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FINAL FANTASY XIII | The Official Import Thread
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RomanticHeroX
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I'm definitely not going to understand the majority of what's happening. I read enough Japanese and have played enough of Final Fantasy in Japanese that I should be able to get through the gameplay stuff without much trouble. Honestly though, Final Fantasy tends to be straightforward enough and has enough documentation that they're probably as import friendly as an RPG can get.VegaShinra said:
Robobandit
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I'll be giving it a go.. will need quite a bit of help, but I'm willing to work through what I don't know and try to make it a learning experience.
The battle system looks like it can keep me entertained for several hours with all of its elements.. so I think this game will be a treat to play.
The battle system looks like it can keep me entertained for several hours with all of its elements.. so I think this game will be a treat to play.
VegaShinra said:
6th year Jgaffer here, with JPLT 1, and a wife I can bug to help explain anything I don't get.
Although, in general if you've played one FF it's usually not to hard to play another. My Japanese skill has sort of progressed through the games, you could say it is one of the reasons I started learning. I went through FF8 not knowing any Japanese when it came out, and finally started teaching myself hiragana and katakana with FF9, and finally started studying Japanese in college around FFX, and played FFX-II while I was studying abroad in Japan. I used the JP client for FFXI for the 2 years I played, and have only played FFXII in Japanese. I kind of want to play it in English since I hear the dub is good, but I would miss the awesome voice that is Norio Wakamoto (AKA the awesome pimpish Al-Cid).
Anyways, things have definitely moved much faster then since around FF8 or 9 when there wasn't much people out translating, and there were much longer periods of time between localization. I'm still amazed that there is only a 3 month turn around for the English version. But yeah, I'm pretty sure there will be the gung ho guy who will translate every bit of conversation out there.
Welp, just took the plunge and ordered the Japanese version. This will be my third import after Rhythm Tengoku and Rhythm Tengoku Gold. This will certainly be more of a challenge but I took a few Japanese classes in college and I'm counting on online guides to get me through the rest. I'm excited!
thetrin
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VegaShinra said:
My kanji is trash, but I learned enough Japanese while living in the country to make getting through RPGs relatively smooth.
(my hiragana and katakana reading is pretty fast)klee123 said:
Thank god for me, I ordered mine ages ago. It's estimated for Dec. 17th.
FacelessSamurai
..but cry so much I wish I had some
I ordered mine a little while back when it was still 84$ and right now I have Preparing Order as status with shipping date on or before december 17th. Hopefully, it is before!
Silicon Knight
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The release of a numbered FF is upon us! I don't know about you guys, but I get all giddy inside. Unfortunately I'll have to wait for the domestic release. 
Great job Kagari!
Great job Kagari!
RomanticHeroX
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They are offering both Japanese and Asian versions, I wonder if the people with later estimated ship dates come from that. I ordered the Japanese version on the 12th and it says mine will ship on or before the 17th.
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Found this. Thanks to dreamsummer of A9VG.
Nice looking crystal.
Nice looking crystal.
RomanticHeroX said:
I ordered the Japanese release, I'm really tempted to cancel it now just to get it somewhere else.
Did you make the order on the 12th of this month? Just wanted to clarify, as I'm really tempted to complain to them. I made the order last month and having the game delayed till after new years is fucked.
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Vect said:
Hmm...I'm not sure. It just says that you get the platinum trophy once you get all tropies. Isn't that typical of all platunum trophies?
It doesn't say anything else about story nor gameplay.
Lé Blade Runner
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I'd love to learn japanese, but I wouldn't know where to start. Online? A book of some kind?
Looking back through the history of the series, I'm very interested to see how this one is received overall and how it ends up being remembered in the long term.
Wrote some observations and musings down here:
The Pressure is on Final Fantasy XIII.
(Had to use Kobun Heat's excellent "Meanwhile..." comic in there too)
But yeah, first main-series FF to blaze a trail onto a new console since FFX, like 8 years ago, and the first pf such generational jumpers to do so under the Square Enix moniker instead of Squaresoft. I've ordered trucks of popcorn.
Wrote some observations and musings down here:
The Pressure is on Final Fantasy XIII.
(Had to use Kobun Heat's excellent "Meanwhile..." comic in there too)
But yeah, first main-series FF to blaze a trail onto a new console since FFX, like 8 years ago, and the first pf such generational jumpers to do so under the Square Enix moniker instead of Squaresoft. I've ordered trucks of popcorn.
sleeping_dragon
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VegaShinra said:
Lé Blade Runner
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hirokazu said:
Thanks - I'll look that up.
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I've got it reserved at my local game shop and will be picking it up at midnight Thursday. I probably won't put it in until the following night due to work, though. I haven't read much about the game, but honestly the story and characters don't really interest me at all from what I have seen. With that said, I have yet to be disappointed by a main title in Final Fantasy series so I fully expect the game to grow on me. Luckily I am totally free on Saturday and Sunday so I will be sinking some heavy hours into the game.
I'm completely fluent and pretty much at a native level, but I started playing RPGs in Japanese even when I was still only at an intermediate or lower level. Keep a dictionary on hand and you can actually learn quite a bit of the language through playing RPGs.
VegaShinra said:
I'm completely fluent and pretty much at a native level, but I started playing RPGs in Japanese even when I was still only at an intermediate or lower level. Keep a dictionary on hand and you can actually learn quite a bit of the language through playing RPGs.
It's obviously finalized by now.Dead Prince
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but wouldn't that go in the spoiler thread? unless it's left in japanese? i would love to see a translated list unless it's heavy spoiler.Kagari said:
oh and playasia needs to charge my card. grr.
badcrumble
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What we REALLY need is to know if there's new game+ or not!Kagari said:
Dead Prince
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please god. let the 2 charges i see on my bank be playasia charging my card {okay they are "charging" the soundtrack too which can be put on hold anyways}
http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.co...apanese-on-your-own-having-fun-and-to-fluencyLé Blade Runner said:
So yesterday my CC gets declined causing my Play-Asia order to stumble = fixed
Today the checkmark next to Tales of Graces that I had it shipping together with disappears and Graces is in "ships in a week" status, which would drag my FFXIII with it. I swear Japan is doing everything possible to conspire that I don't get FF this week
Today the checkmark next to Tales of Graces that I had it shipping together with disappears and Graces is in "ships in a week" status, which would drag my FFXIII with it. I swear Japan is doing everything possible to conspire that I don't get FF this week
RPGCrazied
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I can't read/understand japanese RPGs ;/
Haha! Moms are great!BlazingDarkness said:Nice one!
I went to pay for the import and my mum said 'i'll do it, it can be a stocking filler'
I'm not even importing so mine will be some strange March present just for kicks :lol
I wonder how well it will go keeping away from spoilers.. I knew a lot about XII but that was still a great experience for me..
Still, I think I'll be real serious and try.. I'll have something to look forward to, a reward for keeping up with schoolwork and my.. other.. life goals!
PS. demos are for sissies. This is FF sahrteen mang, you just buy it.
Perfect Blue
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I've been using this for a while and it's really awesome. Highly recommended.Sage00 said:
Perfect Blue
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I believe 7th already made a spoilers thread.Kagari said: