15 Facts About Radiant Historia

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Radiant Historia is a role-playing video game co-developed by Atlus and Headlock for the Nintendo DS.

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Radiant Historia was developed by a team with staff drawn from both Atlus' Megami Tensei series, and the tri-Ace title Radiata Stories.

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Radiant Historia is a role-playing video game set in a fantasy world and following a group of characters traveling across the war-torn continent of Vainqueur.

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Key part of Radiant Historia is navigating a series of branching stories spread across alternate timelines using a book called the White Chronicle.

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Radiant Historia is set on the continent of Vainqueur, a land populated by humans and Beastribes.

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Radiant Historia is drawn into Historia, a realm divorced from time, and told by its overseers Teo and Lippti that he can use the White Chronicle to alter events.

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Radiant Historia uses skills acquired in each timeline to proceed further in each role, while interacting with the Beastmen tribes, particularly the young shaman Aht and the sympathetic warrior Gafka.

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Radiant Historia was co-developed by Atlus, a company best known for the Megami Tensei series, and Japanese studio Headlock.

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Concept for Radiant Historia was created by Takayashiki, who first pitched his proposal to Atlus in 2007.

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Radiant Historia managed to preserve the branching narrative by cutting down the number of countries by half, and creating the Alternate timeline.

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Radiant Historia's was intended to have long hair typical of princess characters, but was given short hair based on hardware restrictions and the wish to convey a unique look.

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Music for Radiant Historia was written by Yoko Shimomura, a composer best known for her work on the Kingdom Hearts series and Legend of Mana.

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Radiant Historia's was first contacted about working on the project via email, and while she initially thought it a prank was shocked when she realized the email was real.

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Main theme "Radiant Historia" was a vocal theme—an inclusion insisted upon by Shimomura—and was performed by Haruka Shimotsuki.

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James Jones of Nintendo World Report felt that Radiant Historia "should be on the must-own list of any fans of RPGs" and acted as a fitting end to Atlus's support of the DS platform.

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