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Translations of wapanese games

CryptRat

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I've completed the game, I really enjoyed the setting but objectively I'd say the game is OK at best, it never really opens up, there's less variety that what the first parts suggest. If you take your time then the game is a cakewalk, I can imagine you'll have a more fun experience if you rush and/or flee from battles but to me that and the huge linearity were two big flaws.

The settings and story are cool, they're the main reasons to play the game and didn't disappoint as far as I'm concerned.

The game looks good. They're many skill animations, I like how some attack marks stay on the battlefield, some are funny, like how you run or how a confused character looks. Each weapon also has its own animation. Some monsters look cool. The music is unequal but some tunes are nice.

Exploration is very linear, you always only have access to the next location, you can get back talking to NPCs for some reward and there are a couple of generic optional caves at the end but nothing to be enthusiastic about. At least by the end you can look for the next location and vaguely enter the others, that's something I guess. Besides I've no problem with backtracking and there's not even a lot of backtracking in the game but sometimes I felt it was brung the worst possible way.

Equipment variety is decent, it does increase in power but weapons especially have different effects and you sometimes have several different parts to choose from. There are even a couple of special weapons with low stats which I never tried to figure out how they work. Besides I never had far too much gold so if you play quicker than I do then you probably can't buy everything you want. I didn't exactly notice what's optional and what's not but I think there are more than potions (items permanently increasing a stat and such) in corners and if I had any reason to use strong healing items it would be even truer.

Skills are distributed between :
- psycho skills (basic elementary and healing spells) which partly differ between characters
- special skills, unique to each characters, and I assume at least I missed some of those
- chakhra skills. You freely assign a school to use and a school where to put earned CPoints (which can be different) for each character.
As I advanced through the game I felt like you would get a large variety of different skills, and the same can be said about enemy skills, but ultimately I'd say not more than average. There's some cool twist about character customization at the end but otherwise halfway through the game you've seen everything the game has to offer.

I never faced any challenge, because character levels are too important so it surely depends on how you play. I used some skills but the problem is not damage my party made, it's that opponents couldn't really harm me.

You can fail at the beginning of the game like in the Metal Max games, that's funny. And overall the game is often funny anyway.

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There's a a post-credit encounter where it seems you need to do something special but I haven't figured it out yet.
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CryptRat

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I watched the video to look for action games I can play without knowing Japanese, but by the way if someone is interested only in the RPGs, most of them are here (but TRPGs, other strategy games and various Daikoukai Jidai games are not listed), even those you can already play one way or another :
- London Seirei Tanteidan :
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- Momotarou densentsu (it seems to be a remake of the NES one, but it looks really nice) :

- Popolocrois Monogatari II (the first game and a rogue-like version are also on PSX, and I think the PSP one is another game, not a remake of one of those, I like the art in this series) :
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- Wizardry - New Age Of Llylgamyn
- Dragon Quest IV
- Growlanser
- Linda Cube Again (currently getting translated) :
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- G.O.D. - Growth or Devolution
- Mitsumete Knight R
- PAL - Shinken Densetsu (very cool art, you're starting as a dog who'll then be turned into a man)

- Tales of Phantasia
- Little Princess - Marl Oukoku no Ningyou Hime 2 (the sequel to Rhapsody : A musical adventure) :
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- Atelier Elie (the PS2 remake is translated and it looks cool, but so does this version) :
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- Ore No Shikabane O Koete Yuke (multiple versions of this one, I don't think any is translated) :
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- PopoRogue
- Ganbare Goemon - Uchuu Kaizoku Akogingu
- Wizardry Dimguil
- Shinsetsu Samurai Spirits (or Samurai Shodown RPG), multiple versions, all look cool, translations are getting worked on but I'm not sure any complete one is available yet :
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- Dragon Quest Monsters 1&2
- Boundary Gate - Daughter Of Kingdom (two versions, mobygames has screenshots of the PC-FX version), looks very cool :

- Community Pom (looks like a fun action-RPG) :
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- Shin Megami Tensei 2
- Atelier Marie Plus
- Brave Prove :
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- Baroque
- Devil Summoner - Soul Hackers
- TwinBee RPG
- Waku Puyo Dungeon - Ketteiban
 

yes plz

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Pathfinder: Wrath
Elemental Lords looks more complex than I thought it'd be. Seems to have various routes and branches depending on your dialogue choices and performance throughout the game. They also released a slightly updated patch for Alpha Gaiden.

But still no Alpha.

:x
 

Sigourn

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Ganbare Goemon Gaiden 2 has apparently been translated, but the translation is yet to be released (would apparently be released at the end of August). It's the second of two Ganbare Goemon JRPGs for the Famicom, with the first game already translated by the same person. Haven't played neither of them so I can't vouch for their quality.
 

deuxhero

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:hmmm:

It took me about a year to sift through PC98 games, I won't even start actively looking at PSX lists

but Mizzurna Falls I took note of a while ago


A lot of these were in English on another system when this was published, some even officially.
 

Nostaljaded

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Tested the Taikou Risshiden V ENG translation.
Don't think it's in a playable state yet as intro, in-game tutorials and quite a fair amount are still in CHT.

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For posterity purposes, here's the base game download link for the ENG patch.

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(if can't access link, it's likely to be your DNS issue.)

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- Did a virus scan on the 2 main exes but can't vouch whether the entire package is totally clean
- Advise to apply the 100% ENG save patch to unlock everything.
If the essential in-game texts are all translated, recommend ENG players to give it a go as to why KOEI games till around that period are so highly regarded; developers too for its galore of not-the-usual kind of game mechanics/mini-games.


Taikou Risshiden IV 太閤立志伝IV (PC) is another KOEI untranslated gem.
 
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Grauken

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CryptRat How did you find out about that, I saw it when I went to the translators homepage due to his involvement with Lady Sword, but otherwise I wouldn't have seen it. Do you scour translator group pages regularly?
 

CryptRat

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They'll eventually put the patch on romhacking but recently I have been specifically checking their site regularly because the translation of Super Shell Monster Story 2 could be completed soon, and if the second game is as good as the first one then it's totally worth one playthrough, and by the way they're very active.
The other translators' site I check is Aeon Genesis' because he has been very active posting news recently.
 
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Grauken

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Yeah, just brought out the final 2.0 patch for Laplace no Ma, wish someone would do the PC Engine CD version, which is a blobber
 

spekkio

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