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The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel is Listed on GAME Retailer
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Robert at Zeboyd Games
Banned
I would assume different teams are working on them. It would also make sense that the newer game is a higher priority and so would receive more staff/time/money.
Yes, when XSEED localized a few Bandai Namco games.
What sucks is that Ao is supposedly really, really, REALLY good and better than Sen, from what I know. I wanted to play the Crossbell duology more than I wanted to start with Sen from how many good things I hear about it.
coredecepts
Member
If we're going to get more games in this series in a more timely fashion, XSEED will need to hire or contract with more people. I wonder how the economics of it works out. FC barely sold enough to justify SC, right?
FC's lackluster sales were, at the time, attributable to the fact that it was a PSP game. When FC hit Steam it got more sales than it ever did on the PSP quite quickly.
I hope that's true. Less pervy games, more Falcom.
Thank you! Crossing my fingers this localization is indeed a go.
Not in this constellation afaik. TitS FC was handled by Ghostlight in Europe. Ys Moc was published by NISA.
BlowoverKing
Banned
Ever since hearing some of the OST for this game last year I've wanted to play it very badly. Hopefully the date is true and it is coming out this year.
Regarding Namco "publishing," it's probably just an error/placeholder.
These are all from NIS America, but have Namco listed:
Danganronpa Another Episode - http://www.game.es/Product/Default.aspx?SKU=114533
Dungeon Travelers 2 - http://www.game.es/Product/Default.aspx?SKU=114537
Lost Dimension - http://www.game.es/Product/Default.aspx?SKU=114531
Given NISA distributed Akiba's Trip for XSEED, it's possible they'll do the same for Sen no Kiseki.
These are all from NIS America, but have Namco listed:
Danganronpa Another Episode - http://www.game.es/Product/Default.aspx?SKU=114533
Dungeon Travelers 2 - http://www.game.es/Product/Default.aspx?SKU=114537
Lost Dimension - http://www.game.es/Product/Default.aspx?SKU=114531
Given NISA distributed Akiba's Trip for XSEED, it's possible they'll do the same for Sen no Kiseki.
The leak comes from GAME Spain.
Bandai Namco distrubuted physical copies of Ys: Memories of Celceta in Spain along with NISA.
I really hope this won't affect localization of XSEED own games. I mean Marvelous games. Marvelous has been creating awesome games lately and all of them need to hit west. Popolocrois, Luminous Arc, Senran Kagura Estival Versus and IA/VT. And now we have Net High.
Still, I'm getting this day 1 on Vita. Hopefully in 2016 because I want to play Estival this year.
Still, I'm getting this day 1 on Vita. Hopefully in 2016 because I want to play Estival this year.
But why would Falcom even want to abandon the partnership? The renewed interest in their games is pretty much 100% thanks to XSEED, who bothered to update Falcom's old PC games to great success when Falcom thought that there wasn't any money to be made on PCs. Not working with XSEED any longer sounds like something that would be very shortsighted and not in their interest.
I doubt that anyone is happy with the TitS 1 and 2 clusterfuck, but with TitS originally just not selling very well, I don't really see what XSEED could have done differently in the end. Putting more resources into SC just wouldn't have been financially viable.
Anyway, it will be very interesting to see how the market will react to Cold Steel. With the PS3 on its way out and the Vita not being super popular either, I'm not quite sure if it'll end up selling enough copies. I definitely hope so, though.
If Falcom really wants to push Trails in the west, they'd probably need to port it to PS4 and/or PC, though.
I don't know how much of the translation was done by Calpe Fulgur in the end (considering all the drama that surrounded the project), but at least SpaceDrake previously stated that he wants to work on something different after SC is completed before jumping back into the franchise.
For what it's worth, he also said that they don't plan to outright skip any games (or just not 3rd, not quite sure anymore), but that they might prioritize other Trails games over it for the time being. This was before people discovered the Cold Steel website.
Ah okay, thanks for the clear up. It would've been an interesting if they teamed up to work on the series.
Mauricio_Magus
Banned
Oh right, forgot about that.
Of course, XSEED would have to do the same fantastic job overseeing/translating the series they've been doing - Tom's been keeping an eye on Carpe Fulgur's work and making sure they don't mess with things, it would definitely be quite a job trying to rein in the meme-tastic NISA translation team.
coredecepts
Member
BassForever
Member
My hope is that once they catch up with Trails in the Cold Steel, they'll go back and fill in the gaps with Trails in the sky 3, zero, and ao
Falcom has been Sony platforms only with third party Chinese hackjob ports for the Chinese market's PCs for years and years now. The last straight up PC game they released that wasn't just an updated version of one of their older PC games was Zwei II in 2008.
Speaking of Zwei II, I still suspect XSEED bought the fan translation right before it was completed so they could release it on steam. Maybe that'll hit this year too.
