Comment on What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games?
Gestrid@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I’ll also add The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky FC. I know there’s a remake coming out next year, but there’s a bunch of shady stuff surrounding how they’re gonna localize it. (Supposedly, they’re gonna use AI to try to do most of it and then have real people brush it up.)
So I’d recommend playing the original instead. It’s a 2.5D game with a mostly 360° camera. It uses turn-based combat, but not traditional turn-based combat. And it has a great story.
It’s also on sale for only US$9.99 on GOG (which is DRM-free) and Steam.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Oh no, are they really going to use AI to translate a Falcom RPG? That’s fucking heresy. The scripts in those games, are what set them apart from other JRPG schlock… The persistent/recurring NPCs having their own little side stories that you can miss or skip entirely if you don’t talk to literally every NPC twice every single day (I haven’t played a ton of Trails in the Sky series yet, was going to wait for the remake, but now I’m not sure… This take is based on Cold Steel and Zero/Azure), is one of the most charming aspects of these games imo… And, typically, it seems as though they put a lot of care into the localization. This is disappointing if true.
I get that these scripts must be massive but I’d rather wait an extra 6 months or whatever, if it means the NPC dialogue doesn’t read like ChatGPT.