Any Brigandine (PSX) fans?

[Rovole]

Its a hazard that comes with using Chinese characters. Koreans got tired of the whole mess and ended up inventing their own writing system. The Japanese tried their best to keep it up to date by adding even more characters. Even the Chinese themselves tried to update it with simplified characters. I suppose in this case, its because the concept of "knighthood" is foreign to far eastern cultures, the nearest analogy would be the samurai, what with being the Japanese equivalent of a feudal warrior with a code of honor.

[HwitVlf]

Rovole where is your avatar from? I don't recognize it. ‎  I learned the Korean alphabet was phonetic recently. Their writing looks so complicated that I had ignorantly assumed it used quasi-pictographs like Chinese. I also wonder if the Japanese Kana will completely replace their Kanji some day.

I came to a funny place in Caerleon's new game story. In Atlus' Legend of Forsena translation, Cai says he expected Zemeckis to cause trouble in Alemekia because Zemeckis had subdued all of Almekia's enemies and "the hunting dog with nothing left to hunt will hunt its master."

But what the actual Japanese says is "The hunting dog which hunts game to extinction is finally cooked by its master." For those who don't know, Zemeckis, an Almekian general, was falsely accused of treason by Almekian nobles who feared how powerful he had become. ‎  Quite a different sentiment from LoF version which paints Zemeckis as a dog who bites the hand that feeds it. I guess Atlus thought eating a dog was too foreign a concept to western audience. ‎ 

[Rovole]

Word Bearers Legion Chaos Sorcerer. A mouthful, I know, but that's the full title. Its from Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 2: Retribution with the Word Bearers Legion DLC, which is just a reskin of the Chaos Space Marines army already in-game. I play RTS games, not only TBS, even though I'm nowhere near competitive material. I also play FPSes, RPGs, 3d platformers and anything in between. Really bad at those old-school Nintendo hard 2d platformers though, and total junk at fighting games.

As for the localized metaphor, I suppose the end result is the same even if the reasons why are different. Originally I doubted that Zemeckis was actually ever indicted of treason, given that the messenger immediately asks him to retaliate with a real rebellion after delivering the news. Zemeckis then discards any reservations quite quickly, so he may have just been looking for an excuse to destroy the peace and fulfill his harbored ambitions. If you play Norgard in LoF, they mention the name he chooses for his usurper state, Esgares, an old empire that once ruled over the unified lands in power and prosperity, something like a Roman analogue. The color of Esgares, purple, also brings to mind Imperial Roman imagery(as opposed to republican Rome's red.)

Anyways, Zemeckis is a career soldier, making him ill-suited to periods of peace(and coincidentally, peace is ill-suited to the plot.) One wonders if Zemeckis doesn't start a war just to avoid a peaceful death, and makes me curious as to how he would deal with the ensuing peace if he was actually allowed to win and unite the continent, another reason why I am eagerly awaiting your most magnanimous translation.

And you aren't missing out on much, dog meat is stringy and dry.

[HwitVlf]

Ewww stringy dog meat! I'm a vegetarian so dog meat is doubly gross ;p

Just for the fun of it, here's a couple links to some re-voiced movies in progress. Starring Chris Dattoli as Zemeckis, Cary Reese as Bulnoil, and Eric Valdes as Dryst.

Iscalio: End of Zemeckis

Zemeckis' vow

[HwitVlf]

Finished with the new-game opening stories. On to the tutorial.

[Chazchu]

Keep up the good work, I hope you finish everything except the voice-overs soon :)

[HwitVlf]

Thanks Chazchu ‎ 

Finished translating and inserting the tutorial text. There's actually some interesting stuff in there. The tutorial section has it's own list of creature names, separate from the main game. So I still have to turn those into English. Then onto polishing and movies.

[Username]

Great work so far. I'm still really impressed by it.

[Tony0075]

Can't wait can't wait can't wait Looks great So ready to play this !!!

[Chazchu]

Amazing! I can't wait for the patch to come out finally. I am sad that you can't add the LoF music, but hey that's life :D

PS: I can beta test it for you if you want later on on my PSP and PC.