Not letting XSEED have a monopoly on Falcom games would be a good start. Other companies have expressed interest in Falcom games, but the deals have not gone through at least partially due to the relationship with XSEED.
SpaceDrake is an editor, not a translator, and I'm sure Carpe Fulgur will be working on other stuff going forward.
Robert at Zeboyd Games
Banned
I wonder if we'll get a Steam release as well, then?
Space Medafighter X
Member
Please be true, I love the first game!
Disgaeamad
Member
Hopefully not on anything related to Kiseki considering how spectacularly SpaceDrake's desire for fame backfired and messed SC up.
I don't know about your japanese, but I am going really slow on SC. A lot of kanjis and some that aren't very common. Not difficult to understand what is happening, but I am missing on some details.
Gotta speed-up, since I want to play those before the english release.
Augemitbutter
Member
didn't expect to play this anytime soon. bigger chance now!
It's finally happening. And it's nice to see Bamco involved, they're stepping up their game.
Edit: Oh, right, it might be an error. It's actually pretty common even on Amazon to have Bamco listed instead of NISA.
Edit: Oh, right, it might be an error. It's actually pretty common even on Amazon to have Bamco listed instead of NISA.
There's no existing PC version and I doubt they have the resources to port it there just for the west considering how many games they're working on.
What the in the bloody seven seas is the fuck happening?
So much Japan, so much love. Someone kick me in the nuts because all these "announcements" as of late must mean I'm either in a coma and dreaming.
But what is weird is that NAMCO part....
ayepp. But man, I've played the games...I buy the games and I understand 1% of the games but I still play them badly
So much Japan, so much love. Someone kick me in the nuts because all these "announcements" as of late must mean I'm either in a coma and dreaming.
But what is weird is that NAMCO part....
ayepp. But man, I've played the games...I buy the games and I understand 1% of the games but I still play them badly
Yeah, seriously. Stella Glow, Lost Dimension, Legend of Legacy, Summon Night 5, Youkai Watch, Bravely Second, TitS SC, Sen No Kiseki... Those were all "up in the air" or even unthinkable in some cases, yet here we are.
Meanwhile, S-E can't be bothered to give Dragon Quest any attention... -.-
Wonder if it really is a "prestige" thing or that they just don't posses the localisation muscle for them. Still, DQ:H is better than nothing. Just hope the Japanese VA will come with it. Even if it is a Pre order bonus I want it
Will of course try out the English ones but man Yangus in Japanese is like heaven.GifGafIsTheBestGaf
Member
im glad i didnt sell my ps3
SatelliteOfLove
Member
Steady...don't fanboy out quite yet...
Still, those financials of Nihon Falcom may pay off in support (or pressure apparently?)
If this comes true (before the next ice age trololololol), then Ma Mama, we're ALL crazee now!
Still, those financials of Nihon Falcom may pay off in support (or pressure apparently?)
If this comes true (before the next ice age trololololol), then Ma Mama, we're ALL crazee now!
Dragon1893
Member
Great news, I'll go with the Vita version.
I hope the other games get localized eventually.
I wonder how sales will be considering it's releasing on 2 dying platforms.
Looking at FC's PC sales, a PC version would probably do more than PS3 and Vita combined.
I hope the other games get localized eventually.
I wonder how sales will be considering it's releasing on 2 dying platforms.
Looking at FC's PC sales, a PC version would probably do more than PS3 and Vita combined.
It could happen but i doubt that xseed would do the port they lack the manpower for it.
related from a recent interview with Nihon Falcom's company president Toshihiro Kondo
I haven't even played Sen but I just gotta think they're killing their fanbase going FC/SC/Sen 1 since FC, the first half of SC, and Sen 1 are all the slowest games in the series. I'd have to guess a handful of players are just gonna write the series off with those.
Pellegri Testament
Member
They'd be killing their fanbase anyway if they decided to release 3rd/Zero/Ao first and then move onto Sen without ports being done for it. It's either get Sen out within the next decade and have some sort of sales until a port is ready, or come out with the other 3 first and risk Falcom not even giving 2 shits about anything but mobile by the time Sen is ready, just like every other Japanese company. The other 3 games can quite likely be gone back to when they don't have nearly as much on their plate as they do now.
I would honestly doubt that enough of the fanbase even cares to play everything in order, at least not as much as they do actually seeing the games come out in the first place. For most fans in the West, FC was their first Trails game, they will not suddenly bail out of the series just because they skipped the games in the series that are not required to actually understand the story in Sen. None of this really matters all that much to begin with though, not when we have still only seen a single LoH game that had mentionable sales. If SC somehow bombs, then the series is dead and buried even without any other releases here. A single worthwhile release so far, is not enough to start complaining about whether or not they should release X first or Y.
