August 2025 Update
Development Update
ARMED FANTASIA August 2025 Monthly Project Report
Director Sekiya here.
I apologize for always talking about the weather, but it has been extremely hot in Japan for multiple days in a row.
When walking down the street on a sunny day, the strong direct sunlight overhead and the heat rising from the paved road make me feel like I’ve been thrown into a microwave.
Speaking of microwaves, I recall a horror movie titled ‘Microwave Massacre’ that I saw at a small rental video store in the 1980s.
The package illustration featured a woman’s head with bulging eyes being cooked inside a microwave, which was incredibly striking.
It piqued my morbid curiosity, making me wonder, “What kind of movie is this!?”
However, back then, rental video fees were quite expensive, so I didn’t have the financial leeway to rent such a bizarre horror movie, and I never ended up watching it.
(I did rent ‘Death Warmed Up,’ though!)
That independently owned rental video store, which was always filled with the scent of deodorizing cologne, even closed down, and I never got to watch ‘Microwave Massacre.’ It left a strong impression on me, and nothing more.
After I became an adult I had the opportunity to acquire a DVD of the film, but I still haven’t watched it to this day.
I feel like it would be a shame to know the true content of the film at this point.
I suspect that ‘Microwave Massacre’ will forever remain unwatched, sitting on the back shelf of my movie collection, eternally bearing the expectations I felt on that day in my youth.
Setting aside this personal anecdote that only fellow enthusiasts of my generation would understand,
I now bring you this update after several months.
We apologize for the concern this has caused our fans, but the project is still progressing as we make adjustments to bring it closer to our ideal form.
This time, we’ll show you a brief glimpse of a battle scene running on the development hardware.
Battle Scene Video
For the first time ever, we’re showing you actual battle scene gameplay footage.
First, we’d like to strongly emphasize that this is still a work-in-progress version.
Character models, effects, lighting, and other elements are still subject to further adjustments.
Elements such as elemental affinity displays and break turns, which have not been introduced to you yet, can be seen here and there.
The truth is there is still the possibility that we might make significant changes to the battle system, so once the thorough review is complete, we plan to share more battle system info with you at a later date.
The behaviors of the various gauges are also based on temporary values for development purposes, and do not reflect actual data, so please take this as a rough preview of the atmosphere.
We hope this gives you a good idea of the sort of energetic battles that Ingram, Euclid, and Alicia will be taking part in.
It’s been brief, but that concludes this month’s report.
We still haven’t decided what we will report on yet, but the next update will come after a few more months.
Please take care of your health and get through this summer safely.
See you next time.
