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Dragon Force [PS2] coming to J-PSN on 7/25

I bought a 1000 yen ticket from Play-Asia the other day finally had a chance to sit down and play the game today. Currently on the 1st Year / 3rd Month / 3rd Week. I'm already at level 10 with 44 battles fought in the Junon campaign.
 
Nice. This was one of the games that made me want a Saturn after seeing screen shots in magazines back in the day. I got a Saturn now but never picked up a copy... kinda expensive. These days I must say I prefer the style of Tactics or Fire Emblem games anyway.

LOL... Best joke ever.

Tempting... so tempting to get it again... But alas, just a few updated graphics isn't worth playing it without Working Designs masterful localizations...

And in the end, that's why even if this game DID get translated by Sega (it won't) it won't be as good. As much as some people hate on companies that don't translate games 100% accurately, Working Designs made somewhat mediocre games stunningly memorable.

Would Dragon Force have been as good with a more straightforward translation? Probably not. Would the Lunar series have had the cult following it did during the PS1 days? Very very unlikely.

Ah well... Working Designs made the mistake of backing the wrong horse on two seperate occasions and it eventually spelled their doom.

You do realize Sony sealed there doom right? It was there PSX translations, and what Sony pulled on Work Designs that killed them.
 
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