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NIHON FALCOM THREAD: Forward Relentlessly Edition Anonymous 11/18/2023 (Sat) 02:48:20 Id: 3d9289 No. 908347

I was hoping to make it to the shareholders meeting before the old thread got bumped off but it looks like we'll miss it by a couple of weeks. >Latest News -Falcom's 2024 title is all but confirmed to be Kuro No Kiseki 3. We don't have a title or any details yet, though, and likely won't until the shareholder's meeting in December. -Ys X released on Playstation systems and Switch. As of now, no PC announcement has been made. CLE likely will make one going by their track record, but who's to say when. Durante and his team will eventually make one too, as the norm is now for them to release the Japanese PC version and patch in the localization later. Either way, we likely won't see fan translation efforts until a PC version materializes. Thankfully, the Switch version will at least mean easy access to the Japanese script, which was a major problem when trying to translate Kuro 2. Speaking of... -Kuro no Kiseki 2 has had it's main and sub scenarios translated. That is to say, main quest, side quests, events noted on the map and connect events. Most NPCs are still machine translated. This is following Kuro no Kiseki 1 which was completely translated down to the last NPC. This was all done before NISA even officially announced their Kuro localization. As long as they remain three years behind, this should stay the norm. >Fan-translations Kuro no Kiseki 1 Translation: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nN-39bcBkES4Wg-3-rGlRqTARuQhGybB?usp=sharing Kuro no Kiseki 2 Translation: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/120XMXZinIOWUvzyFZj4bZRYBSoZGMChO?usp=drive_link Hajimari no Kiseki Translation (NPCs incomplete. You might also have to use the CLE PC version and not Durante's. Not sure.): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WpcNwWXIAdrEitf7z0nIM6sZF7t3pQmw Ys Memoire: The Oath in Felghana English patch: https://files.catbox.moe/f9gv0g.zip >Undubs Mega of every undub: https://mega.nz/#F!k5ZjwTCD!A4Uyb67OpQQ_qCoB-zvx0g Merge the JP voices and Dummy files into one folder and dump that folder into the voice folder. >Falcom pastebin (download links for scans, Falcom Magazine volumes, soundtracks and more) pastebin.com/G2mswYCt >Previous Thread: https://archive.ph/k1XLz

Anonymous 11/18/2023 (Sat) 03:50:00 Id: bed3c6 No. 908381

Falcom best girl is pic related

Anonymous 11/18/2023 (Sat) 04:00:47 Id: 3d9289 No. 908392

>>908381

Anonymous 11/18/2023 (Sat) 06:38:56 Id: ab2c81 No. 908448

>>908381 COUNTER ATTACK

Anonymous 11/18/2023 (Sat) 07:03:03 Id: 3f9f84 No. 908453

>>908448

Anonymous 11/18/2023 (Sat) 20:28:03 Id: c762c3 No. 908591

>>908347 Why doesn't Falcom give enough of a shit about getting their games into proper english?

Anonymous 11/18/2023 (Sat) 21:00:45 Id: b2406f No. 908614

>>908591 Kondo honestly only gives a shit about the west insomuch as it might give him more money. He probably should care more as his Japanese audience is dwindling and chinks and gooks only give so much. But this is also the guy who insisted that Tokyo Xanadu get a western vita port because it was hit on the vita in Japan so obviously that would be true for the west too, even though the vita fucking tanked in the west. It took him like seven years to realize maybe making games for the Switch, the only console Japanese gamers were playing (you know, his preferred consumers since they always get the games way earlier), was a good idea. He's just out of touch. Luckily for him his games are so cheap to make it hasn't spelled disaster yet.

Anonymous 11/18/2023 (Sat) 22:09:58 Id: a6eb8e No. 908626

>>908614 >his Japanese audience is dwindling Yeah, from what little experience I had talking to Japanese people online, it seems like many of them see Falcom as just a manufacturer of low budget trash. Kind of like how Bethesda is seen on /v/.

Anonymous 11/18/2023 (Sat) 23:08:56 Id: a6f14d No. 908637

>>908626 Anon, I'm not denying it's trash, but Bathesda is most definitely not low budget. Kondo at least has an excuse because he's cheap and his games are cheap. Todd pays money out his ass and his games are still terrible.

Anonymous 11/19/2023 (Sun) 01:21:48 Id: 3eeb49 No. 908700

Here's your drink, anon.

