Rhythm & Gaming Obscura

There’s no easy way to go about this, so I’ll get right down to it. As any long-term to short-term followers know, my long-term partner in crime has been the legendarily multi-talented and multi-tasking, EsperKnight. I’ve recently been informed that he’s taking an indefinite hiatus from the fan translation community and has effectively retired. I can’t put this in any uncertain terms:…

As an avid fan of the classic original for the past, oh, couple decades, I’ve been with this series through a lot. I love the Disgaea games(at least until they went off a cliff with 6), I played Rhapsody at release, and I even played the god-awful DS port. If you don’t know how that debacle went, I’ll spare you the sordid details. Suffice it to say, the recent port of Rhapsody 1 to modern…

If you’re reading this, you probably know by now that GungHo is finally bringing ports of the PS1 Lunars to modern consoles as a ‘Remastered Collection’. You probably have also heard that they’re keeping much of the original script thanks to Victor Ireland(of Working Designs) having licensed it out. You also probably know that they’ve recast everyone, since Vic still owns the rights to the…

The past few years have been interesting, to put it lightly. Our two major projects are behind us; one taken over by another team, another finally progressed to full release after upwards of a decade. So while this means a lifetime of drama and anticipation are in the rear-view, where to go from here? Yes, Ms. Alien, I know you have a question, please wait warmly. Well, for one thing, we have…

No, like, but really. It’s here. CCC is done. It’s okay, take a second to process that. With that done, BB hacked us and uploaded the patch to the Moon Cell we have finished the testing phase with everyone completing the game, so we’ve got no reason to hold onto it anymore! With just how many years this project took, I wanted to give anyone who wanted to a moment to say a few words (okay some…

Fate/Extra CCC Editing Reignition Aria here, back in CCC land. It’s been no secret that progress has been glacially slow. Weleft too few people in charge of editing the entire script, and life made things difficult for them tomake much progress. We didn’t reach out in a timely matter to see if they needed help, and theydidn’t want to disappoint us, so unfortunately, we let that go on for too…

Where do I start with this crazy game? Serial Experiments Lain was made in 1998 as a companion piece of sorts to the legendary anime of the same title. The game follows the same basic premise as the show: a disillusioned young girl slowly becomes more engrossed with the internet, and eventually finds it takes over her world entirely, both in the literal and spiritual sense. What makes the game…

Fate/Extra CCC – 2022 Update

Aria here, hope everyone’s having a good holiday season! I haven’t been keeping up with FGO, but if it’s roulette harvesting time, then don’t make yourself sick from all those golden apples ;_;. We’ve received several “oh no the project’s dead” messages lately, so I hoped to alleviate some concerns with a holiday post. If you’re unaware, we have a progress tracker running at…

[Post-Mortem] (Devil Summoner) Soul Hackers 2

[Post Mortem] Dragon Force II

I’ve owned Dragon Force II for nearly twenty years, and after aeons of struggling on and off with various characters over the past decade or two, I finally finished Bozack’s campaign. I should precursor this with a known fact: Dragon Force is the greatest SRPG ever made. It was like nothing else for the Saturn, or any system of the era… or ever, for that matter. Massive armies of 200+ troops…

Persona 2: Eternal Punishment PSP Update

As you hopefully know by this point, another team released an official patch for Persona 2: Eternal Punishment’s PSP version yesterday, fully translating the game, all its menus, and the Tatsuya scenario into English. https://github.com/sayucchin/P2-EP-PSP/ Myself and the others working on our version were completely blindsided by this, and had no idea it was in the works until it came out,…

Fate/Extra CCC Translation Reaches 100%!!!

Aria here, and you read that right! Mere days after finishing my 2nd playthrough and finishing the voice lines and in-dungeon lines, JS dropped the rest of the CCC main script translations in one fell swoop! We’ve updated the checkmark on the progress website, but we haven’t finalized a way to track the editing phase yet. Please give us some time to find out how to best present this next leg of…

[Devil Summoner & Soul Hackers] So, just who ARE the phantom society, anyway?

Anyone familiar with the Atlus SMT spin-offs known as the Devil Summoner games are probably familiar with their eclectic primary antagonists: the Phantom Society. The game says very little about them apart from giving them a sprinkling of screen time here and there, so without further ado, my attempt at piecing together what little we know… which is actually quite a lot. Who are the Phantom…

[Post-Mortem] Shin Megami Tensei V

Boy, do I have some opinions about this here SMT game. Where do I begin? SMTV is a game of blessings and curses. I’ll start with the good. The gameplay is top shelf. Press turn is back, which is nothing surprising, but in addition, Atlus added an absolutely unprecedented insane amount of customization. There’s new physical skills, new magical skills(and a new tier, -barion), skills that let…

[Post-Mortem] Death Come True

I love FMV games. Been playing them since the ancient times of Night Trap and Sewer Shark and well into the modern FMV renaissance, from high production value gems like Late Shift to no-budget schlock like Press X To Die. It’s about time Japan threw their hat into the ring. https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/death-come-true-switch/ As has probably been known, this quirky experiment was…