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Should probably note that "no plans at this time" is just a recurring meme they do on streams for unannounced projects. It doesn't actually mean they're not actually working on itNISA confirms during live stream that Trails of Cold Steel IV will not be among their announcements next week, imply no plans for it exist at this time
Posted in r/Falcom by u/ShiningConcepts • 86 points and 104 comments
I wouldn't take this as confirmation that CS4 definitely isn't what we're getting next week, but I would lower expectations. Could very well just be them not wanting to comment.
I have zero doubt in my mind, that CS4 is being worked on and has probably been a thing NISA has been working on since before CS3's PS4 release, but yes you are right. As one of the posts in that thread said "no plans at this time" is just a really fancy way of saying "no comment."
Oh yeah I definitely think CS4's announcement wont be next week, (CS3 Switch release date maybe?) but I was just pointing out that the twitch clip doesnt mean they arent working on CS4 or dont plan on localizing it for anyone taking the clip at face value
extremely doubtful, with how Ys scripts are getting larger and larger with every entry, and lets just say the last time NISA tried to localize an Ys game in a year it ended up being a disaster.
eh? I don't know how any of this could really be interpreted as dropping the ball. Falcom games, and especially Kiseki games take time to localize, and Falcom isn't really helping when it comes to their policies. They don't even start discussing localization with their partners until the game is out in Japan, unlike others (Gust is a big one for example) that allows localization to be worked on as the game is in development.
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given that Japanese sales make up 75-80% of Falcom's sales I highly doubt that's true. Also the solution really isn't as simple as "just work on games while they're in development" in the case of Falcom. The way their games are developed makes it extremely chaotic for most. Kondo himself has spoken in an interview about how the localization team that released the Chinese versions of CS1 and 2 day and date with the Japanese releases could barely keep up and really struggled. Falcom localizations being worked on as the games are being made would probably introduce many issues of it's own for both Falcom and the localizer in question.
That is dumb though, 3rd is a fine game and its not liek you need to rush to get to other games considering there's a whole sub series thats still isn't localized.
I watched videos from Sky-Crossbell and was perfectly fine in CS3.
Getting called out for saying one needs to play the previous Trails games to understand the next one when you said in the past that the most important game could be watched instead of played == "dumb ass trolling"
I skipped it and went straight into zero. 3rds important plot points, mostly Doors, were perfectly summarized in a 20min youtube video. And all of them were boring.
