Monday 1 February 2016

Japanese video game English localisation news - 52

Featuring:

  • Stranger of Sword City (Vita / Xbox One / PC)
  • Aselia The Eternal (PC)
  • Kishin Douji Zenki: Battle Raiden (SNES)
  • Danganronpa (PC)
  • One Piece: Burning Blood (PS4, Xbox One, PS Vita, PC)


Stranger of Sword City (Vita / Xbox One / PC)


As I mentioned a few weeks ago, this is a dungeon crawler (old school, grid based).

A lovely characteristic of this game is that you can choose between two art styles - both very much Japanese style artwork, but one more fantasy and the other more anime. Both look great to me. And I mean that!

As far as I can tell, the Xbox One version and the Vita version are being handled separately. The original developers (Experience Inc) are handling the Xbox One version, NIS America are handling the Vita version and I have no idea whether the PC version in English is still going ahead, but it has been leaked to show beta testing in SteamDB.

The Xbox One version is still on track for launching on March 22nd.

Here is its official website: http://drpg-sosc.com/
And trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGiN4gtt8nc

The Vita version is delayed.

"Publisher NIS has announced that the game will now launch on April 26 in the U.S and April 29th in Europe on Playstation Vita."

Character trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mna7ezUJdxE

I have a feeling that the Xbox One version is likely to end up being superior. But I would probably prefer to play it on Vita.

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Aselia The Eternal (PC)


Otherwise known as "Eien no Aselia -The Spirit of Eternity Sword-".

JAST USA have got this old SRPG game of theirs up on Steam Greenlight.

VNDB: https://vndb.org/v74

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, they have its sequel Seinarukana due for release soon as well.

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Kishin Douji Zenki: Battle Raiden (SNES)


Remember this old anime series? I used to really like it. At least the first few seasons.

Someone's fan-translated this SNES game after all these years! (Info)

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Danganronpa (PC)


Has a release date for PC, it's Feb 18th.

Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/413410/

Please don't be put off by horrid dub in its trailer on the page, it's listed as having full audio in Japanese too where it has an all-star cast and sounds fantastic.

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One Piece: Burning Blood (PS4, Xbox One, PS Vita, PC)


Release dates:

Japan: April 21
North America: May 31
Europe: June 3

North American pre-orders will include “Aero Luffy,” “Kung Fu Luffy,” and “Fourth Gear Luffy” as playable characters.

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Finally, they've announced that Final Fantasy 15 will have its release date announced on March 30th. That's not when the game will be out, but when they will announce when it will be out. XD Talk about playing it slow!!