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[SlimeGooGoo]

This trailer is to announce that we are officially working on Sakura Wars 2. The project has been in the works for about a year and a half now, and we're finally at a point where we're comfortable with announcing it. To give you all a taste, we have translated and released the original demo of the game that was released a few months before the final game release in 1998.

Sakura Wars 2 - Special Demo English Patch

This translates the Sakura Wars 2 Special Edition Demo into English. This is intended to be a reveal for the Translation Project for the main game. The demo can be found in Redump's archive as Sakura Taisen 2 - Kimi, Shinitamou Koto Nakare...

segaxtreme.net

 

[a multicultural team of v]

Super excited for this. Played the first one emulated but will be playing this on real hardware.

The translation scene these days is incredible. Two games always stood out to me in the 90s as games I wanted to play but figured I never would be able to - Racing Lagoon and Sakura Wars - and in the past two years BOTH of them have been translated to English.

 

[a multicultural team of v]

Since nobody else will care I hope you saw this:

 

[Alexios]

We knew this but nice trailer.

I hadn't checked the game in detail and thought it's almost 1:1 with the first, what are those seemingly real time 3D koubu (the awesum steampunk & spirit powered mechs) models shown used for? They look cool but the battle scenes shown seem to use the same 2D visuals (sprites out of renders etc.) of the first game. Or do they? Maybe they're for flashy special attacks? I thought only the Dreamcast and later sequels had 3D but these look great as precursors to those.

If only teams like this and Bulk Slash's were doing Princess Crown instead of whoever had dibs on it a decade now. If it doesn't release this year and just teases fans again with how it's almost, almost 100% done but life etc., other folks will hopefully finally say fuck it and work on it independently.

Folks should watch the original anime series too, it's pretty fun and less haremy without the dating sim stuff (duh, non interactive medium), more about bonds and friendship between them all (which the game also has but there are often clearly meant to he flirty options even after you've settled on one so can't go far with the others). I don't enjoy the characters and themes of later stuff as much but they're probably good too if you look up the order to watch and play it all in.

 

[EDMIX]

Keep this thread up.

(I just need that link to copy over to Sega so they can send that cease and desist)

 

[pramod]

This is amazing.

Hopefully someday even Sakura 3 can be fan-translated. We can dream.....

 

[Alexios]

Keep this thread up.

(I just need that link to copy over to Sega so they can send that cease and desist)

Why would they if they didn't for the first game and some spin offs which were known before release too, as well as loads of other since completed and ongoing translations? Don't be silly.

 

[EDMIX]

This is amazing.

Hopefully someday even Sakura 3 can be fan-translated. We can dream.....

Didn't the last one Sega did do pretty well?

Maybe they'll do some collection and port or remaster all of theses to get people up to speed. We can only hope.

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Sega: Sakura Wars Series Sells 300K in Fiscal 2020 - The Combat Revue Review

In their 2020 financial report, Sega revealed that the Sakura Wars franchise sold 4.1 million units, up from 3.8 million reported in 2019.

www.combatrevue.com

yea so....I don't now if thats good, bad lol

Toshihiro Nagoshi on Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Project Sakura Wars Sales

Toshihiro Nagoshi announces Yakuza: Like a Dragon sold over 300,000 copies, comments on the game and Project Sakura Wars sales, lack of full voice acting.

www.dualshockers.com

 

[SlimeGooGoo]

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[cireza]

Since nobody else will care I hope you saw this:

That's a translation/hack by Supper. This person has been doing professional quality translations/hacking for quite some time now. Incredible stuff.

Home - stargood

stargood.org

I highly recommend his Moldorian patch for Game Gear :

Moldorian: Hikari to Yami no Sister - stargood

stargood.org

 

[GHound]

Those numbers are outdated. Here's from the last report
So, from 4.1 (2019) to 5.8 (2022) means it's doing reasonably well.

https://www.segasammy.co.jp/english/ir/library/pdf/printing_annual/2022/ir_2022_web_all_e.pdf

Read the fine print and you'll see that that includes the 1.5+ million downloads of the mobile game that ended up bombing.

 

[SlimeGooGoo]

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[cireza]

It was closed down June 2021.

2021 reports 5.1 sales/downloads.
So at least some 700k were not from mobile sales.

They should have released this game on all platforms. Wasted opportunity.

 

[EDMIX]

It was closed down June 2021.

2021 reports 5.1 sales/downloads.
So at least some 700k were not from mobile sales.

Either way, I hope it becomes a standard thing that we see that series ported more often to the west.

I hope Sega does a whole campaign like they did on Yakuza and get us some remakes, remasters and get everyone up to speed lol

I suspect they are doing that with Persona though as I predicted maybe they'd do the same with Persona this gen, that they did for Yakuza last gen and so far...they seem to be going in that direction with the ports of Persona 5, Strikers, Persona 3 and 4.

That means we might see a Persona 1 or 2 remake down the line.

Regardless, I feel the same can be done with Sakura Wars to get new comers up to speed as not to have them feel they NEEEEED to know the whole series years prior to care about any of the new games. Look at the wonders that Yakuza Zero, remake 1 and 2 did for the series. Something is scary about seeing a 5 or 6 behind a game and be like "hope you like it" lol

 

[SlimeGooGoo]

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