone and Diablo III: Reaper of Souls. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: South Park: The Stick of Truth, Dark Souls II, Hearthstone, Diablo III: Reaper of Souls.

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