RWBY Arrowfell (NSP, XCI) ROM + v1.0.2 Update

RWBY Arrowfell is a RWBY video game by WayForward and Arc System Works. It was released digitally on November 15th, 2022, and was physically released on March 12th, 2023. The game features Metroidvania elements where players explore a 2D world along with single-player gameplay missions.  Players will play as all four members of Team RWBY and utilize their abilities to get through waves of enemies that hinder the group’s progression. The game includes animated cutscenes from the creators of the show to add further detail to the story. RWBY: Arrowfell takes place during the events of Volume 7, after the episode “Pomp and Circumstance”.

The game has been written by RWBY writers Kerry Shawcross, Miles Luna, and Eddy Rivas. During gameplay, players can control Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, and Yang Xiao Long and switch between them during solo or multiple modes. Environments include locals such as Atlas, Mantle, and more as players will need to fight against the Creatures of Grimm and other enemies along with never-before-seen threats. Further, the group also crosses paths with familiar faces including General James Ironwood and the Ace Operatives, plus a fearless new group of Huntresses known as Team BRIR.

The soundtrack for the game was released on December 1st, 2022.  The Japanese version of the game was released on all platforms on May 25th, 2023.  In RWBY: Arrowfell, you can switch instantly between all four members of Team RWBY: Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, and Yang Xiao Long. Use their unique weapons and abilities to fight against the Creatures of Grimm and other enemies in a story set during RWBY Volume 7. The game features voiceovers by the original cast of RWBY, new cutscenes created by the show’s team, and a fresh theme song by Jeff Williams and Casey Lee Williams.

You can explore Atlas and its surrounding areas, solve environmental puzzles, defeat colossal bosses, gain Skill Points to enhance your abilities and interact with characters such as Penny, Winter, General Ironwood, and the mysterious new Huntress team, Team BRIR.  Protect Remnant from a new unknown threat, and only Team RWBY can do it in RWBY: Arrowfell! The game features Metroidvania elements where players explore a 2D world along with single-player gameplay missions and local and online multiplayer modes. Players will play as all four members of Team RWBY and utilize their abilities to get through waves of enemies that hinder the group’s progression. The game includes animated cutscenes from the creators of the show to add further detail to the story.

THE MYSTERIOUS ORB

After Team RWBY becomes Huntresses, their first big mission begins with them looking into an increase in numbers of Grimm by investigating the tundra of Solitas close to Mantle. While investigating, they discover an orb that starts to attract the Grimm and are forced to destroy it to drive them away. After managing to gather what was left of the orb, the team took it with them to Pietro’s Pharmacy so Pietro Polendina and Maria Calavera could look at it. While Pietro needed time to repair the device and learn what it was, he informed the team that General James Ironwood had tasked them with checking the situation in the settlement of Essen.

After arriving at the settlement, Team RWBY meets Russet Ka, one of the two guardians of Essen. He explains to them that the Grimm recently attempted to destroy Essen just like what had happened to the settlement of Crossed. Due to his armor being damaged in the previous attack, he asks Team RWBY to help him forge new armor made with two essential ores. Team RWBY managed to obtain two of the orbs by exploring the ruins of Crossed and helping Cerise Claire, a former resident of Crossed, get her precious book containing information about her ancestors who fought in the Great War back from the ruins and give the pickaxe she rewards them to Zure Ayu so she could mine for Combustion Dust in the caves near Essen. While exploring the ruins of Crossed, the team encounters Penny Polendina there investigating a strange electromagneticly locked gate as well.

Once they obtain the ore, they go back to Pietro so he can forge the new armor just as he finished repairing the mysterious orb, and realizes that it is Technology from Fort Arrowfell, an old Atlas Military base before handing it back to them. Once Team RWBY gave the new set of armor to Russet Ka, he revealed that the Grimm were getting close to attacking Essen again even after trapping a Megoliath in part of the village and that they might be forced to abandon it if the situation continued as it is. When Team RWBY hears about this, they head towards the area with the Megoliath and confront it in battle. After seemingly defeating it and letting their guard down, the Megoliath gets back up and knocks them down as it attempts to kill them. Before it could however, four Huntresses named Bianca Prisma, Roane Ashwood, Ivy Thickety, and Ruda Tilleroot attack the Megoliath and manage to kill it with ease while saving Team RWBY.

