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I was looking forward to this one more than Blue Dragon mainly because the combat looks more interesting. I am going to be buying it on day one (Japan).

Sure the battle shots look pretty bland, but as long as they are fun like Star Ocean battles then I won't care. I'm just happy that this game is actually going to be released for the Xbox 360. With Namco as the publisher I was worried that they were going to delay this thing forever or simply cancel it like they did with Frame City Killer. The 360 really needs a lot more of this kind of game and I wouldn't be surprised if it pushes a lot of hardware.

 

[GreekWolf]

This kind of shit is uncalled for.

I was just teasing with you, which is why I threw in a smiley. Smilies make everything taste like hot buttery popcorn!

 

[sprsk]

I was just teasing with you, which is why I threw in a smiley. Smilies make everything taste like hot buttery popcorn!

:/

 

[Firestorm]

Major Nelson says there's a trailer up on the Japanese Xbox Live Marketplace. Anyone check it out? Is it new?

 

[Revelations]

this is how it looked at TGS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEh8JZ-axBY&mode=related&search=

notice the animation?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5GJh6cck_4&mode=related&search=

 

[Jonnyram]

Major Nelson says there's a trailer up on the Japanese Xbox Live Marketplace. Anyone check it out? Is it new?

I'll check it out tonight, but according to the description on Major Nelson, the trailer is in English? Odd.

 

[{Mike}]

I'll check it out tonight, but according to the description on Major Nelson, the trailer is in English? Odd.

WHat did you expect, japanese? lol

 

[Revelations]

This kind of shit is uncalled for.

As were your original statement. It is agreed then.

 

[Blimblim]

Major Nelson says there's a trailer up on the Japanese Xbox Live Marketplace. Anyone check it out? Is it new?

Damn, I'm at work right now so I can't check it out. Though since Namco just officially released the TGS trailer I don't expect anything more than a 720p version of that.

 

[jaundicejuice]

I can't believe people are arguing this passionately over a Namco rpg.

 

[Flesh Into Gear]

<3

Can't wait

 

[The AnswerV]

Does anyone know about the name of piano music from recently uploaded TGS '06 trailer?

It's almost from last part.

 

[Duderz]

I can't believe people are arguing this passionately over a Namco rpg.

Pretty sure it's got more to do with tri-Crescendo than Namco.

Oh, and the amazing graphics, interesting premise, and the hope that it plays well.

Which goes back to tri-Crescendo.

 

[Takuhi]

Just DL'ed the new Live trailer... It doesn't seem to show anything new, so it may just be the TGS one (which I haven't seen). It starts and ends with Porka (tee-hee!) about to jump at the edge of a cliff.

It looks lovely, though! Nothing super ground-breaking, but certainly pretty. I'm psyched!

 

[Hunahan]

Shaaaooooootingah star!

yeah, it's the same one.

 

[Jonnyram]

WHat did you expect, japanese? lol

Well, you know, since the trailer is only available to download in Japan and everything, yeah

 

[FateBreaker]

I can't believe people are arguing this passionately over a Namco rpg.

I don't even understand this.

I know there are some who despise the localizations they do here, but ... since when do their RPGs suck? I think they publish some of the best ones.

 

[MickeyKnox]

God this game looks so good.
direct feed TGS trailer Hd
http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php?id=17849&type=wmv&pl=game

 

[Aurora]

Can't wait for this game. Looks stunning.

 

[Danielsan]

The game looks absolutely stunning, it's a pitty that the English voices are so horrible though
I want a Japanese voices with English subs option please..

 

[DarknessTear]

I'm lost. English voices are horrible? Are there even any samples of the VA yet?

 

[Mr Jared]

http://digg.com/gaming_news/Hands_on_impressions_and_English_screens_of_Eternal_Sonata_Trusty_Bell

Aside from Polka, I didn't mind the English voices.

...

But yeah, give me the original track too.

 

[Merovingian]

http://www.gamespot.com/search.html?qs=eternal sonata&sub=m&stype=11&type=11

"Eternal sonata official movie 1"

 

[DarknessTear]

Hooooly shit. Polka's voice is terrible. When are they gonna take voice acting seriously?

 

[FrankT]

Just ran across these new videos;

http://media.xbox360.ign.com/media/761/761569/vids_1.html

 

[duckroll]

The fault here lies completely with the poor script and a crap voice director. Whoever edited that script needs to suffer massive damage.

 

[RavenFox]

Bettenhausen must have one hell of on overclocked Dreamcast.

:lol :lol I was in tears man.

Seriously this looks damn awesome. To me anyway.

Something inside of me stirred looking at this pic..

*I need prayer*

 

[Takuhi]

There's a hands-on report on Trusty Sonata Eternal Bell in today's 1Up Yours podcast. It's from Shame, who is the source of the dissing earlier in this thread. And now he likes it, so the trolls will have to find some new avenue of attack. I suggest:

• This game will likely still be inferior to $40 million epics like FFXII in certain aspects.
• Chopin was a pedophile.
• tri-Crescendo is improperly capitalized
• "Trusty Bell?" WTF?
• How good could a game be if it's made by a bunch of sound programmers?

Good luck!

