which game do you want a translation for the most?
basically asking backloggd users the question in the title: if there is ONE game that does not yet have a translation, neither fan-made nor official, in english or a language you can understand otherwise that you could magically wish into having one, which would it be? it can ONLY be one game. provide some explanation as to why it would be yours in the comments and ill add it! also this is first come first serve, if someone picks your first choice, give me your second choice (unless someone takes that one too then gimme your third, and so on).
32 Games
ludzu - as a diehard love-de-licker i would use my wish to have this text heavy spiritual sequel to moon translated into english over pretty much anything else, knowing full well there's not much chance of it happening because of how difficult a fan translation must be. i technically want to play ufo: a day in the life the most of any japan-only game, but its not nearly as dependent on reading the text to play, and i could probably do some work myself to get the gist of what text is there. its just pure stubbornness to have full context of the game's personality on my part.
GutterTrash - "segagaga, 100%. Every other untranslated game at this point im really interested could probably be at least somewhat understood without a full translation (Germs, SMT Devil Summoner, Linda3) or already exists in english (EP PSP as sussy baka mentioned). I want to be able to witness the pure fucking batshit of sega essentially jerking itself off and have an even remotely small idea of what the fuck is going on. sounds like the exact kind of insanity i'd love. ive heard the game is infamously difficult to translate tho so thats a pipe dream if there ever was one."
kingbancho - "going to have to say kurohyou because i have a feeling a moonlight syndrome project is in the works, the translation currently out is wildly imperfect, and because the game is made for me. motion comic cutscenes, ps2 yakuza exploration, def jam combat"
AlexaLily - "My pick for the list would've been Garage but then that got a fan translation and an announcement for an official localization at practically the same time, so I guess I'll be boring and suggest Kurohyo 2. The extremely janky fan translation of Kurohyo got me interested enough to see more of those characters and the combat was surprisingly fun. Also I'm a sucker for the Yakuza games and am desperate for more."
BeachEpisode - "My reason is it looks adorable. A Maruko-chan-esque Earthbound."
QuilDewIvy - "The reviews for it made it seem like a powerfully charming game that,, just in footage honestly make me feel a flurry of childlike things. It's so strong with the aesthetic that the fact that it's something I could be missing out forever on hurts like hell!"
rocket_coaster - "Linda³ - mostly because i'm -really- curious about what's going on in this game. you have these 3 scenarios set in alternate timelines with the characters role changing in each one: in the first one, there is a whole town of psychos wearing santa claus suits, another has a mad scientist dressed as hitler and his robot daughter and the third one you basically have to build noah's ark. it has a lot of that characteristic mid to end 90's anime edge and experimentalism, i mean, just look at this fucking commercial!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX8ZQ19bDkA"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX8ZQ19bDkA"
DustyVita - (from the discord) "It released basically right when I caught up with the series but never made it west. There was a PS2 game but it was just trying to be an okay boxing game while this actually captures what a fight in Ippo feels like with their signature blows and a story of dream matches and alternate what-ifs. And there was a drought of Boxing games at the time this could've filled admirably."
Baka_Ouji - "Wanted Persona 2 EP (PSP) because it’s a sort of remake of P2 with an extra soundtrack and improved all around, similar to the P1 and P2IS remakes on PSP, and generally it’d be nice to have P1-3 all playable in English on the PSP"
Batrice - (from the discord) "the sheer vibes of dragon quest are some of my favorite in gaming and i'd adore being able to explore those worlds with my own character"
PansyDragoonSaga - "Furry solaris body horror nightmare by people from both Quintet (Actraiser/Terranigma) and Zeque (Kowloon's Gate). The opening and cinematics alone are unreal and have this totally unique horrific atmosphere. Literally looks like nothing else!! I tried to play with my limited translation skills but it seems far too conceptual and wordy to make much headway :((("
mellorine - "chocobo's mystery dungeon on playstation - it's the only other game that masashi hamauzu of final fantasy x fame wrote music for that i'm interested in playing other than final fantasy xiii (and xiii-3), but a complete english translation just doesn't exist."
BansheeNeet - "A lot of my big wishlist games are already here, so I'm going to go with a weird one: Twinbee RPG. An entry in the Twinbee series that isn't a shooter, but instead a 3D PS1 RPG. It has a cute artstyle and presentation, and I've always liked the look of the Twinbee cast so them being in a more story-based thing is appealing to me, as well as it being a 3D game on the PS1 of course. Also there's some dating game mechanics in it for some reason? I'm very interested in it, even if it doesn't seem like the greatest game."
