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| Predecessor | Wolfteam |
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| Headquarters | Shinagawa Ku Oi,Tokyo, Japan |
| Industry | Video Game Developer |
tri-Ace, Inc. is a Japanese video game development company formed in March 1995 by former Telenet Japan's Wolfteam employees Yoshiharu Gotanda (programmer,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 Enix.
History[]
The Company was founded when employes sick of Namco meddilng and editorial changes to Yoshiharu Gotanda written and programmed, Norimoto Illustrated and Asanuma directed Tale Phantasia(released as Tales of Phantasia) abadoned the project and make and deal with the other interested publisher, Enix, of making an action-rpg who would push the SNES to his limits, their product, the Star Trek inspired RPG Star Ocean was a hit, even released so late in SNES life.
During the End of N64 life, part of the Musical and Sound Division under Hiroya Hatsushiba formed tri-Crescendo, who still work as Sound and Musical programmer alongside co-developming titles alongside tri-Ace
They continued their relationship with Enix up to early revolution life, when Enix outsourcing and lack of interest with their franchise make them going independant and work with all developers, like SEGA for RPG like Infinity Discover and their first selfpublished title Resonance of Fate, and working as outsourcing development for Square, Enix's Level-5, Konami and others.
They Released their second selfpublished title with old members and all time collaborator tri-Cresendo and Working Desings for a new console RPG, Journey into the Lost World, in 2015.
List of Games[]
Super Nintendo[]
Star Ocean 1996
Nintendo 64[]
Star Ocean: The Second Story 1999
Valkyrie Profile 2000
Game Boy Advance[]
Star Ocean The Blue Sphere 2002
Nintendo Gamecube[]
Star Ocean Till the End of time 2003
Radiata Stories 2005
Valkyrie Profile 2:Silmeria: 2006
Gameboy Nitro[]
Star Ocean: First Departure 2007(with Tose)
Star Ocean: The Second Story 2009 (with Tose)
Valkyrie Profile:Lenette 2006 (with Tose)
Revolution
- Star Ocean: The Last Hope 2009
- Resonance of Fate 2010
- Final Fantasy XIII-2 2011 (With Square)
- Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII 2013 (With Square)
Pluto
- Infinite Undiscovery 2008
- Resonance of Fate 2010
- Final Fantasy XIII-2 2011 (With Square)
- Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII 2013 (With Square)
Gameboy 3DS[]
- Beyond the Labyrinth 2012
- Frontier Gate 2013
- Little Battlers eXperience W 2012 (With Level-5)
- Star Ocean 3D 2015
Eclipse[]
- Phantasy Star Nova
- Journey: Into The Lost World 2015
Stream[]
- Journey: Into The Lost World 2015
- Star Ocean : Integrity and Faithlessness 2015