AlexFlame116
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As someone who has all three, this one isn't available in English as far as I know. A Vita can't translate a Japanese game by itself.
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Seiken Densetsu 3 seemingly coming to Switch (no localization news)
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He was talking about Legend of Mana on PSN, which is in English.
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You can also get Seiken Densetsu 1 (Adventures of Mana) on PSVita PSN. Basically it's a remake of the GB version. Same system and same everything except for the graphics which is 3D:
You say that as if this SNES game won't be on PS4 too.
Fredrik
Member
Oh... I never thought it would be that complicated. I just thought you could go japanese word-swap-english word, kind of. :/
Then we'll never see it in english. Bummer.
Kain-Nosgoth
Member
Seiken densetsu 3 is the best mana ever made in my opinion! Really strange to me that square-enix never remade it in some way, considering they remake every fucking games!
Everyone should play it, even if it's only on emulator with fan translation!
Everyone should play it, even if it's only on emulator with fan translation!
Blackage
Member
I tried to get into Legend, it was pretty and had great music, but I didn't enjoy it as much as 1 2 or 3. The remake 1 got recently was great/faithful yo original though.
mickagau33
Member
It reminds me how bad I wanted to love the game back in the days when it came out on SFC...but just couldn't.
Sgt. Kabukiman
Banned
I played a fan translation of this years ago, it was absolutely fantastic. I'd love to revisit it and actually have the opportunity to pay for it this time. The Mana series used to be so damn good...
obviously SE isn't going to do this, but the fan translation is competent. The game would basically be ready to ship with it
SD3 is such a great game. One of the very best SNES titles
SporeCrawler
Member
i thought legend of mana and sword of mana was okay
Muchi Muchi Pink
Member
Wonder if this is some port rather than VC and if so, would people buy it at a higher price?
There were plenty of circumstantial factors going against a SD3 localization at the time, such as the length and scope of the game, and the fact that it was a really late SNES release that would have overlapped with the rise of the Playstation, stuff like that.
But the actual true reason it got killed is that SD3 is absolutely broken to hell and back on a programming level and fixing it for an American release would have been highly cost- and time-prohibitive for Square's American operation.
Square Enix: ¥4880 please and thank you.
This here alone would make Switch worth owning if they finally wised up and localized this.
Little Famassu was so confused & disappointed when I saw preview(s) of this in Super Power magazine back in the days, got super-hyped about more Secret of Mana (we played SoM through, like, a hundred times with my big brother, or at least started it over that many times, we didn't necessarily make it through each time before we started again from the beginning ^_^; ) and then it was just never, ever released and I was confused why. Internet wasn't as much of a thing back then and I was pretty young so I didn't know why this game I had seen previews for never arrived until a few years later.
Little Famassu was so confused & disappointed when I saw preview(s) of this in Super Power magazine back in the days, got super-hyped about more Secret of Mana (we played SoM through, like, a hundred times with my big brother, or at least started it over that many times, we didn't necessarily make it through each time before we started again from the beginning ^_^; ) and then it was just never, ever released and I was confused why. Internet wasn't as much of a thing back then and I was pretty young so I didn't know why this game I had seen previews for never arrived until a few years later.
This had just got me thinking too, which SNES/SFC Squaresoft and Enix games have yet to see a Virtual Console release?
This didn't, but appears to be imminent
I can't recall Actraiser 2 being released
Soul Blazer, Illusion of Time/Gaia, and Terranigma never were
Star Ocean never was (presumably not to compete with the PSP remake)
Were there any others?
EDIT: sorry for double post
This didn't, but appears to be imminent
I can't recall Actraiser 2 being released
Soul Blazer, Illusion of Time/Gaia, and Terranigma never were
Star Ocean never was (presumably not to compete with the PSP remake)
Were there any others?
EDIT: sorry for double post
Conrad Link
Member
Surely they wouldn't do this but then this time just not release it in English at some point right? They wouldn't do that, knowing it's such a 'big' game to the fans, one that never got officially translated, while other similar games finally got the treatment, this one that never did, to go and now (seemingly) re-release it on Switch.... only in Japan again, they wouldn't right?
SURELY?
SE PLEASE.
SURELY?
SE PLEASE.
Chittagong
Gold Member
Oh my god. Switch is such a perfect console, that double joycon MP is perfect. If this ever gets localised I'll buy it so hard
Robin64
Member
I mean, you'd hope not, but Square haven't even given a shit about Wii U Virtual Console in the west. Japan has been getting their SNES goodies while we've been denied them all. Thanks Square.
Starphoenix
Member
If this is part of a Mana collection along with the original SNES... I'm in. I'm so in.
AuthenticM
Member
They need to localize it and add online coop. They've said they would do so for Virtual Console releases. This game needs that.
Novel Mike
Member
Seriously tweet this out to SE/NoA get there attention and let them know we want to see it in the west!
Charles Brandon
Member
As much as I would love this to be localised I can't see them doing it unfortunately. I have a translated SNES cart though so I'm good.
sixteen-bit
Member
would love to see a localized version
I think I've played the old translated version enough when I was younger than I can go through this game entirely in Japanese. Very exciting if this does come in any form. I don't have a switch but would you be able to do 3 players on one console say with a pro controller and the 2 joycons?