BasedSimeon - "i think its interesting to see the yakuza characters in a different time period"
debitnotcredit - "shin megami tensei nine. produced during the twilight years of cozy’s career, a period where he felt burden by the creative restraints opposed by the alignment system and desired to push mainline in a more nuanced direction. nine found itself being the rough, penultimate realization of these newfound ambitions and functioned as a crucial learning point for atlus staff. nine (heh) alignment choices, the intersection of the internet and spiritual ideology, the artificial resurrection of mythological archetypes.... so many fascinating concepts invoked here. gotta play it some day"
Cerb - "Square Enix street racing rpg with the most ridiculous Nomura designs ever, it looks like such a fuckin vibe"
MrPixelton - "Kowloon's Gate. A PSX FMV Adventure game about Chinese philosophy in cyberpunk Hong Kong with a sick soundtrack sounds like the coolest shit ever and I just really want to see what that's all about, considering it's status as cult classic in Japan."
Liquidrocks - "i dont like writing i just feel like an important piece of a puzzle is missing for me after having playing other ldl games but not this one"
Hattori - "Hungry Ghosts without a doubt. King's Field/Shadow Tower like game made by the Ghosts n Goblins guy."
goznog - "since they're a pretty overlooked country when it comes to gaming at large, how about a Taiwanese game? this is a whole series, but I'll nominate the third one for the crazy story and mechanics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xuan-Yuan_Sword"
Lot0 - "If I have to pick one, then Solid Runner. It's from Sting, a videogame company that has a bunch of other interesting titles, some that are translated and even released, and some others that aren't. I'm really curious about its setting, plot and its 1 V 1 combat, like the first Dragon Quest."
Pikadourei - "For me its absolutely gotta be the Saturn/PSX version of Baroque. My favorite games are JRPGs with dark sinister aesthetics accompanied by minimalistic narratives and if Baroque is as good as it looks I have no doubt in my mind it'll take a spot up there. Also the ost just bangs!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJKLaM-Mb1s"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJKLaM-Mb1s"
Yalighieri - "I've been a whole ass day thinking of just one game that i want translated above the others, but i guess i'll go with Velldeselba Senki, a story heavy, janky flight-sim RPG, i need that!"
Lehuan - "Giftpia is a life-sim/adventure game by one of the directors of Chibi Robo, who also worked on Moon, for the Gamecube, it seems to be sort of like a more surreal and story focused Animal Crossing, where you oversleep the day of your coming of age ceremony, get sent to jail for it, and are forced to do different jobs to pay off the debt for a new ritual or else you'll be stuck as a child forever. You also have to drag a ball and chain and your face is pixelated at the start of the game, but later you find out there are other paths to adulthood by helping others.
I'm kind of a sucker for Shenmue style life-sims, or anything that resembles it, this game has stuff like having to eat and sleep which Animal Crossing doesn't really have, despite my comparison, so I'd love to see for myself how its systems are. Plus, it seems very quirky and charming."
I'm kind of a sucker for Shenmue style life-sims, or anything that resembles it, this game has stuff like having to eat and sleep which Animal Crossing doesn't really have, despite my comparison, so I'd love to see for myself how its systems are. Plus, it seems very quirky and charming."
Androu1 - "Kenka Bancho 4 because 3 (Badass Rumble) was lit as hell but it was the only one to get localized. I honestly wish all of them got translated (except the otome, don't really care about those) but I'll just pick 4 as it's the next one after the one we did get."
ZeifWagner - "Kajiri Kamui Kagura because it's the sequel to one of my favorite VNs and the general aesthetics appeal to me A LOT. It's a shame that a translation will probably never happen officially or fan-made considering light went bankrupt, Dies Irae kickstarter campaign had a lot of problems, and the novel itself uses tategaki, it's full of past Shinza Bansho games references, and uses old japanese + chuuni prose."
ghost_girl - "i think mine that isnt on here is pixygarden, either version. so gorgeous and really conceptually fascinating, kind of fairy princess maker with gardening and two radically different ui presentations"
twilightblues - "i don't know much about the plot, but the visuals are super charming and feel like if early layton games were rpgs. there have been attempts to translate it but there's been no recent news so far, nevertheless i really hope to see it in english one day!"
