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[Greasy_is_better]

Stupenderrima

[Magnvs]

Non vedo l'ora che esca, per gli amanti dei jrpg classici si tratta davvero di un titolo imperdibile ^^

[Winterfury]

I am still alive, and to prove it, I have drafted a new blog entry. Whatever’s in my eyes, however, still makes “Flag-Hat Bob” hiss at me from a safe distance while on the Silverline Express bus.

The blog has been on hiatus for quite a while now because, well, there was The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky and it does to people much like what a duck will do to an unattended crouton. Previously known as Sora no Kiseki and personally referred to as "THAT game," Trails in the Sky (a.k.a. TitS) (ha ha) has been an all-consuming project for the last ~9 months. Many things happened in those 9 months, but I honestly don’t remember much after June because my survival mechanisms kicked in and helpfully blacked out the experience. I’m told I did finish editing the game, but also that I nominated the cat for the “Special Thanks” section of the credits and once ate several pennies off the counter.

Trails in the Sky... What can I say? It's long. It's so long that many companies have avoided localizing it for years (the body count has always been off-putting for some reason). Conflicting reports put the total game text at ~1.5 million Japanese characters, but all 'I' know for certain is that I worked from home 11-14hrs a day, 6 days/week, lost 7lbs, cut off 18inches of my hair and used the XSEED twitter account to further the cause of bacon on more than one occasion. In the end we had to employ a total of 3 translators, 1.25 editors (myself, and Tom had to jump in the last month to help me finish chapter 4) and one or two other helpful Sora no Kiseki experts that didn’t mind spontaneous Instant Messages asking about whether or not certain characters would be at home saying things like, “Lo! I am hoist with my own petard!” I believe all the translators survived mostly intact, and Tom reports cheerfully from my left as I type this that he sort of misses TitS and also thinks he has Stockholm Syndrome. Our manager, on the other hand, does this kind of thing all the time and just laughs at our weakness.

Anyway, aside from the verbal meanderings of an editor gone crispy in the brain, what does this mean for the game? Well, I'm happy to report that 1) we finished, 2) despite the overdoses of coffee, ingestion of small change and frayed nerves, it's in English and makes sense (probably),
and 3) there's a wealth of material to dole out as we wait for its impending release date. So, here you go! Enjoy, speculate and anticipate as more Trails in the Sky news slowly makes its way out onto the Internets. (More blogs, Q&As, screenshots and facetious tweets to come!)

dal blog di Jessica Chavez, editor del gioco.

http://xseedgames.blogspot.com/

[~Shaoran~]

dopo l'ottimo ys seven, prenderò sicuramente anche la limited del primo trails in the sky...tra l'altro viene venduta ad un prezzo proprio bassissimo... 39$ canadesi corrispondenti a 29€...
poveraccia che lavoraccio che ha fatto per tradurre solo il primo trails e ancora devono tradurre gli altri 2...

[Winterfury]

uppiamo con una classicissima traccia della saga, direttamente da LOH I.



e anche questa, adoro questa opening.



by Makoto Shinkai

Purtroppo le versioni PSP della Gaharv trilogy sono delle cacche, specie le versioni occidentali.

Modificata da Winterfury, 13 February 2011 - 10:23 AM.

[Greasy_is_better]

A parte il casino assurdo con timeline e numerazione che hanno di terribile?

[Winterfury]

A parte il casino assurdo con timeline e numerazione che hanno di terribile?

Zembu

Non hanno più nulla degli originali, la ost è riarrangiata, la grafica è stata rifatta in un modo orrido, il BS è stato cambiato completamente e programmato da degli incapaci e i testi sono stati tradotti alla cazzodicane.
ah si.. rimane il character design...

fanno schifo non a caso la critica li ha massacrati.

Modificata da Winterfury, 13 February 2011 - 01:08 PM.

[Greasy_is_better]

Meno male che questa nuova trilogia pare più fortunata

[Magnvs]

Un po' in ritardo, ma auguri di San Valentino da XSeed e Olivier di Trails

Modificata da Magnvs, 16 February 2011 - 01:37 PM.

[Magnvs]

Interessante intervista di XSeed a RPGamer, con parecchi dettagli relativi a Trails ed al processo di localizzazione.

http://www.rpgamer.c.../loh6fcint.html

[Winterfury]

Meno male che questa nuova trilogia pare più fortunata

ecco qui è spiegato molto meglio.

MAC: The average gamer might not know the real difference between XSEED's Trails in the Sky, which was developed completely by Falcom, and the older Legends of Heroes PSP titles that were merely second hand ports of Falcom games. Any more details you'd like to share about why those who didn't care for those should not be scared away from Trails, how accessible it is to newcomers, etc.?
Tom: This is a great question, and one I was hoping you'd ask!