Anonymous 11/19/2023 (Sun) 01:40:52 Id: 85c49e No. 908708

>>908700 Which flavor of Fie was best?

Anonymous 11/19/2023 (Sun) 01:56:49 Id: 3eeb49 No. 908714

>>908708 CSIII for sure. Kuro needs to bring the belly back.

Anonymous 11/19/2023 (Sun) 02:10:27 Id: f215c1 No. 908721

>>908637 >Bathesda is most definitely not low budget Considering they only just now stopped using the Morrowind engine from 2001, I think it's fair to say they're at least cheaper than most AAA studios.

Anonymous 11/19/2023 (Sun) 04:27:16 Id: ab2c81 No. 908761

>>908721 Anon, Starfield is still using GameBryo underneath the Creation Engine marketing.

Anonymous 11/19/2023 (Sun) 04:59:46 Id: 588f84 No. 908769

>>908721 >He doesn't know They're still using Gamebryo anon

Anonymous 11/19/2023 (Sun) 05:21:17 Id: b1ebf0 No. 908782

>>908721 Starfield is still Gamebryo

Anonymous 11/19/2023 (Sun) 05:48:20 Id: 49c51e No. 908793

>>908714 I want to start a family with Fie.

Anonymous 11/19/2023 (Sun) 07:48:57 Id: 3eeb49 No. 908818

>>908793 I want Altina to be my daughter.

Anonymous 11/19/2023 (Sun) 08:40:46 Id: 4f6bf0 No. 908829

>>908708 I prefer her shorts in CS2, but on the whole, I agree with this >>908714

Anonymous 11/19/2023 (Sun) 09:10:43 Id: 7c67ef No. 908833

>>908829 Yeah I like how low they are on her hips. Good showcase of vagina bones on her CS2 outfit for sure.

Anonymous 11/20/2023 (Mon) 02:33:55 Id: 3eeb49 No. 909079

YsX on PC when? Come on CLE.

Anonymous 11/20/2023 (Mon) 03:02:24 Id: 7580e6 No. 909082

>>909079 It's coming with the NISA mistranslation.

Anonymous 11/20/2023 (Mon) 03:13:37 Id: fc000f No. 909084

>>909079 Probably early 2024. They still want that China and Korea money and NISA doesn't deal with those. >>909082 Unlikely. Odds are durante would release a version with just the Japanese script before any localization is done. That's what happened with Nayuta and Kuro 1.

Anonymous 12/15/2023 (Fri) 05:46:35 Id: b52529 No. 918989

The Legend of Heroes: Kai no Kiseki – Farewell, O Zemuria, >“In the year 120X, everything comes to an end.” >C. Epstein, the father of the orbal revolution, prophesized the end of the Zemurian continent. >As “X Day” approaches, a massive orbal rocket is about to be launched from a large military base built in the Kunlun Range. >“Can man make it past the planet’s atmosphere?” >“What lies at the end of the continent?” >“Will mankind be able to uncover the true nature of the ‘world’?” >While the whole world watches to witness the largest undertaking since the dawn of history, somewhere in the singularity that is Ored, forces from all over the land were about to gather, including a young “Spriggan.” >Will the single trail toward the distant heavens ultimately shape the future of Zemuria, or… Looks like they changed the subtitle and Calvard's story will continue with a different name. Alsom look who's fucking back (probably it's still pretty blurry but I want to believe)

Anonymous 12/17/2023 (Sun) 10:49:02 Id: fa981c No. 919471

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>>918989 >look who's fucking back

Anonymous 12/17/2023 (Sun) 17:42:41 Id: b3c1b5 No. 919557

>>918989 onion sisters we are so back

Anonymous 12/17/2023 (Sun) 18:31:35 Id: 7242b9 No. 919568

>>919471 >>919557 I'm hoping this means Ries is back as well.

Anonymous 12/18/2023 (Mon) 00:37:56 Id: 453789 No. 919668

>>918989 KEEEEEEEEEEVINNNNNNN!!!! LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Anonymous 12/23/2023 (Sat) 08:25:47 Id: 24d89e No. 921197

https://nintendoeverything.com/falcom-president-on-graphics-criticism-and-ys-x-nordics-sales/ Can't archive or screenshot because I'm phone posting while on holiday but I just saw this pop up in my news feed, thought it might be of interest to some of you.

