I'm there day one for it, got my limited edition pre-ordered and the impressions sound great, but then again this is Makoto Shibata we are talking about here. He knows what he's doing.
Maybe the localization was actually done by Tecmo? But the game's being published by Nintendo? Are people really sure that Nintendo were handling the localization of the game or is that just an assumption?
While he has his quirks, it's kind of nice that there's a video game with 5+ entries and he's directed each one and kept the series in a pretty consistent direction, though apparently there were some pretty radical changes initially planned for the title.
It might be Tecmo that dubbed it, I don't think we know 100%, but I think Nintendo handled dubbing of FF2Wii, as they also did with Xenoblade and Pandora's Tower, so I think most (myself included) assumed it'd be the same here, but maybe a very different situation?
I'd be pretty surprised if they removed anything at this point, seeing as it has PEGI and USK 18 certificates.
While it sucks that the US isn't getting a physical copy, I gotta support console survival horror. The glowing impressions make it even better.
With the right ratings table, and the fact Nintendo seems a bit more lax now than they were even 4-5 years ago with it, they may very well get through. I mean, I guess there's nothing "worse" in this than Bayonetta series, for example.
It's designed to make player felt more vulnerable and unsecured in a survival horror. Imagine replacing the young girl with ordinary outfit and minimum protection gear with a huge, muscular 7 ft tall space marine with buster sword, yeah.
While I agree, she's definitely designed festively. I like the coloration and outfit, but it's also not something someone would enter into a cursed forest with regularly, but there is some suspension of disbelief here as it is a horror trope at this point.
I got an order in for the physical LE at least. It makes absolutely no sense that so few copies were put up for pre-order. At the same time, the Xenoblade Chronicles X LE is still up in the UK store. Really fucking dumb.
I think they don't expect it to sell that well, but who knows, maybe they'll be surprised, maybe not.
I'd definitely prefer to have a physical release of this considering I still like to go back to the original Xbox to play the FF2 director's cut from time to time, but I'm just happy this game's coming out at all.
That's about my stance on it, better this than nothing, though I would of bought physical too.