FMTownsParty - "My 3 bigguns are on here already (Segagaga, Hungry Ghosts, UFO) but I can't think of another game that's LESS likely to get a translation than Germs: Nerawareta Machi. The landscape and audiovisuals are probably doing 9/10ths of the legwork if I had to guess, but it'd still be nice to have some better sense of the world."
Superesse - "A cyberpunk JRPG with an eery horror atmosphere and a very intriguing story about terrorism, religion, parasites & more. It's made by the same development studio behind Hellnight/Dark Messiah...and it shares some staff with Kowloon's Gate!"
soutapengin - "An otome rythm game-like visual novel from the creator of Tokyo Ghoul and Choujin X. Basically about a girl attending an all-boys opera school with lots of romance, gorgeous art and a beautiful soundtrack on top of it"
Cyrano
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Moonlight Syndrome
OG Devil Summoner
everything in my backlog that is untranslated
OG Devil Summoner
everything in my backlog that is untranslated
ill add persona 2 unless you wanna make a case for something else, and why that game specifically (asking so i can add your input as a note to the entry)?
segagaga, 100%. Every other untranslated game at this point im really interested could probably be at least somewhat understood without a full translation (Germs, SMT Devil Summoner, Linda3) or already exists in english (EP PSP as sussy baka mentioned). I want to be able to witness the pure fucking batshit of sega essentially jerking itself off and have an even remotely small idea of what the fuck is going on. sounds like the exact kind of insanity i'd love. ive heard the game is infamously difficult to translate tho so thats a pipe dream if there ever was one.
Goemon 3, Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon.
that was at @baka_ouji but also should make clear: you only get ONE choice and you gotta say why it would be that!!!
going to have to say kurohyou because i have a feeling a moonlight syndrome project is in the works, the translation currently out is wildly imperfect, and because the game is made for me. motion comic cutscenes, ps2 yakuza exploration, def jam combat
added sggg and kurohyou!! im also putting up p2 moonlight and goemon 3 with the names of those who first suggested it attached for now, but if anyone is interested in stealing one of them by saying why it would be THEIR choice, then its all yours...
Gokinjo Boukentai for me!
of all the games i've wanted to play that are still untranslated, Boku No Natsuyasumi is probably the one. Even though it's probably like, one of the hardest to do so :(
My reason is it looks adorable. A Maruko-chan-esque Earthbound.
ah forgot reasoning. The reviews for it made it seem like a powerfully charming game that,, just in footage honestly make me feel a flurry of childlike things. It's so strong with the aesthetic that the fact that it's something I could be missing out forever on hurts like hell!
Linda³ - mostly because i'm -really- curious about what's going on in this game. you have these 3 scenarios set in alternate timelines with the characters role changing in each one: in the first one, there is a whole town of psychos wearing santa claus suits, another has a mad scientist dressed as hitler and his robot daughter and the third one you basically have to build noah's ark. it has a lot of that characteristic mid to end 90's anime edge and experimentalism, i mean, just look at this fucking commercial!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX8ZQ19bDkA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX8ZQ19bDkA
Wanted Persona 2 EP (PSP) because it’s a sort of remake of P2 with an extra soundtrack and improved all around, similar to the P1 and P2IS remakes on PSP, and generally it’d be nice to have P1-3 all playable in English on the PSP
@baka_ouji GOTCHA it's officially your entry now!!
Planet Laika ;_;
Furry solaris body horror nightmare by people from both Quintet (Actraiser/Terranigma) and Zeque (Kowloon's Gate). The opening and cinematics alone are unreal and have this totally unique horrific atmosphere. Literally looks like nothing else!! I tried to play with my limited translation skills but it seems far too conceptual and wordy to make much headway :(((
Furry solaris body horror nightmare by people from both Quintet (Actraiser/Terranigma) and Zeque (Kowloon's Gate). The opening and cinematics alone are unreal and have this totally unique horrific atmosphere. Literally looks like nothing else!! I tried to play with my limited translation skills but it seems far too conceptual and wordy to make much headway :(((
A lot of my big wishlist games are already here, so I'm going to go with a weird one: Twinbee RPG. An entry in the Twinbee series that isn't a shooter, but instead a 3D PS1 RPG. It has a cute artstyle and presentation, and I've always liked the look of the Twinbee cast so them being in a more story-based thing is appealing to me, as well as it being a 3D game on the PS1 of course. Also there's some dating game mechanics in it for some reason? I'm very interested in it, even if it doesn't seem like the greatest game. Also, sorry that there doesn't seem to be a Backloggd page for it.
i almost want to put in a placeholder for it until it's in the database, any ideas? or should i just add the original twinbee and say its the rpg one, actually?