Anonymous 12/23/2023 (Sat) 15:13:00 Id: a3470f No. 921257

>>921197 >The same investor briefing also gave us insight into the sales of Ys X: Nordics. Switch accounted for 30 percent of the game’s sales, which was ahead of PS4’s 20 percent but below PS5’s 50 percent. How the fuck? I guess its the fact that Falcom games have largely been on Sony platforms for a long time so that created expectations in the consumer base, but still, how the fuck.

Anonymous 12/23/2023 (Sat) 17:00:41 Id: 73fb3d No. 921268

>>921257 Assuming it isn't some number fudging in the vein of shipped copies counted as sold type shit, my wild guess would be some portion of normalniggers compromising on weebshit hate to get away from the usual agitprop.

Anonymous 12/23/2023 (Sat) 18:25:49 Id: a9a86c No. 921282

>>921257 The insomniac leak actually gave us PS5 sale data. It's about 1:1 with what PS4 was in it's life cycle. As for why Switch didn't sell more units, well it wasn't the cleanest version for sure. It's definitely worse to play. Falcom is niche enough that in Japan the people who would play it probably own a PS5 and would simply choose that version. I also think Falcom waited too long to get into Switch development.

Anonymous 12/23/2023 (Sat) 23:42:22 Id: 8b4784 No. 921391

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Anonymous 12/24/2023 (Sun) 00:09:50 Id: 9f43ad No. 921393

>>921391 He's not a translator, but he is a Nisa shill. Hatsuu came up with the Elaine title, and yeah it's fucking stupid. But it's not like you have to think about that anymore. Nisa will take three years to translate a game. You'll have a fan translation before then.

Anonymous 12/24/2023 (Sun) 00:27:41 Id: caf0a5 No. 921396

>>921391 >translator

Anonymous 12/24/2023 (Sun) 10:43:20 Id: 17d251 No. 921471

>>921393 And as much as people hate the awful English translations many Japanese games get, they're entirely the result of companies not wanting to pay for quality work. Those mentally ill weebs they hire from Discord will work for pennies compared to actual translation studios. This isn't just a problem with Japanese-to-English translations, either, this is an issue across the whole industry. Many of the Alan Wake II translations are downright terrible, the Korean one is especially bad and I've heard the Japanese dub's subtitles are literally Japanese phonetically written into Latin script. Blame stingy devs/publishers and apathetic casuals, ultimately.

Anonymous 12/24/2023 (Sun) 11:22:55 Id: a7ef89 No. 921475

>>921471 >>921396 No I meant he specifically did not work on Reverie or Kuro in any official capacity. He's just a reddit and discord shill. He doesn't actually work on the games. He is not a Nisa employee or a contractor, he's just a cheerleader. But, again, it doesn't really matter anymore. Nisa is irrelevant at this point since fans are already two games ahead of them and Nisa shows no signs of picking up the pace.

Anonymous 12/26/2023 (Tue) 06:27:37 Id: 082961 No. 921850

Merry Christmas, Niggers.

Anonymous 12/26/2023 (Tue) 08:33:04 Id: a9a86c No. 921856

>>921850

Anonymous 01/27/2024 (Sat) 07:45:36 Id: 3c253e No. 930635

CLE's Ys X PC port will release March 13th. We shall see if a fan translation happens like with Trails. On the one hand, much less autistically zealous fanbase, on the other hand shorter script. I've seen some people playing with it and doing proof of concepts at least.

Anonymous 01/27/2024 (Sat) 13:44:14 Id: 598d8e No. 930660

>>930635 Great news. I'm really hoping translators will see the appeal in getting ahead of NiSA on Ys as well as Kiseki.

Anonymous 01/30/2024 (Tue) 09:35:26 Id: c32b48 No. 931575

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>>930660 >>930635 Ys X translation progress (using the Switch script)

Anonymous 01/30/2024 (Tue) 09:55:26 Id: caf0a5 No. 931580

>>931575 huh, guess it's coming along smoothly.

Anonymous 01/30/2024 (Tue) 10:46:47 Id: 41ccb2 No. 931585

>>931575 Does Ys X keep the character swap mechanic from VIII? Also, any evidence this game was poisoned at the root by the DEI ESG crowd?

Anonymous 01/30/2024 (Tue) 11:06:47 Id: 598d8e No. 931587

>>931575 I love these guys.