BassForever
Member
You have to patch the rom to make it 3 player, otherwise its 2p only.
Link_enfant
Member
Out of nowhere.
Literally the last game I'd have thought of when talking about a first possible hint on Switch's VC.
I'm so hyped. Please, please don't forget SD2 and bring it on VC/do a port/remaster that'll do the game justice. Not like this crappy iOS port.
Literally the last game I'd have thought of when talking about a first possible hint on Switch's VC.
I'm so hyped. Please, please don't forget SD2 and bring it on VC/do a port/remaster that'll do the game justice. Not like this crappy iOS port.
Please.
Labombadog
Member
Something something Mother 3....
It still hurts. Well, at least we got a fan translated patch.
YankeeDonB
Member
Awesome game, though it didn't quite have the charm of SoM I'd still happily play it again. Still remember class changing my Valkyrie into a dragon master....
Flakster99
Member
Awesome news folks. Region free is such a nice thing to have, finally. Day 1!
Rad Shadow
Banned
Oh man...
I remember seeing this game in Nintendo Power way back in the day.
The original Mana game had left such a wonderful, lasting impression on me that I was super stoked to play this game.
And then it never came.
I was mega crushed.
Then the rom era came around and I was once again reminded about this game. Early on, no translation, I remember printing out the gamefaqs translation and playing this game countless times with every different party configuration and job classes as possible. So much fun!
Then, the fan translation came out as a patch for the game, so once again I played through this game.
It's so much fun.
If this comes out on the switch, it's a must purchase for me. I could play this game perfectly fine, regardless of no localization.
So hyped!
I remember seeing this game in Nintendo Power way back in the day.
The original Mana game had left such a wonderful, lasting impression on me that I was super stoked to play this game.
And then it never came.
I was mega crushed.
Then the rom era came around and I was once again reminded about this game. Early on, no translation, I remember printing out the gamefaqs translation and playing this game countless times with every different party configuration and job classes as possible. So much fun!
Then, the fan translation came out as a patch for the game, so once again I played through this game.
It's so much fun.
If this comes out on the switch, it's a must purchase for me. I could play this game perfectly fine, regardless of no localization.
So hyped!
Xseed did it for an Ys game or two in the past, but that's about it as far as notable stuff goes.
Soul of the Beast
Member
CAN'T...CONTAIN....HAPPINESS....
Time to learn Japanese.
Time to learn Japanese.
That's not true, the Wii release of the localized Monster World IV is a VC game.
Living Proof
Member
Even though they're unlikely to fix some of the shortcomings/glitches, if they slapped a decent translation
on this game I'd buy it the second it was up on the store, even if the thing went for $60.
I dreamed about this game coming over as a kid long after the SNES stopped being viable, and eventually bought one of those fake cartridges for the SNES with the fan translation patched in to accompany my super famicom copy. Just being able to own it on any hardware in English officially would be wonderful.
Of course, I'm pretty certain they're just taking advantage of the new hardware to release one of the few SNES games SE never pumped out for the virtual console, let alone a re-release iirc, so they wouldn't bother translating it outside of some long-dormant translation that went unused. A full-on remake seems more likely to make the jump to the west.
All this speculation and dreaming for a little clip is pretty dumb on my part either way, that I'm sure of at least
or somehow used the fan translation
lol
I dreamed about this game coming over as a kid long after the SNES stopped being viable, and eventually bought one of those fake cartridges for the SNES with the fan translation patched in to accompany my super famicom copy. Just being able to own it on any hardware in English officially would be wonderful.
Of course, I'm pretty certain they're just taking advantage of the new hardware to release one of the few SNES games SE never pumped out for the virtual console, let alone a re-release iirc, so they wouldn't bother translating it outside of some long-dormant translation that went unused. A full-on remake seems more likely to make the jump to the west.
All this speculation and dreaming for a little clip is pretty dumb on my part either way, that I'm sure of at least
Oh... I never thought it would be that complicated. I just thought you could go japanese word-swap-english word, kind of. :/
Then we'll never see it in english. Bummer.
Here some good read on localization process
http://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2009/07/24/atlus-explains-video-game-localization/
http://h-protagonist.tumblr.com/post/133766547738/how-the-sausage-gets-made
Square Enix can probably skip a few steps, but still a long process
OmegaDL50
Member
Oh... I never thought it would be that complicated. I just thought you could go japanese word-swap-english word, kind of. :/
Then we'll never see it in english. Bummer.
A straight Japanese to English translation generally never works. Doing this it comes across as completely nonsensical to a native English reader and you end up with Engrish. Worser you get something super literal and completely bland and end up like the RPGOne / Sky Render FF6 fan-translation which sucks all nuance and characterization out of the dialog and everyone comes across as a machine.
Localization is a very delicate process.
Read this for a bit of better understanding of the process - http://h-protagonist.tumblr.com/post/133766547738/how-the-sausage-gets-made
Edit: Ah, I wasn't aware, t26 posted the exact same link above. It's still a worthwhile read.