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It's the first day of Golden Week in Japan, and while that may not mean much to those in English-speaking territories, it's one of the nation's biggest holidays. As Valve never miss an excuse for a sale, that means that there's some great deals on games from Japanese developers and publishers. If visual novels, fighting games or JRPGs are your thing, there's some good stuff…
Action-JRPG Ys: Memories of Celceta remembers it’s out on PC today
Nihon Falcom's long-running Ys series are pure gaming comfort food. Simple but solid fantasy adventure stories, fast, arcadey action, complex boss fights and great soundtracks. Yet another finds its way to PC today. Ys: Memories of Celceta was originally a PS Vita game (and one I've owned for many years), but regular localisation/porting outfit XSeed have done a lot of work polished it up for…
NIS America might have stumbled a bit with the PC launch of Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana, but previous publisher XSeed have stepped up to bat again for Nihon Falcom's long-running series of consistently entertaining action RPGs. Ys: Memories of Celceta was originally released for the PlayStation Vita, but their new version allows you to play it at full HD resolutions, at framerates as high…
After six months of delays to deal with technical issues, the PC version of Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana finally launched yesterday, albeit to less-than-great public reaction. Not because it's a bad game - far from it - but because the PC version is plagued with bugs just not present in any other version of the game. Nonexistent Vsync, flickering lights, wonky controls and more have…
They say good things come to those who wait, but perhaps the release of Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana could have gone back into the oven a little bit longer. The six-month-delayed PC port (first to completely re-translate the game, then to deal with a rising tide of technical issues) has finally made it to launch, though after looking at the first wave of public…
Nihon Falcom's RPG series Ys is continuing its meandering journey over to PC piece-by-piece, with 2012's Ys: Memories Of Celceta due to officially find its way from PlayStation Vita to PC in summer 2018. I've no experience with the series myself but people speak fondly of it and seem glad when more games come to PC so good, here's some good news for such people.…
For a second time, Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana has been delayed mere days before it was due to launch on PC. Nihon Falcom's JRPG had been due in September 2017 but was delayed one day before launch, and this new delay comes eleven days before the latest launch date. This time, publishers NIS America are being quite open: it's delayed again because the game…
The PC version of Nihon Falcom's RPG Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana will arrive on January 30th, publishers NIS America have announced. This is almost five months after the console version but, unlike that, the PC release won't launch with shoddy localisation. The original English script was so wonky that NISA have been reworking it to fix typos, errors, and clunky translation, and re-recording dialogue…
Falcom action-RPG Zwei: The Arges Adventure returns to PC shores in English
While Ys 8's PC release might have slipped back to next year, we've plenty of Nihon Falcom games to chew on for now anyway. And yet another is coming our way soon too, Zwei: The Arges Adventure. Due to be the Japanese RPG studio's 15th release on Steam, Zwei: The Arges Adventure was originally a PC game, although like many of Falcom's past games it…
Ys VIII’s PC release slips to 2018 to allow for total re-translation
It would seem that 'measure twice, cut once' isn't just good woodworking advice. NIS America's localisation of Ys VIII: Lacrimosa Of Dana, the latest in Nihon Falcom's long-running action-RPG series, has now been judged so wobbly by the publisher that they're delaying the PC release to allow for a complete 'from the ground up' rework of the English script and voice track. There is at…
There is one unexpected benefit to the PC version of Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana [official site] being delayed: ours won't launch with wonky localisation. Western publishers NIS America have apologised for the poor state of the game's localisation when it hit consoles in September -- when it was originally due to hit PC too -- with oddities, errors, and assorted wonk. Fresh folks are…
If you had been looking forward to playing Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana [official site] today, I'm sorry to tell you that it has been delayed. Nihon Falcom's JRPG was supposed to launch on PC today alongside its console counterparts, but publishers NIS America announced only last night that the PC version will be late. They don't offer an update release date and say the…
Nihon Falcom’s flashy slashy JRPG Ys Seven [official site] is now out on PC, eight years after it first arrived on the PSP. It's largely the same game as the handheld version upscaled for bigger screens, just with a refreshed translation from the Japanese original. It should run at 60fps at a variety of resolutions and it supports both keyboard-and-mouse and controllers. All good stuff. You've got control of a three-man party…
Nihon Falcom's JRPG Ys Seven [official site] will hit PC on 30th August, publishers XSeed Games have announced. The port of the 2009 PlayStation Portable original is a "full upscaled HD" version and will feature lots of resolution options, new achievements and a refreshed translation from the Japanese version, XSeed say.
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel [official site] has arrived on PC. It's an updated version of the PS3/PS Vita JRPG from 2013, improving the visuals and adding 5,000 new lines of voiced dialogue. A trio of Nihon Falcom's Legend of Heroes games are already out on PC (the Trails in the Sky trilogy), and this one takes place in the same universe. But if you haven't…
Nihon Falcom's 2009 game Ys Seven [official site] is making the jump from the PSP handheld to PC. We've been slowly catching up on the series on PC, and the next one will actually launch on the same day as its western console counterparts, so it's nice to fill in the gaps. I've not played any Ys but do hear good things from folks who…
JRPG The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd is (finally) out
JRPG The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd [official site] finally released worldwide on PC this week, almost 10 years after it came out in Japan. It's the third and final instalment in the Trails in the Sky sub-series and stars Father Kevin Graham, the priest with two first names. Expect third-person combat and a good chunk of dialogue.
Nihon Falcom's The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel [official site] will come to PC this summer, publishers Xseed Games have announced, four years after its console debut. Trails of Cold Steel kicks off a new sub-series in Falcom's sprawling Legend of Heroes series but no, sadly its Cold Steel is nothing to do with the sword-swinging YouTube stars. Xseed also confirmed that the…
From the next in RPG series Ys to a strategy game where players give gal pals magical tattoos, the western arm of Japanese publisher NIS have announced western PC releases for more games in their curiously eclectic lineup and launch dates for others already known. It's a NIS news blowout. Non-stop NIS news clues. Read on for deets on Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana [official…
Xanadu Next [official site], an action-RPG by The Legend of Heroes and Ys series developers Nihon Falcom, has finally received an official English version - 11 years after its original release. Well, it's finally received an official English version that isn't on the ha-ha-hilarious Nokia N-Gage game-o-phone. The noughties, eh? What a curious half-way for pocket phone technology. Point is: if you fancy more Falcom-y…
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