Anonymous 01/30/2024 (Tue) 11:46:03 Id: b5f6a1 No. 931592

>>931585 >Does Ys X keep the character swap mechanic from VIII? There are two characters and you switch between them. There are no others. >any evidence this game was poisoned at the root by the DEI ESG crowd? Not that I can tell. Falcom is very small and the games take such a long time to localize I doubt there's ANY contact between Falcom and localizers before release. Unless it's the CLE guys, but they also serve SEA.

Anonymous 01/30/2024 (Tue) 11:47:16 Id: b60608 No. 931593

>>931592 They only serve SEA I mean to say. No English localizers touch the game or have any contact before the game's Japanese release it would seem.

Anonymous 01/30/2024 (Tue) 14:36:19 Id: f4cf1f No. 931608

>>909079 >YsX on PC when? Ys X looks good, but when the fuck are they going to release a remake/remaster of Lost Kefin?

Anonymous 02/03/2024 (Sat) 01:25:11 Id: f2804a No. 932801

>Tokyo Xanadu eX+ "enhanced port" announced to be heading west for the Switch <my instinctive first thought is that it's going to be pozzed for ESG/"stakeholder metric" points >having forgotten that Nihei Falcom is only public on TYO and the board was delighted about the port on PC back in 2017 turning out well and making Klaus Schwab and Yuval Harari red with anger God help me, my brain is boiled.

Anonymous 02/03/2024 (Sat) 03:26:15 Id: 2f1f7c No. 932835

>>932801 TX has one of the worst localizations in modern Falcom (yes, even more than Nishit) so I find it hard to believe they could make it worse. In another news Kuro 2 is finally fully translated. For some reason the people running the google drive link are being really fucking slow, so here's a link to the new stuff: https://files.catbox.moe/emb71s.zip

Anonymous 02/26/2024 (Mon) 07:39:44 Id: 598d8e No. 939764

FUCK RENNE

Anonymous 02/26/2024 (Mon) 07:47:39 Id: 6af3cf No. 939765

>>939764 It would be my pleasure.

Anonymous 03/09/2024 (Sat) 19:31:11 Id: 9ea895 No. 944366

New Tokyo Xanadu next year, which holds to the pattern of Falcom making Xanadu games in years ending in "5." Seems to be a completely new cast with only Rem being a recurring element.

Anonymous 03/11/2024 (Mon) 15:42:15 Id: 598d8e No. 945139

>>944366 >with only Rem being a recurring element What about a Towa? I'll laugh if they put her in again. I do really wish Falcom were trying for a more interesting setting with Xanadu instead of the modern day double swords we'll be getting. Why can't they figure out why games like Elden Ring are popular?

Anonymous 03/11/2024 (Mon) 20:04:56 Id: 9435eb No. 945216

>>945139 >What about a Towa I guess I could see her showing up. We probably won't see much about this game this year since Kai will be out first. >I do really wish Falcom were trying for a more interesting setting with Xanadu instead of the modern day double swords we'll be getting. Why can't they figure out why games like Elden Ring are popular? TX was one of the Falcom's most successful games in Japan to the point it broke Kondo's brain. He simply did not understand the simple fact of otakubait selling well on the Vita being a phenomenon that existed precisely at that time in Japan and could not be replicated elsewhere.

Anonymous 03/30/2024 (Sat) 22:44:22 Id: 7acbbb No. 953123

Gurumin Followup: Whoever thought to make (360 motion) + Attack as an input AND implemented it needs to get fucking punched in the gut. It is a fucking 3d platformer, and running around very naturally procs the 360 input needed to get absolutely fucked in the ass by a dumb spinning drill attack or spinning drill dive when you just wanted a divekick or a quick regular attack out of life. Other than that, mostly enjoyed the experience. Very charming game. Think I'll do a Heart - Containerless run and avoid the mistake of purchasing fucking stupid idiot fucking retard designed moves

Anonymous 04/11/2024 (Thu) 03:43:19 Id: 598d8e No. 957577

Did gooks really fuck up so hard that they had to remove their port of Ys X to save face?

