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Seiken Densetsu 3 seemingly coming to Switch (no localization news)
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What The Forest Taught Me
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This is a day one buy if it gets localized! I've been wanting to play this for two decades!
Well, as long as it doesn't matter to you, I guess our 183,000 other members don't need to see it.
You have an entire game called Legend of Mana to play dude
What The Forest Taught Me
Member
And our combined Twitter requests~
Goddamn that's my favorite wintery soundtrack of any game! I had that played on looI went to an aurora hunting tour, one of the most amazing experiences of my life!
What The Forest Taught Me
Member
Legend of Mana needs to come to Switch as well!
vainglorious
Member
Legend of Mana is criminally underrated. I still listen to its soundtrack its that good.
It's a PlayStation game my dude.
Its 3, given that's clearly a party comprised of Kevin, Duran, and Lise.
What The Forest Taught Me
Member
True enough, but plenty of games that were never on Nintendo consoles originally have made it to their hardware via their digital storefronts. Those titles weren't originally Playstation releases obviously, but one can always hope for a miracle.
RyougaSaotome
Member
I will buy this for my switch thank you very much.
Yeah, I watched again, you are correct.
Nah the first game will be Urban Champion
What The Forest Taught Me
Member
I think you mean Balloon Fight for the low low price of $7.99.
Tarextherex
Banned
Was Sin & Punishment for Wii VC localized or the game was already in english
Anyway very hyped that this game out of nowhere, always hoped it would make it to Wii U or 3DS VC
AcademicSaucer
Member
Man I would pay $40 for a Switch physical version with the original box art and an old school manual.
The voice acting was always in English and Nintendo was just sitting on a mostly localized version of the game before releasing that on virtual console.
Same situation as Mother 1.
If there was one, it wouldn't be for a simple VC release. Seiken Densetsu I and II received Android/iOS ports, and in the case of SK1 a full-scale remake for that as Adventure of Mana that was essentially built from the ground up. If they were planning on porting Seiken Densetsu III for Android/iOS (which they'd hinted at a few times), they'd need to localize it anyway, and could probably justify slapping that script on the old SNES ROM as a Virtual Console release for the Switch while Android/iOS gets the mobile port.
AcademicSaucer
Member
Can y'all respond to that tweet and ask for a localization effort from them? I assume the more people tweeting them about it, the more they may pay attention to our plea
It's a shame we can no longer raid the Japanese Miiverse
The other thing to consider is that comments made in the past indicated that they did actually plan on localizing it back in the day. Depending on how far along those plans got, they could actually have been sitting on a localized script this whole time. Wouldn't be the first time Square dug up something like that to use for a port.
AlexFlame116
Member
I've never played the Mana series save a couple of hours of the SNES one. Maybe it's time to try again.
Why didn't this game get released all those years ago anyway? It's awesome and has some of the best presentation you'll see in a snes game. I've heard they didn't want to take too much focus away from Secret of Evermore but that's an incredibly stupid reason not to release a game.
The fan translation from Neill Corlett wasn't too bad for the time. Wish they would just throw a few bucks his way and release the damned game.
The fan translation from Neill Corlett wasn't too bad for the time. Wish they would just throw a few bucks his way and release the damned game.
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
Even if they dont localize it, it will be mine.
Spyder_Monkey
Banned
This is either:
1. Proof of concept showing that Square can get their old stuff running on Switch.
2. A tease of a re-release for Switch
3. Virtual Console
Either way not a chance in hell this is getting localized.
1. Proof of concept showing that Square can get their old stuff running on Switch.
2. A tease of a re-release for Switch
3. Virtual Console
Either way not a chance in hell this is getting localized.
This reminds me of what could be something important when it comes to whether this could be easily localised or not, at least from a technical standpoint: the iOS port had a fully retranslated French script. The original translation was a very barebone one done by Nintendo of Europe back in the day whereas the new one was done internally at SE.
Seiken 2 and 3 are pretty similar so I guess it could at the very least indicate that they have the tools and knowhow for this.
Some Nobody
Junior Member
The more important question is what happened to the Seiken Densetsu "reboot" the franchise was undergoing? Last year was the 25th anniversary and everything.
Fredrik
Member
It would totally be worth it if it's just a text japanese-english translation, could be done in a few days easily. Japanese-english/spanish/french/italian/etc might not be worth it though but is it needed for gamers these days? we're here at this board from all over the world communicating just fine, I'd say just ignore to non-english languages and let us all enjoy this game.
OmegaDL50
Member
The fan localization for this game took several years and this is coming from some of the most prominent members of the fan translation community at the time.
Nevermind the fact the game itself has 3 entirely different story arcs depending on your party setup, so that is three variations of the story that need translating, not mention NPC dialog, item and shop data and whatever else is required such as status screens for example.
A "few days" is certainly not going to cut it to properly translate this game, especially if SE decides to not use Neill Corlett's translation as a base (Not that they would anyways, even despite the fact it's very good translation even.)
Even a basic text translation would take a few weeks minimum, definitely not a few days, and translation in the sense of properly flowing dialog, error and consistency checking to make sure there is no text overflow outside the text boxes and any other adjustments that may be required.
Megatron
Member
You people asking for legend of Mana.... it's on psn! Go buy a vita/psp/PS3 and be done with it!
There's more to localization than just translating. You also go have to go through the whole game, make sure there is no licensed music or images for example.
There's more to localization than just translating. You also go have to go through the whole game, make sure there is no licensed music or images for example.
AlexFlame116
Member
I think you're missing the point here...
Megatron
Member
I'm really not. Those are 3 awesome systems, pick your favorite/the cheapest, most gaffers probably already have one already. I have all 3.