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I think JAST's announcement is for School Days Remastered, with the dub. According to VNDB, JAST released an earlier version of the game way back in 2012: https://vndb.org/r13087

I’m still so unbelievably upset about Id Software (literally THE Id Software) basically being butchered,

Nobody14 wrote:

I’m still so unbelievably upset about Id Software (literally THE Id Software) basically being butchered,

Given the poor reception to the past few Doom games that's not that surprising.

The anime was released in the United States, and its original airing ran up against an actual murder, hence the NICE BOAT meme, which has been canonized by School Days developers, 0verflow. But the original game never really made it over. So JAST taking up the banner and bringing this out is one heck of a drop.

I think JAST's announcement is for School Days Remastered, with the dub. According to VNDB, JAST released an earlier version of the game way back in 2012: https://vndb.org/r13087

Nobody14 wrote:

I’m still so unbelievably upset about Id Software (literally THE Id Software) basically being butchered,

Given the poor reception to the past few Doom games that's not that surprising.

And heck, something I've seen very few people mention is that JAST is offering School Days Remastered (and their accompanying English Dub of it) to people who already own School Days HQ for FREE.

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The revised products will be available on a rolling basis in territories where Nintendo of Europe conducts business (…): Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom.

The level of misinformation in this article about School Days' release history is absurd...

invalidname wrote:

I think JAST's announcement is for School Days Remastered, with the dub. According to VNDB, JAST released an earlier version of the game way back in 2012: https://vndb.org/r13087

^ Pretty much this.
JAST has had School Days HQ available on their site for anyone to purchase for well over 14 years now. Not to mention the physical editions sold back in the day.
Seeing this article on ANN pop up and acting like the release of School Days Remastered is somehow the first time the original game is being localized at all is absurd... School Days is a generational classic, and the game being available in English for such a long time is a part of that.

And heck, something I've seen very few people mention is that JAST is offering School Days Remastered (and their accompanying English Dub of it) to people who already own School Days HQ for FREE.

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Anyway, putting that out of the way. As I've already said in the thread for the original announcement, I'm extremely surprised and excited about the prospect of getting to revisit School Days with this new English dub cast. I greatly applaud JAST for going in on a project like this and breathing new life into the series.

However, the third entry in the main Days series, Cross Days, never received an English release (And fan translation efforts hit a brick wall because character limits prevent legible English translation. Both School Days HQ and Shiny Days had the same issue, but the engine was upgraded for the English localization to make it work.). To my knowledge it didn't go over well in Japan initially, but it was likely more the content of the game that prevented Sekai Project/JAST from localizing it. Due to fears about US law (which honestly were likely unfounded given how lax law is towards hand drawn/animated depictions of things), a specific route from Shiny Days was axed entirely for its US release but offered as a content patch (I can't remember if the patch was official or fan made though.). Cross Days effectively has a whole subplot revolving around similar content to that and would likely have been harder to excise. If it gets a remaster, perhaps JAST will make an attempt to bring it over without alterations given how much the VN scene has exploded over the past decade and show just how much you can get away with (As long as you don't release on Steam).

Nyren wrote:

However, the third entry in the main Days series, Cross Days, never received an English release (And fan translation efforts hit a brick wall because character limits prevent legible English translation. Both School Days HQ and Shiny Days had the same issue, but the engine was upgraded for the English localization to make it work.). To my knowledge it didn't go over well in Japan initially, but it was likely more the content of the game that prevented Sekai Project/JAST from localizing it. Due to fears about US law (which honestly were likely unfounded given how lax law is towards hand drawn/animated depictions of things), a specific route from Shiny Days was axed entirely for its US release but offered as a content patch (I can't remember if the patch was official or fan made though.). Cross Days effectively has a whole subplot revolving around similar content to that and would likely have been harder to excise. If it gets a remaster, perhaps JAST will make an attempt to bring it over without alterations given how much the VN scene has exploded over the past decade and show just how much you can get away with (As long as you don't release on Steam).

Yeah, more work can go into these VNs than you might expect. Things like converting them over to a new engine to get them working on current systems or to make them workable at all. Back when JAST picked up a several games from around 15 years ago, which I think were license rescues, the prior company had some 90s era VNs that were in a bundle. Those kind of worked, but not very well, and somebody else got them working as browser games. JAST ended up partnering with them, made a link available, and anyone could just go and play those for free.