Anonymous 04/11/2024 (Thu) 05:30:48 Id: 9ef53c No. 957586

>>957577 Sadly yes. It was awful. While I never considered CLE's PC ports of Trails great by any means, they were at least passable. But Ys 10 was a massive fuckup. Terrible performance, glitches, just about everything wrong. It might have been more of a technical mess than NISA's first draft of Ys 8, which was very bad. Hopefully they fix it before too long and maybe we'll hear from the fan translators again. It was at least partially done at one point, but the massive shitshow seems to have stalled it for now. NISA has set a date for the end of the year for their version (this actually marks the first time they've ever released a Falcom game out of release order) and they don't seem to be releasing a Japanese one early this time. The Ys side of the fanbase has always been less autistic than the Trails side, but I'm hoping the fan translators weren't discouraged from finishing.

Anonymous 04/11/2024 (Thu) 06:59:33 Id: 598d8e No. 957593

>>957586 >might have been more of a technical mess than NISA's first draft of Ys 8 What a horrifying thing to say. Very sad to hear and to consider that waiting for NiSA may be the best option on PC. I just really need to play X to see for myself if it's any good.

Anonymous 04/24/2024 (Wed) 17:53:02 Id: 8a263d No. 961836

Anonymous 04/28/2024 (Sun) 05:32:19 Id: ce590c No. 963114

Anonymous 05/01/2024 (Wed) 23:16:11 Id: 598d8e No. 964428

I did really want for Van to change his style, but not like this.

Anonymous 05/02/2024 (Thu) 00:34:51 Id: d949b8 No. 964458

>>964428 It's not much of a change, true, but at least it's something. Agnes and Risette's new designs are pure sex, though. Also looks like pantsu is still in the game, which is good.

Anonymous 05/02/2024 (Thu) 00:38:27 Id: 598d8e No. 964459

>>964458 As if there wouldn't be pantsu. I'm really looking forward to seeing Bergard again.

Anonymous 05/02/2024 (Thu) 01:04:57 Id: 887c8c No. 964474

>>964459 >As if there wouldn't be pantsu. I never doubted (if for no other reason than Falcom is lazy and they're likely gonna import at least half the outfits from previous stuff), but some people blackpilled about how they'd all be replaced by modesty shorts. >I'm really looking forward to seeing Bergard again. A shame he didn't get a new design too but I guess they figured since he was only at the end of Kuro 1 and completely sat out Kuro 2 they didn't need to.

Anonymous 05/02/2024 (Thu) 01:12:17 Id: 598d8e No. 964479

>>964474 Yeah he seems a bit out of place in his old gear. It's interesting that they've updated craft animations since I would have thought Falcom were too busy working on KEVIN!

Anonymous 05/02/2024 (Thu) 01:23:40 Id: 6d113c No. 964483

>>964479 Honestly I'm glad they updated the animations. Every game Falcom seems to actually get better at 3D. And damn I hope Kevin really does show up and his playable. I still believe that green and white blur is him. I still believe it.

Anonymous 05/22/2024 (Wed) 16:24:54 Id: b5b53d No. 970974

Damn Feri's new outfit is awakening primal urges in me I haven't felt since Fie's CS2 outfit.

Anonymous 05/22/2024 (Wed) 17:07:06 Id: 865e2e No. 970986

>>970974 >since Fie's CS2 outfit Jaeger girls just can't stop showing midriffs.

Anonymous 05/22/2024 (Wed) 17:50:41 Id: 0f3ceb No. 971026

>>964483 For a second I thought that was Nero.

Anonymous 05/22/2024 (Wed) 19:55:05 Id: 6079de No. 971066

>>971026 Kevin's been confused with Vash the Stampede before but I've never heard Nero.

Anonymous 05/23/2024 (Thu) 06:29:12 Id: 84cce5 No. 971289

Trailer dropped. This is actually an unlisted version that has no audio but it's longer than the one on their public youtube and it just has music. GUESS WHO'S BACK BITCHES (A lot of people actually)

Anonymous 05/23/2024 (Thu) 07:03:13 Id: 598d8e No. 971293

WE'RE GOING TO THE MOOOOOOON! >>971289 KEVIN!!!!! KEVIN!!!!! KEVIN!!!!! KEVIN!!!!! KEVIN!!!!! ALTINA!!!!! ALTINA!!!!! ALTINA!!!!! ALTINA!!!!! ALTINA!!!!! ALTINA!!!!! ALTINA!!!!! HOLY SHIIT NIGGERS! IT'S HAPPENING!

Anonymous 05/23/2024 (Thu) 07:06:02 Id: 9630fe No. 971295

>>971293 Lapis looking like pure sex too.

