Comments on: Ar Tonelico 2 sings a song in December

By: D-5

D-5 — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:48:35 +0000

@RagolSlayer: Except for Abyss, of course (Which is a shame. I really liked Abyss a lot).

Back to the topic at hand, are the Ar Tonelico games fun to play?

By: seiya19

seiya19 — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:58:09 +0000

@RagolSlayer

Front Mission 5 too ? I knew about Tales of Innocence but not about this one… IÂ´ll look for it. Although the problem with a fan translation for PS2 would be the subtitles for the FMVs…

By: RagolSlayer

RagolSlayer — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:58:33 +0000

Well at least both FM5 and Tales of Innocence have fan translations being worked on. ^_^.

By: seiya19

seiya19 — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 12:16:44 +0000

@RagolSlayer

Ok, thanks. And yes, I know that thereÂ´s practically zero chance that we see Front Mission 5 localized, as well as the PS2 Tales games. I just posted wishful thinking… Right now, I even doubt that weÂ´ll see Front Mission 2089 localized…and I donÂ´t have any hopes for Tales of Innocence either.

By: RagolSlayer

RagolSlayer — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:44:26 +0000

@seiya19 – Yes, the sexual innuendos in Ar tonelico were present in the Japanese version.

And sadly, I doubt that Front Mission 5 will ever get an English localization. Front Mission 4 bombed in sales (even though a good deal of it was Square-Enix’s fault) and Front Mission the 1st (the DS one) only did alright.

Namco-Bandai seems only interested in porting the Tales games it knows will succeed in the US, like Symphonia.

By: seiya19

seiya19 — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 01:08:01 +0000

Great news. I have yet to play the 1st one, but IÂ´m glad that the 2nd one will be available if I like it. I just hope that this time, the game includes japanese voices in the cutscenes…

IÂ´m glad that the PS2 is still getting new games…I hope the Wii stays this long as well.

Now, if someone could convince Square-Enix and Bandai-Namco to localize some of its Japan-only games…(Front Mission 5 and Tales games come to mind) that would be swell…

By the way, does anyone know if the “sexual innuendo” of the 1st game was already on the japanese version ? or was it added in the localization ? I hope it wasnÂ´t the latter, because I want the translations to be as faithful to the original as possible…

By: Hello Hello

Hello Hello — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:57:46 +0000

I was really looking forward to this but now I’m only kind of looking forward to it. After that screw job that NISA did to us with the English voice acting in Mana Khemia, I’m afraid they’re going to do the same thing to us again with Ar tonelico II.

By: Volcynika

Volcynika — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:09:36 +0000

Oo, thanks! My friend is kinda wondering about the names of the Reyvateils in this one because one of them is kinda weird, I think it’s Luca and Cloche (Cloche is a weird name), but that’s just in the artwork for their announcement stuff. Looks like Persona 4 and this are getting my money in December.

By: Spencer

Spencer — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 04:37:40 +0000

@Volcynika – Here’s a bunch of trailers from Ar Tonelico II from Gust.

@Penguin – It’s PS2 just like Japan.

By: jeffx

jeffx — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 03:20:47 +0000

Excellent, played the first to death.