dooley422
中堅カップル Main Couple
I am a manaka fanatic. I will not abandon her as a friend did
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Post by dooley422 on Nov 13, 2010 18:40:12 GMT -5
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Post by chrnos on Nov 13, 2010 19:05:44 GMT -5
As I said before, it will all depend on how they decide to do the whole thing.
If is a straight port with just english text, it might be harder due to the fact that they call out your name, unless if they decide to go with what they did in tokimeki memorial 4.
What they did there was basically take out all the names, but make it so that when you send in your name in the game, it accesses some sort of server on their side, which then like vocaloid, reads the syllables and then gives different pronunciations and sounds to them, basically accents on different parts. Snce that is done, it sends the results and you can choose from like 3 choices of sounds, both your name and surname, making it sound a bit more natural.
Although if they opt to add english names, there might be people that might get disappointed, since they will most likely only add the most popular names.
Also cultural differences, you did say that they could cut out and do other stuff, like change the story, but that might end up being more work. So unless if they see the changes as being positive, it might not happen at all.
Changing the whole sounds archive might not be the best idea either, unless if it goes above expectations, which is rare for most of the games.
If it does happen it could end up being 3 new girls and events changed to match that of the oversea country.
In the end though is not an easy feat, after all even though people do want this, there will be aspects of society that will try to stop this from seeing the light of day.
We will be lucky if the current media doesn't start to say weird random nonsense if this does come out, heck, odds are that they might be on its tail even before it comes out.
All that aside though, it will be interesting to see how they will manage it all....
Unless if the end plan is to do this on the 3DS, which might have more features.
Also since the 3DS release date is more or less next year, who knows what will happen, it could be released for the ds, or the 3DS might be the one getting an oversea release.
We'll just have to wait and see...
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Post by mastersanzo20010 on Nov 19, 2010 21:33:58 GMT -5
I have to agree with chrnos in some right, however, I feel that they could really just leave the story alone. As far as age goes, yes, the legal age between japan and the us are different, but they should make a little cliffnote at the beginning of the game to state that "This game's culture is different from American culture, do relax." Also, high schoolers are still graduating at 18 in the usa and japan, and its suppose to be a high school setting, so people who say stupid stuff are also condemning our high schoolers from dating. I think my rant has gone on long enough
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