Anonymous 05/23/2024 (Thu) 07:25:23 Id: 598d8e No. 971303

>>971295 LAPIS? LAPIS! I miss Kevin and Altina so much Aidios fucking Christ. I never ever expected to have both show up in the one game like this after the criminally Kevinless state of Hajimari and as there have been merely two games since that which are bereft of Altina’s grace.

Anonymous 05/23/2024 (Thu) 15:45:24 Id: f585a9 No. 971384

>>971293 Now it really feels like a final game.

Anonymous 05/23/2024 (Thu) 18:30:28 Id: c829d3 No. 971439

>>971384 I mean this won't be the final game. Hell there might be more than one Kai game for all we know. Kondo says the series is heading towards the finale, but this isn't the last game. There's probably at least one more arc after this.

Anonymous 05/24/2024 (Fri) 15:11:58 Id: 4f6bf0 No. 971781

>>971439 I meant for these characters. Shit usually goes down, even more so with Kevin, when it's the final game of an arc.

Anonymous 05/24/2024 (Fri) 17:06:26 Id: 9e3e9c No. 971814

>>971781 It's probably the final game of the arc. I wouldn't put it past Kondo to pull a "stay tuned for Kai no Kiseki 2: The Final."

Anonymous 06/03/2024 (Mon) 01:54:48 Id: d48a27 No. 974922

Man the NPCs weren't fully done when I played Kuro. Didn't know they had a guy actually complaining about Race-swapping in it. Shame you're probably supposed to disagree with him even though his point is completely valid.

Anonymous 06/10/2024 (Mon) 14:38:14 Id: 598d8e No. 978741

The wait for Kai is impossible.

Anonymous 06/10/2024 (Mon) 18:39:49 Id: c01a87 No. 978803

>>978741 Hopefully we get more shit this week.

Anonymous 06/25/2024 (Tue) 09:51:19 Id: 0b7b50 No. 983444

The only new character shown is Crow. Though confirmed Fie will be around again after taking most of Kuro 2 off. Still hoping we get confirmation on Ries soon. Game looks cool though. Falcom seems to be improving their animations a lot.

Anonymous 06/25/2024 (Tue) 16:44:48 Id: cc4098 No. 983518

>>983444 >My face when Kevin goes to space and Overdosing Heavenly Bliss kicks in.

Anonymous 06/26/2024 (Wed) 15:21:03 Id: 66c286 No. 983821

Anonymous 06/28/2024 (Fri) 23:28:27 Id: 018406 No. 984521

Anonymous 06/29/2024 (Sat) 19:02:38 Id: c83b1f No. 984768

How are the Kuro games compared to the Rean quintology? I'm playing through Reverie right now and it's such a slog. It's just more of Cold Steel with even worse pacing and less tension. I've accepted that the golden age of Liberl and Crossbell are gone, but are the Kuro games at least something different, in terms of the style of its writing and gameplay? By "gameplay" I don't just mean combat, I mean everything that's not watching cutscenes.

Anonymous 06/29/2024 (Sat) 19:11:51 Id: 895942 No. 984772

>>984768 >By "gameplay" I don't just mean combat, I mean everything that's not watching cutscenes. I mean it's structured like your average Trails game. I'd say the tone is at least different from some of the earlier ones at least in superficial ways. You could always pirate it, plug in the fan translation and see what you think.

Anonymous 06/29/2024 (Sat) 19:27:28 Id: eb0c0d No. 984773

>>984772 I should also say the gameplay is also somewhat different as there's a pseudo action battle system in addition to turn based. It's not that a deep and is mostly just used to kill weak enemies and get an advantage in turn based battles but it does change up the flow. It's much less about turn order manipulation.

Anonymous 06/29/2024 (Sat) 20:35:49 Id: f4cf1f No. 984784

>>984768 >I'm playing through Reverie right now and it's such a slog. It's just more of Cold Steel with even worse pacing and less tension. Trails of Cold Steel honestly killed the franchise for me. Wasn't particularly invested in the franchise anyhow, having only played Trails in the Sky on PSP - which I enjoyed - but Cold Steel was such a poor showing that I never went back to finish the Liberl arc.

Anonymous 07/06/2024 (Sat) 23:05:38 Id: 19feda No. 987131

Kuro is out in the US and the localization is just about what you'd expect.

