chaosblade
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Their blog post from earlier should answer all your questions.
http://xseedgames.tumblr.com/post/120804314195/the-legend-of-heroes-trails-series-localization
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XSEED announces E3 line-up [Trails of Cold Steel, PopoloCrois, Estival Versus]
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Their blog post from earlier should answer all your questions.
http://xseedgames.tumblr.com/post/120804314195/the-legend-of-heroes-trails-series-localization
Don't worry, they don't really interest me either. I've never been into the Bokujo series, or even really Rune Factory.
But Popolo is different. Popolo is love, and life. And this is as Popolo as they come.
Totally new game, totally new story. Begins on the day of Prince Pietro's 13th birthday.
-Tom
ShinRPGamer
Member
Nice to get a confirmation that I don't need to play Zero and Azure in order to play Cold Steel. I wonder if we'll get a release date for both this and SC at E3?
Pellegri Testament
Member
No chance on CS since according to the blog post they haven't even started QA or VA work on it yet, which I'd assume that's because they're waiting for SC to finish so they can bring over everyone working on it, to CS.. Now for SC I wouldn't expect too many (if any) of those games listed to actually come before it's release.
charlequin
Banned
This was basically my pitch for why Cold Steel getting a US release is a good thing even though it involves skipping forward in the series -- success for TITS SC and TOCS I+II means more US fanbase, which means more likelihood of almost-right-away localizations for future games, which means more chance that it'll be worthwhile to find a way to bring TC/Zero/Ao to PC sometime down the line.
sörine;166613661 said:
XSEED's gotta at least sort of try to pace out their releases, I'd imagine they're just buffering it for when Sara has some bandwidth.
if we were getting dates at E3, i don't see why they'd announce it's coming over now
Portugeezer
Member
Great, thanks for the reply.
Yeah, Sara's pretty busy with SC and the appropriately cursed Corpse Party PC English build right now. Once those are off her plate, the sky's the limit.
-Tom
Too soon to say.
Every game we announced last week and this week is getting a physical release.
-Tom
Velcro Fly
Member
Definitely pumped for this E3 lineup. Not every game is something I'm into but I appreciate the hard work of XSEED bringing all these games over. Gaming would be a dreary experience without companies like them for sure.
ShogunDarius
Member
i'm hoping the games that havent been announced for europe from that lot get announced soon and I hope get physical releases
Seriously, I had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn't dreaming. SK2 and EV in the same year? Oohohoho heellllll yes!
XSEED making dreams come true.
FiveMinuteHero
Member
No PAL release for PoPoLoCrois. Fantastic. And no word for Story of Season either.
You guys are so good to us
It makes me really happy!
I KNOW! I'm so excited!
DarkLordMalik
Member
Thanks for everything Tom, and the rest of the XSEED crew.
You guys made my day yesterday
But Popolo is different. Popolo is love, and life. And this is as Popolo as they come.
Please bring it to Europe, then. Together with the other Story of Seasons game.
Bar81
Member
YAAAAAASSSSSS!
Portugeezer
Member
Oh...
Well, Xseed is not a European publisher, so expecting an announcement for Europe isn't exactly reasonable at this point.
Remains to be seen when and if someone picks it up for Europe.Well, Xseed is not a European publisher, so expecting an announcement for Europe isn't exactly reasonable at this point.
There is no reason why they can't publish those games in Europe by themselves. They are listed as publisher for Rune Factory IV on the European Nintendo pages, so they did it in the past.
Just because they did it in the past doesn't mean they can do it for every game. Saying there is no reason why they can't publish it ignores the multitude of things they have to do to publish a game in Europe.
Here's a refresher sample of what it takes to bring a game to Europe: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=99968774&postcount=83
KuwabaraTheMan
Banned
It sounds to me like there might actually be some issue in Europe with the whole "Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons" kerfuffle, because otherwise it doesn't make any sense.
Portugeezer
Member
Well, Xseed is not a European publisher, so expecting an announcement for Europe isn't exactly reasonable at this point.
I just saw it was coming and forgot we still lived in the dark ages.
That's still only a fraction of the work that must be done to bring a game from Japan to the US. But that is apparently no problem.
I don't think so. Europe always had to wait ages for new Harvest Moon games. A new Beginning launched here almost a year later than in the US- and that one didn't even include other European languages than English. Most Japanese mid-tier companies are just too incompetent, to launch their games here in a timely manner. It's ridiculous, really.
Marvelous Europe tweeted yesterday that they will give out info on EU versions of some of the announced xseed games later
Dragon1893
Member
I love reading these.
Seeing how passionate these people are seriously warms my heart.
As a Trails fan I feel incredibly fortunate that the franchise is in XSeed's hands.
North American company has no problem bringing games to North America, story at 11, not sure how this surprises you. Ask their parent company, they have a European branch.
Looking forward to supporting all 3. And hopefully Dinosaur and the Zwei games at some point too.Yeah, Sara's pretty busy with SC and the appropriately cursed Corpse Party PC English build right now. Once those are off her plate, the sky's the limit.
-Tom
YianGaruga
Banned
For the PS4/Vita games I really couldn't care less about EU releases. If they come to retail close to the US release I'd prefer that, but otherwise importing is no issue. I expect Marvelous EU to publish the Marvelous franchises, namely SK EV, but I'm not going to get my hopes up that they'll release physical copies until they are announced. Hopefully the SK2 campaing was successful enough. There are obviously some issues surrounding Story of Seasons, either localization or licenses, but those will come (if they do) through Marvelous as well. I'm expecting Corpse Party and EDF2 to come here digital only. I'm more annoyed at Nintendo's region locking than XSEED not being able to publish in EU.
The games are coming, you'll be able to buy and play them somehow, and that's what counts.
The games are coming, you'll be able to buy and play them somehow, and that's what counts.
In your link the xseed guy said, that all the development changes are done in Japan and that they only publish the games. So naturally, I was talking about Marvelous there. There is absolutely ZERO reason, why Europe should wait longer for a game than the US, if the publisher has subsidiaries in both regions.
It's also funny that all the stuff the xseed guy throw at you that must be done for a release in another region, are no problem for most Western publishers, which often release their games within weeks or even on the same day in Europe and the US; often including even multiple languages, other than the latest Marvelous releases.
EDIT: With "Lord of Magna: Maiden Heaven" they even showed, that they are capable of doing this themselves. So I really don't understand why they don't do this always that way.
YianGaruga
Banned
Maybe wait for them to announce their release plans before complaining? I'm almost sure that we'll get the Marvelous developed games very timely. So far they seem to be not interested or responsible for the other XSEED localizations so we'll have to hope that someone else steps in.
I'm talking only about Marvelous developed games, of course. Story of Seasons is out in the US for over two months and Europeans don't even know, if they'll get this game at all. All requests by fans are deliberately ignored or answered in a "we have nothing to announce" sort of way. So "very timely" is already out of the question.
I'm confident we'll get it some day, but they could be a little more open and honest towards their European fans.
YianGaruga
Banned
I got a reply from them about SoS just last week. What else can they do if they can't talk about it for whatever reason? There are obvioulsy some issues with the release of that game and not just laziness or ineptitude.
