News: The birth of Compile Heart

July 15, 2006, 06:05 AM

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Here we are once again to tell you the news you won't be finding on any other sites, especially if its arcade-related and involves historical arguments! It's quite interesting that Idea Factory recently formed up a brand-new group (yeah, yet another one) with the name 'Compile Heart', whose first work was the Japanese localization of the Korean RPG Astonishia Story, in its PSP incarnation.

More surprisingly, the company's logo bears a clear resemblance to that of the old Compile. Yesterday we learned that it's indeed related to the legendary Puyo Puyo maker (which, you can say, currently carries the name 'Aiky'), and is developing an arcade game (no less) called 'Takoron' which will be based on the Puyo Puyo formula and it's being supervised by Puyo Puyo's creator Moo Niitani. The company has signed an agreement with AMI to get its forthcoming arcade games distributed, much like AMI did for Idea Factory's only arcade game to date, Spectral vs. Generation. Let's see what happens this time since Aiky's own Puyo Puyo successor Pochi to Nyaa wasn't exactly a hit despite its quality. It seems, anyhow, that Takoron has already been confirmed for a PSP version via Famitsu's pages, along with a third PSP game called 'Vulcanus' classified as an 'action shooting game with robots'.