Anonymous 07/06/2024 (Sat) 23:23:13 Id: 6f2a48 No. 987134

>>987131 Imagine not having played Kuro in 2022.

Anonymous 07/13/2024 (Sat) 18:17:12 Id: c83b1f No. 989011

>>984772 Are the characters less cliche than the ones in Cold Steel/Reverie? Normally, I don't mind cliches (I like JRPGs after all) but those games seemed like they were trying to throw every stock trope they could think of at the player. To the point that it almost felt cynical.

Anonymous 07/13/2024 (Sat) 18:55:38 Id: f2451d No. 989016

>>987131 I can't understand subjecting yourself to this.

Anonymous 07/14/2024 (Sun) 01:52:57 Id: 289044 No. 989344

>>989011 Why don't you just pirate the game and try out the prologue? Or watch it on youtube I guess, though sadly you'll probably just find the shit Nisa version there.

Anonymous 07/14/2024 (Sun) 02:36:02 Id: 0c2e4a No. 989386

Not sure if anyone here would care about this but Kondo was at AX2024 last week and the fags at ANN published their interview with him earlier today: https://archive.ph/dNPKV

Anonymous 07/19/2024 (Fri) 07:20:06 Id: 80b161 No. 991449

It's now or never Nayutabros.

Anonymous 07/28/2024 (Sun) 19:03:35 Id: 5c927c No. 994969

It's weird to see a Falcom thread without any shitposting.

Anonymous 07/28/2024 (Sun) 20:11:52 Id: ffc45e No. 994988

>>994969 There might be more shitposting when Kai comes out. But honestly only a couple of people seem to post in here anyway.

Anonymous 08/02/2024 (Fri) 08:14:28 Id: 8a263d No. 996676

Anonymous 08/02/2024 (Fri) 12:27:30 Id: 4ea3dc No. 996723

>they're still making these copy-paste kiseki games Just put falcom out of it's misery already.

Anonymous 08/10/2024 (Sat) 10:40:36 Id: 33d9fa No. 999720

how's the translation/(((localization))) in falcom's games? i've been thinking about playing their older games

Anonymous 08/10/2024 (Sat) 11:05:09 Id: e18430 No. 999723

>>999720 Lern Nipponese.

Anonymous 08/10/2024 (Sat) 18:05:17 Id: f66f48 No. 999841

>>999720 I don't remember anything particularly egregious in the older ys games or Zwei. Gagharv trilogy is pretty bad, but it's like...bad fan subs bad rather than ideologue bad.

Anonymous 08/27/2024 (Tue) 20:36:09 Id: 9b560a No. 1006244

Trails in the Sky 3D remake announced for next year. All signs point to a global release. There are already screenshots with English. It seems to be the Xseed script exactly from all we've seen.

Anonymous 08/27/2024 (Tue) 21:36:58 Id: 4f7c7b No. 1006266

>>1006244 Hopefully they don't mess it up, I beat FC a month ago and it was pretty great. The art style of this game seems to be good at least.

Anonymous 08/27/2024 (Tue) 21:42:41 Id: f1d29f No. 1006271

>>1006244 Sky didn't need a fucking remake (and it already had a subpar one in Evo). For fuck's sake.

Anonymous 08/27/2024 (Tue) 22:20:17 Id: 22da63 No. 1006281

>>1006271 The gooks have been doing this thing where they shit out enhanced remakes or ports after 10-20 years for a while you know.

Anonymous 08/27/2024 (Tue) 22:26:18 Id: f0158d No. 1006283

<no engagement tweet

Anonymous 08/27/2024 (Tue) 22:33:24 Id: 950894 No. 1006285

>>1006280 Twitter users are such fucking parasites. >>1006283 Trails isn't exactly a popular franchise.

Anonymous 08/27/2024 (Tue) 23:46:29 Id: b1ebf0 No. 1006321

>>1006285 Don't give any (You)s to Willy.

Anonymous 08/28/2024 (Wed) 02:33:01 Id: a6eb8e No. 1006399

>>1006280 You're forgetting the real reason it will be cancelled.