Just when Team RWBY wanted to know who exactly they were, Essen’s second guardian Bram Thornmane angrily arrived and told the four of them to leave due to not wanting to deal with them again. After they left the area, Bram introduced himself to Team RWBY and revealed that the four they encountered were Team BRIR, a rogue Huntress team that only protected villages across Solitas for a price. Bram also revealed he originally trained to be a member of the Ace Operatives until he was rejected before noticing the mysterious orb in Team RWBY’s possession and taking it off their hands. When the team wanted to know more about the orb, Bram told them to ask Lieutenant Colonel Olive Harper due to her experience before they left Essen.

ACES AND WILD CARDS

Once Team RWBY returns to Atlas Academy and discusses with Harper how the orb was found in the Tundra, she tells them that they need a little more time to figure out who was responsible and tells them to help Clover Ebi and the other Ace Operatives with their current missions in the meantime. After meeting with Clover who already finished his mission, he tells Team RWBY to assist his teammates with their missions as they are sent throughout the city of Atlas and the areas of the Tundra close to the capital except Elm Ederne who also already finished her mission, and asked the team to help her find some Grape Soda while promising to look up information regarding Team BRIR. When the team explored the city of Atlas, however, they noticed that the streets were starting to crawl with mobsters that had high-tech Atlas Military technology on them as well.

While meeting up with Harriet Bree, she asks for their help with investigating a weapons furnishing operation that had happened in the southern coast Dust Mine of Solitas by gathering three pieces of weapons technology in the mine due to its possible connection with the mobsters having high-tech weapons on them.  When the team returns with the weapon pieces, Harriet thanks them and helps teach Ruby Rose how to use her Petal Burst Semblance more effectively and increases the distance she can travel when she uses it as a reward. While in Atlas, the team also meets up with Marrow Amin who had already finished up his mission but misplaced his goggles in the Tumak Ruins, and asks for their help in retrieving them.

While the team visited the Tumak Ruins in the tundra, they met up with Vine Zeki who was tasked with retrieving three relics taken from the site by historians in the past so they could reopen access to the ruins to the public sometime in the future and asks for their help retrieving them across the city of Atlas and the tundra. After they get all three, Vine thanks the team since their actions would help them reopen the site sometime in the future. Once the team fully explored the ruins, they also encountered Penny once again investigating another electromagnetically locked gate as well as retrieving Marrow’s goggles and returning them to him. As thanks, he gives them a can of Grape Soda he accidentally ordered that they later give to Elm.

When they ask her what she could find about Team BRIR, Elm mentions that she couldn’t find anything about the team in the Special Operatives Unit directory or the Atlas Academy database and that they were likely rouge mercenaries like Bram had previously told them. After Team RWBY finishes helping the Ace Operatives with their missions, they return to Harper as she reveals that they found a lead on Atlas mobster Amoncio Glass who they believe was responsible for the orb the team encountered as well as the weapons furnishing operation Harriet was investigating due to the mobsters on the streets of Atlas working for him.

Weiss Schnee stated that Glass was a shady individual who was constantly involved in the criminal underworld of Atlas and that even her father Jacques Schnee wouldn’t do business with him. Harper asks the team to confront Glass in downtown Atlas to learn what they can from him. When they arrive, Amoncio Glass confronts them himself while warning the team to stay out of his business and asking them if they even knew who they were messing with. When Ruby stated that she didn’t know who he was, an annoyed Amoncio Glass told them that they would settle it right at that moment before being frightened by Team RWBY when they took out their weapons and ran into a nearby building.

As the team contemplates going after him, Glass returns while inside a giant mech known as the “Glass Cannon MK II” and fights them before Team RWBY destroys the mech. Following the battle, the team demands answers from Glass about the mysterious orb that they encountered in the tundra and about his involvement with it. Glass then reveals to them that the orbs act as bait to attract the Grimm to their location due to containing negative emotions such as fear inside of them and that he helped distribute them but wasn’t the one responsible for the plan. When Team RWBY asked him who was responsible, he revealed that even he didn’t know due to his client using codenames to avoid their identity from being revealed before Glass asked the team to leave him alone.