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INTEREST: NISA Localizes Imageepoch & Satelight's Time & Eternity Game


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DmonHiro





PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 5:01 am Reply with quote
Dude... that preview was awesome. yeah, the aniamtion and stuff looked great, but the narrator was freaking awesome. Laughing
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blaizevincent



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PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 5:44 am Reply with quote
NIS you continue to be my favourite company in games as well as anime
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ConanSan



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PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 6:14 am Reply with quote
It's appreciated but I'm sure there's other games to localise than Tokitowa that could do with the buzz.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 9:37 am Reply with quote
This looks really good! I'll probably pick it up when it comes out, as I enjoy games like these. NISA also likes to include both tracks on their games.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 10:06 am Reply with quote
captokita wrote:
This looks really good! I'll probably pick it up when it comes out, as I enjoy games like these. NISA also likes to include both tracks on their games.


This game has a whopper of a cast, so I'm really glad that Namco didn't pick it up in America.

Zack/Player (voiced by Tsubasa Yonaga)
Toki (voiced by Kana Hanazawa)
Towa (voiced by Eri Kitamura)
Enda (voiced by Yuuki Aoi)
Reijo (voiced by Yukana)
Weidy (voiced by Mamiko Noto)
Makimona (voiced by Aya Endou)
Bikodo (voiced by Tomokazu Sugita)

I'd hate to not be able to hear KanaHana as a main character again like with Tales of Graces.
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Mune



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PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 11:36 am Reply with quote
I've been waiting for this announcement since before it released in Japan...

This is why I continue to own a PS3 and play JRPGs.

I'm hoping it will be awesome.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 11:56 am Reply with quote
I've been told this game is absolutely terrible, and the sales certainly matched that opinion.
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RyanSaotome



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PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 12:05 pm Reply with quote
Primus wrote:
I've been told this game is absolutely terrible, and the sales certainly matched that opinion.


People say that about nearly every otaku game that NISA picks up. You either like them or you don't, and if you aren't the target audience you likely won't.

Most of the complaints just come from people complaining about fanservice or the perverted main character trying to peek on the girls and being obsessed with panties and stuff like that. Typical anime stuff.

http://operationrainfall.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/full5.jpg

If that screenshot offends you, you'll probably be best off skipping this game since thats the kinda stuff that pisses off the non otaku.


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darkchibi07



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PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 12:20 pm Reply with quote
Primus wrote:
I've been told this game is absolutely terrible, and the sales certainly matched that opinion.


I bet it's because of the whole "HD animation RPG" tagline they're pushing because I've seen some of the gameplay videos, and the "animation" looked like a glorified motion visual novel; it's pretty misleading.
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tasogarenootome



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PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 1:20 pm Reply with quote
I'm on the fence for this one. When Imageepoch first started teasing this game, I really liked it, liked the plot, liked what I saw of the main character. But I think a lot of what I've seen since (things like the JPG Ryan Saotome linked) have been a bit counter to my original expectations. I dunno...I'll wait and see...
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 1:27 pm Reply with quote
lots of love for nis these days
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superdry



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PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 2:36 pm Reply with quote
RyanSaotome wrote:

Most of the complaints just come from people complaining about fanservice or the perverted main character trying to peek on the girls and being obsessed with panties and stuff like that. Typical anime stuff.


There are also a fair number of complaints about the low framrate for the animated portion of the gameplay. It's a lot better than original trailers showed, but you can definitely see that it's not as fluid as everyone expected it to be due to what IE was touting the game as.

Maybe because I'm a much older gamer, but the animation quality reminded me of the old interactive SEGA CD games or animated cutscenes, say, from Popful Mail - so, to me, it's has a certain nostalgic charm to it even though it could be better. Then again, it was a really ambitious title from Imageepoch and they aren't a huge developer.

Gameplay wise - it's okay. Battle system isn't terrible (very similar to the BRS game battle system). Average/mediocre is probably the best way to describe the game overall.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 2:38 pm Reply with quote
superdry wrote:

There are also a fair number of complaints about the low framrate for the animated portion of the gameplay. It's a lot better than original trailers showed, but you can definitely see that it's not as fluid as everyone expected it to be due to what IE was touting the game as.


I can kinda understand those complaints, but it doesn't really bother me. IE is a small developer who doesn't have the money to do a major project where everything is super fluid, so it looks fine based on the kind of developer they are. I play lots of lower budget games so having those kinds of issues just come with the territory.
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superdry



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PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 2:49 pm Reply with quote
RyanSaotome wrote:

I can kinda understand those complaints, but it doesn't really bother me. IE is a small developer who doesn't have the money to do a major project where everything is super fluid, so it looks fine based on the kind of developer they are. I play lots of lower budget games so having those kinds of issues just come with the territory.


It doesn't bother me either, but the expectations of fans were, I think, too high after IE touted as the game as a Full HD animated RPG. I think people thought the game would be literally like playing an anime with fluid animation (the cutscenes are done really nice though by Satelight).

Then again, maybe there was some type of technical limitation where the framerate of the characters in-game turned to be that low.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 3:17 pm Reply with quote
Primus wrote:
I've been told this game is absolutely terrible, and the sales certainly matched that opinion.
It sure looks like it is. For all their talk about "keeping the jrpg alive", imagepoch sure has been underwhelming. The animation sure doesn't look good, it looks very strange, somewhat awkward, and cheap. And yeah the subject material looks kind of well...........yeah not what I'm looking for. Did they really have to have panty flashes? Either way, I'm sure Tales of Xillia will also be out in the summer so at least there's another console jrpg coming
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