Anonymous 08/28/2024 (Wed) 03:19:18 Id: 3ded61 No. 1006418

>>953123 Gurumin Followup: The Second. I've accidentally overrwritten my previous save with New Game Plus data. Now I have to play through the game again (on hard because I like higher difficulties) to get to the Extra Dungeon Boss again T-T

Anonymous 08/28/2024 (Wed) 03:30:07 Id: 3dea84 No. 1006421

>>1006399 I'm basically going to withhold all judgement until I see what all this game will do. If it's literally just the first game 1:1 but 3D there might not be any cuts at all. If they start getting fucky with it, then we'll know. Also Falcom released a slightly longer trailer. All footage seems to just be from the Rolent prologue though.

Anonymous 08/28/2024 (Wed) 03:36:14 Id: 0f5870 No. 1006422

>>1006244 On one hand, yay, but on the other I'm pretty tired of remakes. Potato sprites are perfect the way they are.

Anonymous 08/28/2024 (Wed) 04:08:14 Id: 950894 No. 1006429

>>1006421 Remakes are generally the sign of a company that lack ambition to do greater things (or are trying to make a quick buck). Also it looks like a dated, desaturated PS3 game and the music in the trailer is a genericized arrangement. Plus the loss of isometric perspective really changes the feel of the game.

Anonymous 08/28/2024 (Wed) 04:47:49 Id: 1f0c6e No. 1006441

>>1006429 >Remakes are generally the sign of a company that lack ambition to do greater things I'd agree if Falcom weren't also making new games too. I don't even know which team is working on this because they have two other games being worked on right now, the last Calvard game and a new Xanadu game. >Also it looks like a dated, desaturated PS3 game Gonna disagree here. I think it's their best looking 3D game to date because they finally got the memo cell shading looks better than what they were doing before.

Anonymous 08/28/2024 (Wed) 05:16:35 Id: f1d29f No. 1006449

>>1006441 Look at the low color variety of the world and lack of detail in the environment compared to the OG they're showing in the trailer. It's only 1 notch above Neptunia imo. I liked the way the environments looked in the OG. The only good part is the character models, and even then they don't even let us see Estelle's ass when she's running. Also the new building, stone and object textures look like a fucking mobile game's (a trend I've been seeing in certain other games as of late, like FE Engage)

Anonymous 08/28/2024 (Wed) 05:26:06 Id: 0f5870 No. 1006453

>>1006421 >If it's literally just the first game 1:1 but 3D I doubt they would do away with the QoL features from the modern titles, like seeing where all sidequests are, and having a clear indicator of when time is going to pass, so you don't miss any optional sidequests or interactions.

Anonymous 08/28/2024 (Wed) 07:44:56 Id: 16db20 No. 1006496

>>1006453 >I doubt they would do away with the QoL features from the modern titles, like seeing where all sidequests are, and having a clear indicator of when time is going to pass, so you don't miss any optional sidequests or interactions. Oh that for sure. Also you can already see you get into fights by hitting enemies on the overworld, which is already quite different than the caterpillar bump system in the first games. I'm not really considering marking Carnelia volumes or the location of the non-board side-quests as that drastic of a change. If all this was going to be was an HD asset improvement of the originals and then port to consoles they probably STILL would have overhauled the UI to do stuff like that. I was mostly talking about the actual structure of the game's plot or dialogue. It does not look like it's going to be some FF7R thing where it's way different. In fact, so far the dialogue has been 1:1. Obviously we haven't seen much yet, but still from what they've shown that's the case. >>1006449 >Look at the low color variety of the world and lack of detail in the environment compared to the OG they're showing in the trailer. I'm not asking if you think it's better than the spite games. I'm asking if you think it's better than Kuro or CS.

Anonymous 09/26/2024 (Thu) 04:27:11 Id: 79ff45 No. 1018906

Kondo did it again. The bamboozle.

Anonymous 09/26/2024 (Thu) 12:16:20 Id: 52e5df No. 1019001

>>1018906 >To be continued I wonder if that means a DLC update or a whole new game. That ending is pretty interesting though. I wonder how the full game is.

Anonymous 09/26/2024 (Thu) 21:16:05 Id: f4e485 No. 1019214

>>1019001 We are unsure for now, but it seems like a full game to me. There's still quite a bit to resolve. Ultimately I liked what I saw of Kai way more than Kuro 2 which had a lot of problems. The game has an admittedly really slow start but it picks up as it goes and I think the finale is legitimately quite good. I was kind of half expecting a cliff-hangar because it's just a Kondo thing to do so I don't think I was as caught off guard as some were.

Anonymous 09/27/2024 (Fri) 20:23:58 Id: 355557 No. 1019690