09.27.06
Posted in Japanese, News, UK at 2:26 pm by yuka
Other half was looking at this MetalGearSolid4 video, and I happened to peep over his shoulder. I attribute this perfectionist streak in me to my race, but um, couldn’t they have translated it a bit better? About half way through, the words: “No Time for Heroes” flashes by. Trust me, in Japanese, it says “No time left for the Hero”; “No Place in Time” (as confusing as that sounds) should say “No Time to Be”; “No Time to Die” should become “No Reason to Die”; “No War for Snake” to “It’s not Snake’s War” (I know my way would erode the poetic license of the previous translators, but seriously, doesn’t make sense otherwise!); “Some Legends Must Die” to “Legends, sooner or later, ends”. I honestly think my way makes things a bit clearer for non-Japanese speaking folks.
A small-ish patch for WoW today, except I can’t find the patch notes on their site yet. It’s mainly bug fixes to do with enchants, certain armour sets, and World PVP. I closed the damn window before pasting – sorry.
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09.16.06
Posted in News, UK at 1:47 pm by yuka
Official now. Isn’t that nice? We get them last as per usual. Even Australia gets it a day before us. It’ll be around £180 for us lot in Blighty. North America will get their’s come 19th November, bundled with Wii Sports, but of course, the native country gets more launch titles. Either way, looks as if Wii will be the only console making it for the mad Christmas rush, seeing that PS3 has been delayed til March next year.
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09.15.06
Posted in Japanese, News at 11:33 am by yuka
That’s the launch date for Japan. Costs about £125. You’ll get the following: Wii console, Wii remote control (with strap), nunchaku controller, Wii AC Adapter, Wii AV Cable, Wii console stand and support plate, Sensor Bar and stand, AA batteries x2. The pricing and date for outside of Japan will be announced shortly via the various Nintendo branches, according to the home site. Here’s what you can do with Wii (Europe version’s still in development).
16 titles are set to be released at the same time as the console launch, among them, much awaited titles such as Zelda: Twilight Princess, Odoru Made in Wario (Odoru, means dance), Elebits, Red Steel, Wii Sports, and Super Monkey Ball. DQ Swords is due to come out next spring, as is a Bomberman game. Super Mario Galaxy, Smash Bros. X, Mario Party 8 and Metroid Prime 3 among others are set for a next year release.
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09.10.06
Posted in Japanese, News, UK at 9:27 pm by yuka
FF V Advance and FF VI Advance will be released 12th October and 30th November respectively. Both costs approx. £25.20 and will be coming out for the GBA.
Meanwhile, Sony has announced that there’ll be no worldwide launch of their new console PS3. One of their spokesmen (so many articles on this out there, so I haven’t made a note of which one) have said that the Europe launch is being left until as late as March next year, because there are so many technicalities. Sure, Europe isn’t exactly a ‘priority’ when it comes to launching games or consoles… ever, because compared to the Americas and Japan, there really isn’t that many gamers. Nonetheless, at E3 this year, there was so much hype surrounding the fact that a worldwide launch was in the pipeline for both Sony and Nintendo that for the former to now say (they might as well have said so, anyway) ‘well, you guys aren’t important enough’… can be taken as a form of betrayal. In any case, it’s a big let down for people over here who had banked on getting it before Christmas, never mind how much it’s supposed to cost!
Talking of PS3, so many games for it are being discussed on Japanese sites. One is Lair which is categorised under Flight/Action Adventure – fly and fight on a nice big dragon. One for Pern series fans perhaps? Afrika, meanwhile has no genre attributed to it, but from what was seen of it at E3 this year, people say it looks realistic enough. Another Action Adventure, Unknown Realms, is set in a tiny European village, and explores what happens ‘after death’, apparently. A third of the same genre, Heavenly Sword wowed crowds at E3 this year, and is touted as one of the best fighting games seen in recent years. So… this recent turn of events – that the PS3 launch for Europe is delayed – must be a bit of a blow for gamers who’d heard so much about the above games since E3.
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09.04.06
Posted in Japanese, News at 12:22 pm by yuka
The number of spam comments that I filter through daily has increased steadily over the last few weeks. Why is it Bollywood ringtones though, eh? Talking of spam, I seem to be getting an unreasonable amount of in-game spam on WoW too – always about cheap in-game gold. Fuck off!
First up is the news that Nintendo MP3 Player’s coming out, simlutaneously as the DS Browser, in Europe. If Famitsu can be believed, the Japanese version’s all popular over there – whether this will hold true over here looks to be another matter. No definite release date as of yet.
Etrian Odyssey, known as 世界樹の迷宮 in native Japan, will be going across the Pacific to American shores sometime early next year. For the DS, costing approx. £26 (in Japan, out this autumn), and categorised as an Action/RPG, looks to be quite interesting for those of us who like RPGs but don’t really like the tamer turn-based ones. Us across the Atlantic, can hope, I guess. (Another RPG for the DS, Luminous Arc will be coming out sometime this winter.)
On the 14th, Nintendo’s set to do a little conference on Wii, and promised to give us the release dates/pricing by the end of the month. But that’s in Japan. Similar conferences are to be held in New York and London.
Square Enix, for the Tokyo Game Show 2006 (held at Makuhari Messe, 22nd to 24th), will have quite a few playable games at their booths. The public will be welcome on the latter two days between 10am and 5pm – anyone who’s a junior high school student or over will have to pay 1,200yen for entry (anyone younger, free). Some of the line-up is as follows: DQ Monsters Joker, Legend of Mana 4, Chocobo and the Magic Picture Book (チョコボと魔法の絵本), FF XI Treasures of Ahturghan, FF III, FF V Advance, FF VI Advance, and FABULA NOVA CRYSTALLIS FINAL FANTASY XIII. Click here for their official site and line-up (click on each one to see details), or see this for some of the screenshots. (FF V Advance is coming out for the GBA on 12th October, by the way.)
PS – Don’t know if I’ve mentioned this in my earlier posts, but back in August, saw a sequel of that Brain Training game. Will we get a sequel here? Or is it only for the puzzle-crazed people of Robot Monster Land?
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