I think just using some Twinbee game as a placeholder would work for now!
that's how it'll be for now then!
this is a really trivial choice, but chocobo's mystery dungeon on playstation - it's the only other game that masashi hamauzu of final fantasy x fame wrote music for that i'm interested in playing other than final fantasy xiii (and xiii-3), but a complete english translation just doesn't exist.
maybe i should just listen to the soundtrack anyway but that's just not how i get into soundtracks, sadly
maybe i should just listen to the soundtrack anyway but that's just not how i get into soundtracks, sadly
yakuza kenzan/ishin i think its interesting to see the yakuza characters in a different time period
i wanted to only say ishin but it isn't available on the website so put kenzan
i wanted to only say ishin but it isn't available on the website so put kenzan
shin megami tensei nine. produced during the twilight years of cozy’s career, a period where he felt burden by the creative restraints opposed by the alignment system and desired to push mainline in a more nuanced direction. nine found itself being the rough, penultimate realization of these newfound ambitions and functioned as a crucial learning point for atlus staff. nine (heh) alignment choices, the intersection of the internet and spiritual ideology, the artificial resurrection of mythological archetypes.... so many fascinating concepts invoked here. gotta play it some day
(as a side note, i’d love to see somebody finish subbing that nocturne documentary. appreciate how someone went ahead and subbed the first twenty or so minutes, but there’s still a treasure trove of developmental stories and discussions left untranslated in the back-half. i’ll throw the links here, the first one is the incomplete sub and the second one is the complete, raw video)
https://youtu.be/w-d4qgVKDcU
https://youtu.be/KXUOoUjxLig
(as a side note, i’d love to see somebody finish subbing that nocturne documentary. appreciate how someone went ahead and subbed the first twenty or so minutes, but there’s still a treasure trove of developmental stories and discussions left untranslated in the back-half. i’ll throw the links here, the first one is the incomplete sub and the second one is the complete, raw video)
https://youtu.be/w-d4qgVKDcU
https://youtu.be/KXUOoUjxLig
here ya go https://www.backloggd.com/games/twinbee-rpg
ufo
@BasedSimeon Ishin actually has a fan translation done by KHHSubs (if you don't mind reading from a pdf) and there's a team working on making a patch to get it working in-game (look up MsDarkLow on youtube to see progress/updates on it). Kenzan had a team working on it but that project seems to be on indefinite hiatus now.
My pick for the list would've been Garage but then that got a fan translation and an announcement for an official localization at practically the same time, so I guess I'll be boring and suggest Kurohyo 2. The extremely janky fan translation of Kurohyo got me interested enough to see more of those characters and the combat was surprisingly fun. Also I'm a sucker for the Yakuza games and am desperate for more.
My pick for the list would've been Garage but then that got a fan translation and an announcement for an official localization at practically the same time, so I guess I'll be boring and suggest Kurohyo 2. The extremely janky fan translation of Kurohyo got me interested enough to see more of those characters and the combat was surprisingly fun. Also I'm a sucker for the Yakuza games and am desperate for more.
Racing Lagoon (PS1)
Square Enix street racing rpg with the most ridiculous Nomura designs ever, it looks like such a fuckin vibe
Square Enix street racing rpg with the most ridiculous Nomura designs ever, it looks like such a fuckin vibe
added all of these, and thank you jakobvongunten for letting me know wrt twinbee rpg!!
@Liquidrocks ive added ufo with your name for now but i wanna hear why its your choice in your words :<
@Liquidrocks ive added ufo with your name for now but i wanna hear why its your choice in your words :<
Kowloon's Gate. A PSX FMV Adventure game about Chinese philosophy in cyberpunk Hong Kong with a sick soundtrack sounds like the coolest shit ever and I just really want to see what that's all about, considering it's status as cult classic in Japan.
@lud i dont like writing i just feel like an important piece of a puzzle is missing for me after having playing other ldl games but not this one
Baka_Ouji
2 years ago
Basically every HxH games (that HxH99 aesthetic)
Pretty much every game in my MegaTen list without a TL