Final Fantasy actually isn't that big in Japan so I'm not surprised there at least Unicorn Overlord is getting a decent amount of attention as they aren't all playing Rebirth like the Western RPG players areSorry not sorry for the quadruple post but the pre-order train in Japan for this title doesn't seem to stop!
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I’m going with PS5, since I played all Vanillaware games on playstation systems.
Xbox
It's not as bad as the anime localizations that are news recently. From what I've seen on boards, it's mostly just adding unecessary words and prolonging sentences along with medieval language.I mean I sort of knew it was coming after 13 sentinels and some of the lines just being so radically different to what is actually being said in Japanese but...
Apparently ‘Unicorn Overlord’ Already Has Issues With Its Localization
In yet another case of Japanese games receiving bizarrely edited localizations, it seems that 'Unicorn Overlord' is the latest of these to be affected.
I am still going to play it, but this is fire emblem all over again.
Since I am not playing it in portable mode, I picked PS5 for this game.
Switch because I'll most likely play it in handheld mode the most. If I didn't share the TV with my kids or occasionally travel for work I'd probably have gone PS5 since the game looks better there.
Switch because I have multiple docks around the house. I don't like to play games in just one area all the time.
Yup, it could be a lot worse.
PS5 since I can play it both on my big TV and semi portable via the Portal. That said, I did play the demo on my Switch as well and it looks and runs great on it.
They released really, REALLY good demo.
The demo is great but everyone covering this game is paid lol not saying that means the game is bad I am just not crazy about this type of marketing, it is good that vanillaware is getting more exposure, one of my favourite developer
I don’t care how they do it I just want to see this game get some damn exposure because apparently most big gaming sites are not gonna cover this game and not even EZA.
In the demo, the American accent on the narrator sounded particularly out of place. I think I'd rather play it with Japanese voiceovers and a dubious translation than suffer the voice acting I've heard so far. Sadly that doesn't seem to be an option.I mean I sort of knew it was coming after 13 sentinels and some of the lines just being so radically different to what is actually being said in Japanese but...
Apparently ‘Unicorn Overlord’ Already Has Issues With Its Localization
In yet another case of Japanese games receiving bizarrely edited localizations, it seems that 'Unicorn Overlord' is the latest of these to be affected.
I am still going to play it, but this is fire emblem all over again.
13 Sentinels mostly stuck to the JP script, but extended dialogue that was just a few words in JPI mean I sort of knew it was coming after 13 sentinels and some of the lines just being so radically different to what is actually being said in Japanese but...
Apparently ‘Unicorn Overlord’ Already Has Issues With Its Localization
In yet another case of Japanese games receiving bizarrely edited localizations, it seems that 'Unicorn Overlord' is the latest of these to be affected.
I am still going to play it, but this is fire emblem all over again.
PS5 truly has upgraded asset quality over Switch so I went with PS5. Gotta get that beautiful 2D artwork in true 4K lmao
Japanese: I will kill you.I mean I sort of knew it was coming after 13 sentinels and some of the lines just being so radically different to what is actually being said in Japanese but...
Apparently ‘Unicorn Overlord’ Already Has Issues With Its Localization
In yet another case of Japanese games receiving bizarrely edited localizations, it seems that 'Unicorn Overlord' is the latest of these to be affected.
I am still going to play it, but this is fire emblem all over again.
My favorite example of this is actually
You can.
That's a pretty dope cover, ngl.
Sometimes the EN translations are pretty good. And it seems to be largely the case here as well. The last translation that I thought to be better than the Japanese one was with FF Tactics: WotL. But I have a thing for flowery Shakespearean language.My favorite example of this is actually
JP voice actor says roughly "I wish I could have accomplished more before I died"
The EN version is clearly more poetic here
Also this is a wonderful gem that was made up for EN
Nina so cute and bratty in the EN script
I was posting those things because I liked them and I do like what I have seen of this EN script in the demo
My Amazon pre-order for the switch Monarch edition has been pushed back twice as well. From launch day to the 11th, and now they are saying April 22nd.
Play-Asia are pretty much asking me to cancel my order or wait over a month for my pre-order of the PS4 version. :/
So my options are to wait a month, get a refund and buy the digital copy on PSN, or get the Switch physical locally. What a pain, it doesn't help that I ordered DoDonPachi Blissful Death Re:Incarnation along with UO which they're going to retain to save on shipping if I choose to wait. Decisions...
PS5 demo was 4.3gb or something like that.
Either they grossly underestimated orders, or this has a lot more attention than previous Vanillaware games, because I've never had this problem before pre-ordering one of their games.
Game seems to just be ignored. There isn't even an entry for it on OpenCritic.
Someone on the UO subreddit has been playing a review copy and said "Review Embargo (Written/Video): March 8th, 00:00 JST".