First, let's go over what's similar here. The Legend of Heroes games, for the most part, are travel stories. They usually take place on one single continent, and involve two characters (who've known each other practically all of their lives) setting off to walk the entire length of the continent on foot, generally in search of someone. Along the way they meet a great many people, befriend lots of townsfolk, and save more than a few days, culminating in some epic finale that ensures their names will go down in history, and from which they will emerge as better human beings. The series title, "The Legend of Heroes," is actually quite apt, as the main characters of each game invariably end up becoming part of something much larger than themselves, cementing their names as folk heroes in their own time.

This is true of the previous Legend of Heroes games on PSP, known as the "Gagharv Trilogy," and it's just as true of Trails in the Sky. It's pretty much the Legend of Heroes formula... and it works. They're epic stories of travel and growth, celebrating the versatility and tenacity of the human spirit.

The problem is, unlike the Ys games – which typically contain just enough story to justify their amazing gameplay – the Legend of Heroes games, you could say, contain just enough gameplay to justify their amazing stories. Most of your time in any LoH title will be spent advancing story scenes and talking to townsfolk... which means you'd better have a DAMN GOOD LOCALIZATION, or the real meat of the game is pretty much spoiled.

Localization aside, though, the PSP Gagharv games were also quite heavily modified from their original Japanese PC versions. Believe it or not, the original games had battle systems that borrowed more than a little from the real-time strategy genre! Imagine a standard JRPG with random RTS battles, and you'll have some idea of how the Gagharv games originally played. The PSP versions completely retooled this battle system, and the end result was unabashedly generic, doing absolutely nothing to stand out from the pack.

Trails in the Sky, on the other hand, has a completely new battle system that's actually quite deep and strategic. It's a big improvement over the original RTS system of the Gagharv games, and an even BIGGER improvement over the generic strategy battles of the PSP versions. Trails is also much less linear, offering a bevy of side-quests and optional dungeons not just at the end of the game, but throughout its entire length. It's basically Falcom reinventing the wheel – or reinventing the Legend of Heroes brand, anyway.

It strikes a nice balance between hardcore and accessible, and as long as you don't mind a game that's about 70% narrative and 30% action, I guarantee you'll be hooked. Heck, all of Japan is pretty hooked, so this game HAS to be doing SOMETHING right, no?

Modificata da Winterfury, 26 February 2011 - 08:31 AM.

[Greasy_is_better]

Hanno messo la premium su AxelMusic 31€+5€ di spedizione

[Magnvs]

Riporto anche qui i nuovi link:

-sito ufficiale (molto bello, organizzato come una guida turistica del regno di Liberl)
http://www.trailsinthesky.com/

-reportage di Joystiq su Dragon Slayer, Legend of Heroes e Trails con tanto di uber-schema esemplificativo (ricordo che i Trails e Zero no Kiseki non hanno legami narrativi con gli altri titoli menzionati)
http://www.joystiq.c...mily-history#/0

-post di Jessica Chavez sul PSBlog per presentare Trails:
http://blog.us.plays...psp-march-29th/

Non vedo l'ora che esca Per chi fosse interessato ricordo che i preorder sono disponibili su videogameplus.ca a 29 EU per la limited e 22 per la regular, oltre che su axelmusic.

[Winterfury]

OUT.

-reportage di Joystiq su Dragon Slayer, Legend of Heroes e Trails con tanto di uber-schema esemplificativo (ricordo che i Trails e Zero no Kiseki non hanno legami narrativi con gli altri titoli menzionati)
http://www.joystiq.c...mily-history#/0

Hmmmm, il settimo Dragon Slayer è the legend of Xanadu...

Modificata da Winterfury, 29 March 2011 - 03:32 PM.

[Magnvs]

OUT.



Hmmmm, il settimo Dragon Slayer è the legend of Xanadu...

Dovrebbe essere addirittura l'ottavo, il settimo è Lord Monarch. Che caos comunque, ed ormai come si diceva altrove la stessa serie LoH finisce per essere solo una formalità, con Kiseki\Trails come vero brand

Comunque se noti nello schema dopo DS6\LoH1 mette un box con "...it goes on!", credo non vada avanti perché a lui in fondo interessa solo arrivare a spiegare la collocazione dei LoH.

Fra l'altro Trails finalmente è uscito, non vedo l'ora di poterci giocare *__*

Modificata da Magnvs, 29 March 2011 - 10:50 PM.