No real point in doing a Switch version when none of the other games in the franchise are on the platform and they are all connected. I wouldn't recommend anyone to start with the Crossbell arc.
There's no way that they're getting Switch ports. The Sky games would have to get them first and the Cold Steel games would likely have to come too at some point, and I don't really see porting the whole series to a new platform as a priority for XSEED.
I wouldn't recommend starting from Cold Steel either really, but Crossbell is an even worse place to start.
It might be a bit too early to say that people will be fine starting from CS when they've only played the first 2 out of 4 and 3 is bringing back a bunch of the characters from the older games. Who even knows what's going to happen with the final one.
Well, as far as I'm aware, we're simply going with a script insertion for PSP. That meaning everything will be in edited English. However, it's possible that there will be a few text overflows, given that we are focusing on the PC version. For PC, we plan to make the port run smoothly, change textures in-game, and all sorts of other neat stuff. Hopefully that cleared things up!
Crossbell is much more dependent on older games than Cold Steel is (at least I and II).
That's really weird. I would never want to start in the midle of an arc like that.
We can analyze the sales of earlier games in the series, which did not break 100k. So either a lot of people bought used copies or they started with the Crossbell games.
As for the greater context: We did not initiate this project. When the original project lead and editor simply vanished without a trail (pun intended), the translation team decided to release their work unedited to, understandably, not have their efforts go to waste. When I learnt about that, omgfloofy and I decided to step in to finish what the original project lead should've been doing. Our motivation was to prevent fans from experiencing a highly literal translation, as the translator Guren had been instructed to by the original project lead, of this great game. It was unfortunate that one QA tester leaked a in-progress version back in February, but the many fans were still willing to wait for the edited version reassured us that we did the right thing. Initial progress was slow, until supremezerker offered to help, who led us to where we are now.
The PC versions runs on Windows 10 and the Japanese version, which we're working with, has no kind of DRM as far as I know.
The overarching story in Akatsuki is unrewarding, and the amount of effort/time/grinding/money it demands to advance is ridiculous. The enjoyment lies primarily in gathering favourite characters and the timed/seasonal exclusive characters.
Had no idea since I'm still in the beginning. Just got to Grancel.
My secret head canon is that Falcom/user joy will release an offline version when they decide to wrap up the story, and make the necessary adjustments. If Xenoblade 2 can get away with gacha elements in a single-player rpg...
Since there are strings within the executable that would need to be translated, this modified executable would be released of DRM as well.
We aim to wrap up editing Zero's script Summer 2018. As the three of us are primarily focused on editing the script, Ribose continues to proofread, keeping consistency throughout the script and tracking issues, JoseJL is busy polishing insertion script and the sloppiness found in the PC port, and Floofy has been working on editing images. That means that once the editing is done and the images are inserted, we can delve into QA straight away.
just wait for the edit if unless you're really impatient, there's plenty of screenshots floating around on twitter showing the ...quality it is right now.
