Comments on: Visual Novel Adventures We’d Love to See Localized – Chapter 2

By: Ishaan

Ishaan — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:04:30 +0000

I believe the network comprising of Jlist/Peach Princess/G-Collections do sell Hirameki titles online, yes.

By: Ishaan

Ishaan — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:04:30 +0000

I believe the network comprising of Jlist/Peach Princess/G-Collections do sell Hirameki titles online, yes.

By: cat dandruff

cat dandruff — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:01:30 +0000

Is it known if when Peach Princess grabbed up whatever remained of Hirameki was it only left-over stock or did any product rights come along?

By: Ishaan

Ishaan — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:57:15 +0000

Hehe, I used VNDS for Narcissu, too. Unfortunately, I happened to read it while I was at a hospital myself. It was so depressing…

By: Nekobo

Nekobo — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:36:02 +0000

Oh yeah, if you have the means to use homebrew software on your DS, there's a DS visual novel reader.

http://digital-haze.net/vnds.php

By: Nekobo

Nekobo — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:32:25 +0000

As result of watching Higurashi earlier this month and reading Ishaan's article last week, I started looking into visual novels. I've read through two freeware visual novels this past week, Narcissu and True Remembrance. Narcissu was good, but I absolutely enjoyed True Remembrance. The translations are top notch, too.

http://trueremembrance.insani.org/story.html
http://narcissu.insani.org/

Oh yeah, I also tried out OMGWTFOTL. It was uh...er...let's just say the title says it all.
http://www.insani.org/omgwtfotl.html

By: denpanosekai

denpanosekai — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:59:21 +0000

I don't want to get into a whole other debate, but Japanese is not hard. It takes a lot of dedication and a positive mentality, sure, but it's doable. Yes it's at least 3 years before you can sit down and play a game (and even then understand maybe 50% of it!), but what did you expect?

Anyway, just keep working and don't give up. Be a warrior!!!

By: denpanosekai

denpanosekai — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:56:10 +0000

Actually those might be a little more up Aksys' alley, considering they did Theresia and Jake Hunter... yes I know the translation wasn't up to par but they're more likely to give these a shot than Atlus*

* WHO NEED TO GET CRACKING ON BRANDISH PSP

By: Mazen

Mazen — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:42:27 +0000

These articles are amazing and informative but they hurt :( , I tried to learn Japanese but its too hard needs at least 3 years of hard work and am too lazy.

By: Nyanyaan

Nyanyaan — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:35:15 +0000

Is it known if when Peach Princess grabbed up whatever remained of Hirameki was it only left-over stock or did any product rights come along?

Now it has a PS2 option but Ever17 even in a rerelease of the PC version DESERVES more attention. The other two stories of KID's trillogy also have gotten /are getting a PS2 versions, too. Hirameki had several other things announced which never got out, while most of these were on that stupid DVD player format, it would be nice to know what US rights still remain.

And while yes, they do have adult content, Peach Princess has done nice translations of many of their projects. Titles like Private Nurse and Crescendo are ones with quite a bit of drama and solid story and character development in between the h-scenes.

By: Trickless

Trickless — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:08:53 +0000

I would think the main selling point of these 2 games in Japan would be the author and the Kindaichi character himself. Like you say, there are already Japanese movies and TV dramas based on the character so it’s easily marketable over there.

Whereas in America the names ‘Yokomizo Seishi’ and ‘Kindaichi’ aren’t instantly recognisable. Not only that, but I’m guessing someone (probably in Japan) has the ownership rights to the Kindaichi name. So localising the game would probably bring more complications than it should.

I hadn’t heard of ‘Yokomizo Seishi’ until now, and I honestly thought these games were some sort of spin-off to the ‘Kindaichi Shounen’ anime series! So I’m glad I read up the background info.

By: NickyD

NickyD — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:50:10 +0000

Those sound really fun. I love me them detective stories, although I found the regular ol' books a bit dry in most instances. I guess ME finding the clues and putting the pieces together instead of just reading what the character/author decided to find at that point is more… entertaining. Again, great look into the world of gaming we rarely see.

But for some reason… after reading those synopses, I want to go play the Fatal Frame games again. Ahh, creepy haunted villages with murderous pasts…

By: cj_iwakura

cj_iwakura — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:25:04 +0000

You could always post about these at the Atlus Message Board suggestions section. Atlus do pay attention to the suggestions, and once in a while, a game someone suggested does make it over(whether or not there was a connection, who knows).