Wednesday, 25 November 2009

  • "But I Wanna Play!": Untranslated Games

    Some great games come from the good ol' US of A, and are all set for English speakers to play. Other great games come from Japan and need to be translated into English (or Spanish, French, etc.) for the West. While many of them eventually get here, there are other games that just don't make the cut. Sometimes people really want these games, but they just aren't picked up for one reason or another. Here's my list of games that I think should definitely be brought over into English:

    The iDOLM@STER



    Released on: XBox 360, PSP, Nintendo DS
    What it is: Do you like singing Japanese girls who want to be pop idols? I do. You play as a manager of a record label, and you manage the girls' careers. There are original songs to rehearse, minigames to play, and careers to make or break. To me, this seems like the perfect game for a Morning Musume fan (like myself) and I'm itching to play it. However, it's only released in Japanese, without even a Korean port for me to stumble through. Sucks!

    Princess Maker



    Released on: PC, PSP, PS2, Nintendo DS
    What it is: You are a retired hero, and the gods bestow upon you a 10 year old, which you need to raise to age 18. Depending on where you have her work and what she studies, she can end up as a farmer, a magician, a bondage queen, or a princess! (Bet you can't guess which one is the winning occupation.) There are 5 games, each with a different daughter and slightly different mechanics, but the premise never changes. Princess Maker 2 for PC technically has an English version: it was translated by an American company and never released officially, but it can be found if you'd like to try it. Games 4 and 5 have Korean and Chinese translations, but nothing in English is planned. Darn.

    DeathSmiles


    Released on: XBox 360, Arcade
    What it is: A side-scrolling shoot-'em-up featuring gothic Lolita characters. If you liked playing as Amy in Soul Calibur 3, don't you want to play a game that's full of the darn things?

    Sakura Taisen



    Released on: Dreamcast, Sega Saturn, PC, Gameboy, PSP, PS2, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii
    What it is: You play as the new commander for a troop of lovely ladies that act in musicals and hunt demons in psychic powered steampunk mecha. On top of being a strategic game, it's also a dating sim, so you can save Tokyo/Paris/New York AND get a girlfriend by the end of the game. The girls actually perform the musicals too, so for anyone who likes musical theater, that's another plus. Note: Sakura Taisen 5 is being released in English in 2010 for PS2/Wii. Buy it!

    What are some games that you've always been interested in but haven't been translated into English?

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Comments (21)

  • cutesycharm@xanga

    I'm sick of anime girls. They make me jealous because they are 100x prettier than real girls. fuck that. 
  • ChOcOChObO@xanga

    White Day. Although it has some bugs and random levels of difficulty that annoys the hell out of you, it's a good game to scare your ass off. Comes only in Korean.
  • Nevando

    I'm gonna hop aboard the Earthbound 3 train before anyone else gets on there [unless they've announced something while I haven't been paying attention?!]


    In the past I was far more observant about the types of games that the Japanese got that I really wanted, but now I simply don't pay all that much attention. Oh well.
  • Murazrai@xanga

    Ys VII, if I have a PSP.
  • canicus@xanga

    Seiken Densetsu 3. Dangit, I had to get a fan translation of that game lol. I'm also nerdy enough to have bought one Super Famicon game though I will never, ever play it not being able to read Japanese, not going to learn, and not owning a SF.
  • nooitzben@xanga

    @cutesycharm@xanga - remember they are just fake cartoons :) 
  • cutesycharm@xanga

    @nooitzben@xanga - I know, but that doesn't stop certain people from marrying them. >.> 
  • fountainofdreams

    We have Princess Maker 4 as a cellphone game in Korea. XD

    But I really wish they would release an English version of PM4 (the best graphics!!).
  • KristInRainbows@xanga

    Idolm@ster, yay! I would definitely play that one. I also wanted to play that Dream Club game, lol.
  • FOXHOUND_HQ@xanga

    Ryu ga Gotoku Kenzan! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTeuzygNR_g Its an action-adventure game about Miyamoto Musashi. 
  • Icecold4u@xanga

    AH-HA! You forgot a vital one for the DS, Jump Super Stars, and Jump Ultimate Stars...now, I know you can play without translations, go to an online guide, etc. etc....but unless you got the Patch I got, to translate almost everything, you have no idea what your comic says, or anything.


    I have it, and love it though.
  • Tazeyo@xanga

    I WANT TO PASS TOKIMEKI MEMORIAL (the first one).
    I've played it abit, but I keep running into walls and tripping or sleeping under a tree for weeks. Managed to grind to a good relationship with a girl, but suddenly the entire city hates me. Then the "best friend" character stole my target. I really want to just get the game translated, so I could try to screw up the BFFs future. UGH! Dx
  • xchinkylaydee@xanga

    I'm just waiting for the pokemon gold and silver? version on ds that's remade from japan. It comes out some time next year though in english.
  • should_I_Tell_You@xanga

    Any Itadaki Street game . . . but heck, there's games I want that HAVE been translated, but weren't mass-produced, like Ergheiz.
  • Viewtiful_Justin@xanga

    Mother 3, anyone?
  • thetruedarkness@xanga

    The "Princess Maker" game sounds fun.
  • Eyes_as_Red@xanga

    I speak decent Japanese, so I don't have to have them translated - I shouldn't be so lazy about it, anyway.  But I do wish that PS2 games were region free like PS3 games.  Then I wouldn't have to worry about modchips or anything like that.
  • Synhyborex@xanga

    haha there are plenty of games i wish were in english, but oh well...still kinda annoying in like final fantasy or something when the dubs are done, but the lip movement is still like it was before...confuses me =P
  • rising_zero@xanga

    Where do I even begin? We could have had a bunch of Fire Emblem games released a long time ago, but the first one didn't come out until 2003, and it didn't have Roy or Marth lol


    Oh well, at least Fire Emblem is being released stateside now...
  • RedZeppelin6@xanga

    I have the new Bleach game on Psp ( hacked psp) and can read about 15% 0f it ( 10% is english) Though a fighting game has little to read anyway. 
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