Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana coming to Switch this summer

>gematsu.com/2018/01/ys-viii-lacrimosa-dana-coming-switch-summer
Thank god NISA

Switch = New Vita

I mean there's no Sony handheld of relevance anymore and even if Sony came up with one it's kind of doomed to failure.

How about you fix the fucking TL, like you said you WOULD, before you go porting it to other systems you rat bastards? I bet they won't even finish it until after the Switch release.

Which isn't even bad. Nintendo just knows how to sell their handhelds.

yay for years old vita ports that's already in the bargain bin but will be overpriced on the switch?

Isn't this game with the trainwreck translation?

The Switch is what the Vita was meant to be. Sony just dropped it big time when making and advertising it.

They're working on a new translation, it should be ready for the launch of the PC version.

it will have the new translation in this version.
new translation will be ready for PC on January 30th, so the switch version will 100% have it

And it's still going to be shit because they're rushing it out, fuck off NISAdrones.

>Yet another years old Vita port sold at full price
What's even the point?

But it's already on Vita, PS4 and releases this month on PC

Switch = Successful Vita

Can someone give me a quick rundown on the game? Is it worth it?

>NISAdrones
>It's probably the second NISA game I will buy in my life
Not my fault if Xseed isn't behind this time

It's an action RPG where you're stuck on an island and have to build up a town of your own. Great action combat and no XB2 moe nonsense.

>Rushing it out
>Took forever just to work on nothing but the translation
hmmm

Guess they'll eventually get the trail series too.

The series is good.
Just start playing it

Trails is on basically everything so it wouldn't be a surprise considering the Switch is getting loads of cheap ports of games everyone else already played, everyone's scrambling to make people double or triple dip thanks to the Switch.

...

Patch goes live January 30th

NIS couldn't TL a fucking Ys game. There's no way they have the ability to do something as wordy as trails.

This.
The thing is, I'm not so broke up about NIS getting their hands on Ys. The story is an afterthought.
NIS getting their hands on TiTS however sounds fucking disgusting.

Judging from the pisspoor way they're handling Ys VIII, I doubt Falcom is gonna trust them for anything again.

Meanwhile, XSeed's basically one X T R A T H I C C weeaboo and has hammered out great localizations of some of the wordiest series ever in a few years

But the game its already on the Vita

Can someone give me the quick gestalt on what went wrong with the original translation?

XSEED can be just as bad, they just keep their meme localizer off of the Trails team and actually have somebody who genuinely loves the series in charge

>tfw the meme localizer is in charge of the Zwei localization and replaced half of the jokes with internet memes under the justification "b-but the humor is japanese memes anyways"

I hope this doesn't mean we ahve to wait this long for a patch too, like a simultaneous release.

remove meme localizers. i hate them all

I don't remember XSeed ever doing BIG HOLE

Wait, is this also fucking NISA? FUCK. How are these retards still getting work? They're going to be ruining that SNK game too.

Played the PS4 version when it came out and apart from the shitty translation it's probably my favourite Ys so far. Might even buy the PC version even though I absolutely loathe NISA.

The patch and the game are out on January 30th on PC, PS4.

Not really, Nintendo just has inertia behind them. Their handhelds are terribly underpowered junk time after time.

vita still has more games though

It's an excellent action RPG and probably my favorite Ys game (which is saying something since there's 30 years of the things).

On PS4 this thing runs at 60fps smooth as fuck while having clean IQ because of the high quality anti-aliasing they're using.

XSeed can't self-publish in Europe + NISA seems to be outbidding them left and right for Falcom projects.

inb4 Ys continues its terrible Nintendo ports streak

and I don't remember NISA lying through their teeth for years about Falcom not giving them the rights to dual audio.

you do realize the localizers job is to localize, not direct translate. if localizer only did direct translations, you would be getting jokes that make 0 sense in english because they're only based on japanese word puns.

One again Sup Forums let me warn you. Do not get your hopes up for anything nisa has touched. I have been right about their incompetence time and time again.

DANA'S PALEOZOIC BIG HOLE

There's no good reason for believing this is a lie. Even Falcom's own mentioning of the matter didn't contradict it.
Nothing XSeed has localized from Falcom has been a new release. Its all older Falcom works. Its entirely conceivable to have had different voice acting contracts in the past versus now that prevent licensing.

We have undeniable evidence that Ys VIII's localization was a disaster with proof for it. There's no undeniable proof that XSeed lied about that.

The translation is getting an update at the end of the month.

Personally, memes in translations has never bothered me that much. The only time I had to do a double take was in PxZ2 when Natsu was talking like a 21st century valley girl and even that was so stupid/absurd that it actually became awesome.

To be fair though, the English jokes in Zwei's localization are pretty terrible and they said themselves that they weren't giving it an extremely faithful translation

Nonsense.

Can't wait for them to delay it a day before it releases.

