Tuesday, 7 July 2015

Japanese video game English localisation news - 19

Featuring:

  • Romancing SaGa (SNES)
  • Dragon Quest VII
  • Root Double: Before Crime * After Days 
  • Zero Escape 3 
  • G-Senjou no Maou 
  • World End Economica Episode 2
  • Flowers
  • A Kiss For The Petals -Remembering How We Met-
  • Lightning Warrior Raidy III 
  • Shiny Days
  • Umineko ~ When They Cry
  • Himawari: The Sunflower
  • Beat Blades Haruka 
  • SoniComi 



Romancing SaGa - the 1992 SNES game - has an English fan-translation!

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There are some Dragon Quest VII rumours. Because everyone loves the 7th game in an RPG series, right?

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A bunch of upcoming Visual Novel localisations:

Root Double: Before Crime * After Days (Sekai Project announcement)

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Which is a visual novel by Takumi Nakazawa, the director of Ever17. Sci-fi / mystery, set in the future in a research facility.

I wanted this to come out in English when it was first announced. Not sure if it made waves (sorry) like Ever 17 did, but I still want to read it. Platform isn't mentioned in the article. The original game was Xbox 360 but I would guess this is going to be a PC release....? It doesn't specify.

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Zero Escape 3 (Aksys)

Is the big announcement. From the other creative half of Ever 17.

Sequel to Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (999) and Virtue's Last Reward!

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So happy this got announced!

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G-Senjou no Maou (Sekai Project)

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Is getting a Steam release. Lots of people really eager for this!

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World End Economica Episode 2

Official Trailer

On Steam later this month.

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Flowers (JAST USA)

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Game comes in 4 parts, first is to be released this Autumn.

Totally sounds like if "Maria-sama ga Miteru" was a (murder?) mystery. Sign me up!

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A Kiss For The Petals -Remembering How We Met- (MangaGamer)

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More yuri! One of the Sono Hanabira games is coming out in English and will be on Steam. According to the comments on the article, this one was originally a small mobile-only game and doesn't have any sexually explicit scenes, so that's convenient.

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Lightning Warrior Raidy III (JAST USA)

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Is coming out this August, if all the above yuri is just too romantic and heartwarming and you'd prefer some violent, explicit hentai game instead.

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Shiny Days (JAST USA)

The enhanced version of the sequel to School Days is also coming out in August from JAST USA.

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Umineko ~ When They Cry (Mangagamer)

Is also going to be on Steam. Like what they've done with Higurashi, this is a new version with some new artwork and a new translation.

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Don't know if I'm so interested in this one. Umineko is kind of like watching someone fight themselves and losing.

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Himawari: The Sunflower (MangaGamer)

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PC remake of this is coming out in English at some unspecified date.

We’ll be releasing two versions of Himawari: an adult version available on our site, and an all-ages version available on Steam. Those who order the adult version from us will also receive a free copy of the game on Steam.
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Beat Blades Haruka (MangaGamer)

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By Alicesoft. A game featuring both RPG elements and pornographic scenes.

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SoniComi (JAST USA)

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A Super Sonico boob-watching game. By the sounds of it.