 

[RavenFox]

There's a hands-on report on Trusty Sonata Eternal Bell in today's 1Up Yours podcast. It's from Shame, who is the source of the dissing earlier in this thread. And now he likes it, so the trolls will have to find some new avenue of attack. I suggest:

• This game will likely still be inferior to $40 million epics like FFXII in certain aspects.
• Chopin was a pedophile.
• tri-Crescendo is improperly capitalized
• "Trusty Bell?" WTF?
• How good could a game be if it's made by a bunch of sound programmers?

Good luck!

Wha? *Bails Out*

 

[goldenpp72]

how is the voice acting 'bad' ? It might not be as good as it could be but.. I just don't understand what people want a young blonde girl with pink dress who carries lethal disease to sound like?

 

[Takuhi]

how is the voice acting 'bad' ? It might not be as good as it could be but.. I just don't understand what people want a young blonde girl with pink dress who carries lethal disease to sound like?

Courtney Love?

 

[Blimblim]

Some captures from the marketplace trailer:

 

[Blimblim]

Trailer is encoding

 

[clashfan]

Gamespot has a nice preview up.

http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/rpg/trustybellchopinnoyume/news.html?sid=6167509&tag=topslot;title;1

 

[Merovingian]

Shit this game looks beautifull.

 

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

Nice. And if Shane is to be believed, this game will be coming out in the US sometime this summer BEFORE Blue Dragon. Can't wait.

 

[Blimblim]

Gamespot has a nice preview up.

http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/rpg/trustybellchopinnoyume/news.html?sid=6167509&tag=topslot;title;1

Along with some terrible terrible looking videos. WTH is this with big US not having someone capable of a proper encoding?

 

[Uncle]

Nice. And if Shane is to be believed, this game will be coming out in the US sometime this summer BEFORE Blue Dragon. Can't wait.

In this video:

http://www.gamespot.com/search.html?qs=eternal sonata&sub=m&stype=11&type=11

"Eternal sonata official movie 1"

The Namco lady says that it's scheduled to come out early summer.

 

[Durante]

Can't say that they don't know their target audience :lol

Spoiler

I love it

Also, not just in this shot but in many of them, this is one of the few games where the totally overdone DoF actually enhances the visuals instead of detracting from them. It just meshes so well with the visual style of the game.

Awesome shot. Too bad this looks like a PS2 game

 

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

In this video:


The Namco lady says that it's scheduled to come out early summer.

Sweet. This, Blue Dragon, Mass Effect, and Bioshock. My summer is set.

 

[Blimblim]

OMG, that cutscene video on gamespot gives an horrible idea of the game. It's lacking some voices and (hopefully) a lot of other stuff, it's just totally terrible. If this is the final cutscene direction, urg, this is even worse than Ninety Nine Nights.
Either someone at Namco US shouldn't have shown the game like that, or this will be very bad for the final game. Any way we see it, this really was bad bad BAD!

 

[Durante]

Sounds bad - no japanese audio option = no sale to me level bad. But I sure hope that's over and done with this gen. With machines that can play back MP3s or other compressed audio using about 1% of their total processing capability there's no excuse at all not to support it.

 

[DarknessTear]

Sounds bad - no japanese audio option = no sale to me level bad. But I sure hope that's over and done with this gen. With machines that can play back MP3s or other compressed audio using about 1% of their total processing capability there's no excuse at all not to support it.

Main problem is the cost to bring JP voices to the US version.

Of course things could have changed and I didn't know about it. ;o

 

[Durante]

What cost? I just don't see it. It's a miniscule programming effort, and the material is already there. The biggest cost is probably some additional testing, but even that is minimal compared to all other expenses.

If NISA can do it for all their sometimes incredibly niche releases, I'll continue to maintain that the only reason bigger publishers don't do it is either ignorance of the demand or plain lazyness. (And the demand is there among a significant part of the target audience for these games, that much should be obvious)

If an anime localization company tried to sell a DVD without the original audio track, they'd get laughed out of the house. I very much hope to achieve the same state of affairs in the JRPG sector by the end of this generation.

 

[DarknessTear]

I dunno, maybe they aren't taking localization seriously and if they spent money on bringing the JP VA here they'd be better off paying for voice actors that are actually good instead of bums they find on the street (Bandai Namco pays in booze).

 

[Blimblim]

Here is the 720p trailer, finally:
http://www.xboxyde.com/leech_3636_en.html

 

[duckroll]

If an anime localization company tried to sell a DVD without the original audio track, they'd get laughed out of the house. I very much hope to achieve the same state of affairs in the JRPG sector by the end of this generation.

Square Enix sells more JRPGs in the US than pretty much any anime DVD company. They pretty much set the standard for JRPGs in the US, and their stand has been pretty clear so far.

 

[deadbeef]

Urgh, I just saw that Gamespot interview with the localization director. That's really disappointing that the original voice acting doesn't seem to be included with only English subtitles. I'm still really looking forward to this game.

 

[Aokage]

Square Enix sells more JRPGs in the US than pretty much any anime DVD company. They pretty much set the standard for JRPGs in the US, and their stand has been pretty clear so far.

The standard argument -- that there wasn't enough room on the DVDs for both voice tracks -- could very well have been true in the case of Squeni games last gen. With more efficient sound compression technology (not to mention a hell of a lot more space) it'll be interesting to see what they do with localizations this generation.

 

[clashfan]

******* has a nice handson with the game. Sounds like they love it.

http://www.*******.com/2007/03/16/hands-on-impressions-and-english-screens-of-eternal-sonata/

Ops, I didn't know this site was banned. It's the funstick site for those interested.