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tri-Ace
Official Sites: Japan | English
tri-Ace is the Video Game making company responsible for the Star Ocean Series, as well as the Valkyrie Profile Series, Radiata Stories, Infinite Undiscovery & Resonance of Fate (known as End of Eternity in Japan)
tri-Ace (three Aces) is actually spelt as shown, the t is purposefully lower case.
They formed as their own group back in 1995. This come about from a break-up of a prior group they served called Wolf Team, indecently the last game made by this group was the first of the popular Tales of series, Tales of Phantasia. This could very well be the very reason that Star Ocean and Tales games have many similarities, still sharing some of the ideas that made Tales of Phantasia successful. Such as usage of hidden affection levels between characters & an action battle system.
tri-Ace adopt the services of the big name Square-Enix (formerly Enix) whom are synonymous for their most popular series Final Fantasy, however for tri-Ace they are primarily used for publishing and advertising purposes. Well, up until the announcement of End of Eternity in April 2009, where tri-Ace are in fact working with Sega for publishing/advertising purposes.
Game titles summary by tri-Ace
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Square Enix
Official Site: Global Index
Square Enix (formerly Enix) are the publishers for all of the tri-Ace games, with the exception of SEGA's Resonance of Fate (known as End of Eternity in Japan).
Enix was originally formed back in 1985 under the name of Enix Corporation, on the 1st of April 2003 Enix merged with Square Co., Ltd to become what is the now well known Square Enix.
The biggest non tri-Ace series which Enix published would be the Dragon Warrior (now Dragon Quest) series. It's no coincidence that the last two titles published under Enix was Dragon Quest Monsters: Caravan Heart & Star Ocean: Till the End of Time (the Japanese original version).
The biggest name title for Square Co., Ltd prior the merger was without a doubt the Final Fantasy series. In Japan the two most popular RPG series are Final Fantasy & Dragon Quest, arguably making them the the most successful RPG producer worldwide.
Here is a breakdown of which company has published the tri-Ace games to date.
As Enix, prior the Square Enix merger:
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