Will XSEED release a post mortem article on SC? Really would be interesting to know the ups and downs of localizing such a huge game.
We'll have more blogs, yeah. I won't be writing any blogs specifically to SC, though. Our PC programmer has some stories she'd like to share, and I know Jess is eager to write more on the localization side.
Are there plans to (try to) release it simultaneously or is Europe going to have to wait? Brandish took quite a while..
No, I don't think a simultaneous launch is possible. Europe is a lot harder compared to NA--multiple rating systems, all with different rules, and SCEE is a bit tougher as well. We'll try and keep them as close as we can, but I'm not really sure about Europe's window being Summer or Fall yet.
Falcom saving us from XSeed's indecisiveness when it comes to this series.
I wouldn't really call it indecisiveness (with me, anyway, lol). I want to work on the games until I drop dead.
Gagharv on PC? We've talked about it. I know Brittany and I would both really like for that to happen, but they are pretty old games that would be tough to get running up to modern specs and would look and sound pretty dated compared to other, more recent PC titles, so they'd be kind of a hard sell.
Still, they're great games, and you've got at least two people here pushing for them, so... maybe someday! (When we have fewer than 6 million other games on our plate.)
-Tom
Yeah, gimme all the Falcom games. I don't need sleep.
So I have the biggest, most important question that I don't think has been asked yet.
Are the empty chest messages happening?
If you're into the empty chest messages, I'm gonna straight recommend the PC version over the PSP version. Due to how SC was programmed, there isn't a single "text box" programmed for each and every treasure chest. There are multiple ones, but we basically found this out in QA when I laughed at a phrase in a treasure chest...then found that phrase like forty more times in other chests. And there's no way for us to change that for the PSP version (we changed the phrase throughout to be less obnoxious, btw), but Sara says she can actually fix that very easily for the PC version. So there will be more chest phrases in the PC version--a lot more.
Didn't they go back and patch that out of the JP release? On that note, I hope Xseed pushes to get the most recent patch onto the disc versions of Cold Steel. That'd be SOOOO good.
All patches that were put in both Cold Steel I and II will be in our versions out of the box.