Not him, but which one is best to start with on the PSP? As far as I can tell 1, 2, 3 and 6 have remakes on the system and 7 was made for it.

>nippon1.jp/news/new_title_interview/
>more Falcom games by NISA coming
Falcomfags will kill themselves now

Only because it doesn't have the same processing power as other consoles doesn't mean their games are inferior to those said other consoles.

Depends on what you're looking for. Honestly, just jump immediately into Ys VIII.

fair enough, but still I'd rather take meme translations than a japanese only joke that makes 0 sense when translated and then having to explain the joke to the viewer makes it not a joke anymore.

Oath in Felghana.

I want to explore her big hole

And that's good when it's done well and in witty ways. It becomes a problem when it's done lazily, or when the localizers go overboard and replace shit the game's audience could realistically understand.
When people complain about localization they're not complaining about things being localized at all, they're complaining about bad attempts at it.

Oh no, the games are just the unfortunate victims of Nintendo's severe low balling of their hardware. Unfortunately, it's not worth competing in the handheld market anymore now that mobile phones reign supreme.

Deleta pls

I thought Falcom hated Nintendo and this was NEVER EVER?

Falcom have no decision. Its Nisa. They have all the rights to do whatever they want with Ys8 in the west.

3 it is. Might pick up 8 at the end of the month if I end up like it. Thanks, guys.

*if I end up liking it

I already played this on my Vita user. Nice Catherine btw

You did make a good point, though. I think there is a fine line when a line needs to be directly translated and when it needs to be substituted for something else that would make more sense to a western audience.

Just keep in mind that 8 is very different from oath.

Didn't realize these were so short, I could probably beat half of them until 8 comes out.

Switch will be the Vita but actually good.

will i like this game if I liked xb2

>How are these retards still getting work?
Because they promised a pc version since xseed couldn't. Then they fucked the basic goddamn translation and pc version was heavily delayed anyway

Maybe. or maybe not.

Ys is quite a bit different than your average JRPG so it's hard to say but overall I do think you'd like it.

No way of knowing. This is a different style of RPG, its focus is action not story.

Huh, no kidding. I haven't played an Ys since III on the SNES so I'm woefully out of the loop.

VIII is a good jumping on point, honestly.

If they ported the old ones that'd be great. I just started the first one and I think it would be much comfier to play handheld

I wonder if Falcom will take anything from how it performs, though. So far, they've been saying that there's no audience for their games on the Switch.

That's just bullshit. What they really meant
>we're busy as fuck and cba to do another port when our 50 man team is busy with several games

They won't be dumb and ignore the switch sales in Japan, once the trail series has settled they'll start slapping on shit for the switch.

I can TASTE the salt coming from this post

I guarantee Falcom gives two shits. Beyond whatever platform they develop a game on, they basically license their games out. They have never been involved in a port of their games.

m8 the switch is selling like hotcakes in japan.
seen this weeks mediacreate? 18 nintendo games in the top 20 sold.
switch constantly topping in sales by a good 100 k sales on the other consoles.

falcom was chatting shit, they're not gonna ignore the switch.

Yeah you can on Vita with its superior D-Pad.

But seriously, that depends on X-Seed. They have the rights for the old games and they haven't even put them on PS4 yet or the 3rd on PSvita PSN. They're even more broke than Falcom.

Yes they will. They have moved beyond shitty portable hardware.

They are not going to downgrade their games after CS3 and they sure as shit are not going to ever go multiplatform.

Simply put, they don’t have the resources or the desire to deal with the Switch.

You're retarded.

>now that mobile phones reign supreme

Is the game good? I remember it getting a lot of shit when it first came out, but now the general opinion seems to have flipped.

This game looks like garbage compared to Oath in Felghana. Did the Ys series turn bad or what?

NISA is handling the port?

Oh boy, enjoy your direct Vita port.

Yes. It has fucking clash of clans style base building. Nufalcom is a mistake.

It's shit yes. Ever since the series went to sony handhelds it pandered to the casual kiseki audience.

Never played a Ys game were do I start? I always thought that VIII meant I was 8 titles behind.

Its Celceta 2.0 now with jumping. If you liked that then you'll like 8, if not then stay away from it since its the same thing but a hell of a lot longer.

I would suggest starting with the ports of 1 and 2 or with Ark.

I made the mistake of starting with Oath and now I don't even have the will to finish Ark.

Nobody bought a vita

No, this is the best timeline.

Why? Ark is extremely similar.

Oath is the best game in the series, so don't start with that unless you want to feel continued disappointment in the other games.

Not in the immediate future. Down the line? Most likely. It's gonna be the cheaper console to develop for once vita and 3ds phase out.

Ys are actually good games so you won't like it with your shit taste

>Vitafags get the game and Switchfags dont
>s-salty

It's too grindy. There's been way too many times where I couldn't damage an enemy because my level was too low.

I didn't encounter that in Oath or Origin and I played those 2 games before playing Ark.