Comments on: Record of Agarest War Delayed, Battle Fantasia Still On For 2009

By: matty

matty — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:51:52 +0000

The reason they would add dub is to reach a broader audience, which if the anime audience is any indication, does grab a lot of people.
If that's their reason (and the rumor is true), then all I'm for it. Whatever brings more of these games out here to the west.
Who knows, maybe it could pave way for games likes Time Leap and such to be brought over too.

By: matty

matty — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:51:52 +0000

By: Artavasdus

Artavasdus — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:17:18 +0000

You misread my post, I said "we are talking about a jrpgdating sim hybrid with lots of semi-eroge innuendo by a low budget, poorly known company", not "by an eroge company", and the semi-eroge bit was clearly referred to the game, or to some of its CG's innuendo to be precise :P

Of course Compile Heart is in no way an "eroge company", nor is Agarest "eroge", even if some of its cgs are allusive.

By: wildarms

wildarms — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:24:26 +0000

since when that company is semi-eroge?… this is the first game they release like this.
Anyway i cant use euros and cant bring the game to america so im screwed

By: Artavasdus

Artavasdus — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:39:01 +0000

I feel the same, judging from the forums many USA fans have already imported Ghostlight's limited edition, while we europeans obviously choose the Pal release.

I am curious about Aksys' claims on their version being the best, Ghostlight's localization is very good and without any kind of censorship, and their limited edition is much more palatable for jrpg fans, who often tend to be collectors, than a dd release (the rumor about an USA physical release is still just that, a rumor).

The only thing they could add as far as I imagine is english dub, but I don't think many players in a niche and Japan-loving fandom like this (we are talking about a jrpgdating sim hybrid with lots of semi-eroge innuendo by a low budget, poorly known company, after all) would find that reason enough to wait for months. This kind of audience is known to clamor for the japanese dub more than the english one.

By: Marcus70

Marcus70 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:41:51 +0000

I'm really disappointed with Aksys. If they wanted fans to buy their (supposedly better) version, maybe they should have made an announcement before Ghostlight's version shipped?

I already imported Ghostlight's version for $45 from the UK. Reading the forms, most fans of this niche title wanted a disc version and already bought Ghostlight's version. Aksys really dropped the ball for this game and probably lost a few sales in the process.

By: wildarms

wildarms — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:28:07 +0000

Omg i didnt knew u checked there!! HEY GUYS IM THE WILDARMS OF THAT FORUM! IM FAMOUS!!!… and you can already see all my sadness after see that this game is being delayed… *sigh*

By: matty

matty — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:32:10 +0000

I had no idea there was an Xbox 360 version, but after looking up wiki, yeah, there are also new items for that port as downloadable content as well.
That would be great, but we'll have to wait and see.

By: manga

manga — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:12:32 +0000

Hm, I just hope that they don´t decide to give away more goodies than the PAL CE has. That would be really bad since I usually buy the NTSC games but this one time I didn´t since I want my games boxed. And with the CE being as cheap as it was it was no blunder to do so.

So far I really like the game. Need more images though instead of just battles and text :p Not that I don´t enjoy the text and battles. They are very satisfying when you win.

Will look forward to what you uncover about this all.

By: Hiryuu

Hiryuu — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:20:17 +0000

Perhaps they really DID run into that total game size issue. I was wondering why I wasn't hearing any thoughts on the matter in the last month or so leading up to this. I know this is a restate, but the game itself is at least 20GB. Putting that on PSN would be one heck of a pain to deal with unless it was split up for the FAT32 file system.

It makes total sense to go through with it in disc format and not much of any sense to make it digitally distributed on PSN...but perhaps since they're on that train already and considering the way the PSP Go operates, maybe they're doing both? I could see that. Given that there should be an official announcement and the fact that they're stressing that 'importing won't be better' there's probably huge credence to a disc version coming. I have the feeling Aksys isn't just blowing smoke up our butt. They've got a pretty good track record thus far and they seem to be as good with the localization and customer satisfaction as, say, ATLUS is for a number of reasons.

Well, we'll have to see. Probably won't be too long before an announcement of some sort.

By: Mr_Qoo

Mr_Qoo — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:43:36 +0000

This still gives me a chance to crack open the LE import I got. I feel bad that it's still had no playtime and it's almost out in the US! That would be neat if they _did_ make a physical retail copy of this.

By: BK0000

BK0000 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:55:46 +0000

It's going to be different? After doing some research, there was a 360 version released that was apparently slightly better than the PS3 version. It had some extra features. Maybe they're going to add the bonuses from the 360 version to it. Or maybe they've decided to do both the 360 and PS3 versions.

By: Nyanyaan

Nyanyaan — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:48:05 +0000

It's JP lang/ENG text only far as I can uncover. It also only will work in 720 or stepped down from 1080 for the resolution — just yet another title unplayable with the cables shipped with the system.

By: nyobzoo

nyobzoo — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:21:17 +0000

it's a shame, I was going to get it too. But if it's for a retail version then I'm up for that also

By: matty

matty — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:17:19 +0000

I can't play the game yet, but from what little cutscenes I've seen in BlazBlue, the dub was pretty solid. Having the same treatment for Agarest War would be pretty cool.
Does your EU copy have multiple translations into other languages? I remember Aksys mentioning having multiple languages about a couple months before BlazBlue came out, so I wonder if they're focusing on that as well for Agarest War. Not sure why, though…