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Lord of Magna: Maiden Heaven (3DS) confirmed by XSEED, coming out this Spring in NA
- Thread starter L~A
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Full English dub. No original audio, though, sorry to say. (We tried!)
Oh, absolutely!
Yep!
I... don't think I even know the answer to this, nor would I likely be at liberty to talk about it if I did. Sorry!
-Tom
Maleko Saint
Banned
Thanks for the response and such. I appreciate it.
sixteen-bit
Member
Those children on the cover should close their mouths too; a fly might get in.
AcademicSaucer
Member
Fuck, Marvelous logo is shit.
Nice. Will buy. I'm glad it's getting a physical release and a dub.
It truly is. They should at least make the white part transparent.
#teamxseedlogo
It truly is. They should at least make the white part transparent.
#teamxseedlogo
Hero of Legend
Member
HQ box:
Aquamarine
Member
Purchase confirmed. <3
Skyfireblaze
Member
Is there any chance on a EU release in any way? I thought with Rune Factory 4 out here I would be safe but since I have a new 3DS on 9.5 and RegionThree doesn't work there I don't want to feel bummed again 
Also the music in the trailer was awesome!
Also the music in the trailer was awesome!Hero of Legend
Member
Is there any chance on a EU release in any way? I thought with Rune Factory 4 out here I would be safe but since I have a new 3DS on 9.5 and RegionThree doesn't work there I don't want to feel bummed again
Yep! The Australian ratings board rated it by Marvelous Europe!
What's with Taruranto and dismissing cool strategy RPGs recently?! Because this ain't no kusoge, dude!
...Curious what the other "kusoge" in question might be, too. We've been on a roll lately, releasing some pretty damned good games!
Remember, just because you don't like a thing (or most likely in this case, don't think you'd like a thing) doesn't make it bad.
-Tom
Not saying Marvelous games are kusoge or anything but i mean it makes sense for XSEED to localize those titles, they are the western branch after all.
And Brandish was awesome.
Onechanbara probably.
I think solely because it was marketed as the next game from the creators of Rune Factory, and people bought it expecting a Rune Factory-style game that was a strategy RPG rather than an action RPG. And if you go into Lord of Magna expecting something as deep and involving as Rune Factory, you will definitely be disappointed -- the game is much more straightforward. There are no real sim elements here, aside from a few choices that determine your relationships to each of the characters, affecting their battle skills and very slightly affecting some ending dialogue -- it's mostly just battles and story, like any other tactical RPG.
The appeal of Lord of Magna comes from its unique combat system (that encourages bowling down enemies as if they were pins), its cute and highly polished appearance, and its charming and likable story and cast of characters. If you go into it expecting all of that, as opposed to Rune Factory Tactics, then you'll most likely enjoy the game quite a bit.
-Tom
Not sure where else to post this, but in case anyone with a Japanese 3DS is interested, the JP version is on sale for $9.99 at Play-asia right now, as part of their weekly special. At that price, it might be worth a try.
Really? You must have exceptionally high standards, then, because I thought the English voice-acting we got for this game turned out great. It's not our best dub ever (that honor goes to Akiba's Trip, as far as I'm concerned!), but it's very solid, with the voices closely matching the characters while still sounding natural in English (or as natural as can be expected in this game world, at any rate).
We try to include dual audio in every game, but usually we're unable for one reason or another -- either we can't get the voice rights to the Japanese and thus have to make the game English-only (which happens to us a lot), or the cost to dub the game is prohibitively high and we're forced to present it with Japanese-only voices (case in point, Corpse Party, which not only has a huge cast of voice-actors with a ton of lines each, but also utilizes special binaural 3D recording techniques that I'm not even sure any studios around here are capable of replicating).
We were able to offer a choice of languages to players of Akiba's Trip and Killer Is Dead, and will be offering that choice once more in our upcoming Onechanbara Z2: Chaos, but we weren't able to license the rights to the Japanese voices for Lord of Magna, so I'm afraid that game will be presented with an English dub only.
-Tom
Astral Dog
Member
I read it as Lords of Magma, that would had been cooler.
Hikami
Member
I'm going to have more 3DS games with these collectible boxes than ones without them at this point. Been keeping up with the blogs, game is a lot deeper than I thought.
i should actually start working on the OT now
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
So did anyone else read this as Lord of Manga?
You won't regret it. It's worth the price of admission for the soundtrack alone, as far as I'm concerned -- this game has frigging AWESOME music.
-Tom
kunonabi
Member
Will we able to turn the voices off?
Velcro Fly
Member
Been into SRPGs lately with Devil Survivor 2 and replaying Fire Emblem. Thinking about giving this a shot. Art style to me looks like the perfect summer time game. Characters look so bubbly and full of life.
Too many games to play lol!
Too many games to play lol!
Not 100% sure, but I can't imagine why not. Virtually every game in existence these days has a volume slider for voice-acting, which you can just slide down to 0 if you really want to.
I'd say give the voices a chance, though. They might grow on you.
-Tom
Hero of Legend
Member
Who composed the music?
Dark_castle
Junior Member
The chibi character model.
Morita Tomoko, same composer for RF, so the music should be good.
Same composer as the Rune Factory games, though only a few tracks sound anything like Rune Factory -- apparently, the composer was directly inspired by Falcom Sound Team jdk and the Bravely Default soundtrack, and modeled this score accordingly. And you can definitely hear those influences.
Because chibi is cute and underutilized in video games. I wish more games featured characters that looked like this! For me, it's always a selling point.
-Tom
Hero of Legend
Member
Going by Giant Bomb, that person also worked on D4. Is this the same person, as that person also worked on Neverland games like Lufia, so is the composer now freelance or at Marvelous and D4 was by another person?
Character trailer has been posted. Good way to get an early listen when it comes to the English VA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OXu439sxyc
Most sound pretty decent; the only one that may grind my nerves is Gabriele. Either way, day one, farewell free time, etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OXu439sxyc
Most sound pretty decent; the only one that may grind my nerves is Gabriele. Either way, day one, farewell free time, etc.
Undead Bokun
Member
The battle system in this looks like a ton of fun. That coupled with the soundtrack secured my preorder. Looking forward to trying this out.
I believe in you, Tom. Now that Mirai DX was delayed, now I'm definitely getting this.
weevles
Member
kunonabi
Member
It's not so much the quality of the voices I just hate waiting on them when I can read much faster than they speak which saves a lot of time when dealing with large amounts of text in RPGs. I only listen to Japanese voices since I'm trying to work on my listening comprehension.
I see I'm not the only one here. Glad to know that.
Jawmuncher
Member
Didn't even know about this. Glad the thread was bumped.
I was excited for it before too, don't get me wrong. I just had to shift my hype to something. This game + Operation Abyss = no free time ever.
