Scummy publisher Edia makes kickstarter for an incomplete collection of emulated games. Aside from physical paraphernalia, the only incentive for supporting the Kickstarter over just emulating the games on widely available ROMs is the English translation, hostage to an arbitrary stretch goal.
The stretch goal is reached and as expected it's a very bare-bones package with an emulation below the level of what the free alternative offers... but the game just doesn't have that promised English translation. How curious. đŸ¤”
Turns out paying for that stretch goal wasn't enough, as now if you want the English translation you have to buy a separate English release from... drum roll ¡Limited Run Games! ¡And they made sure to milk the shit out it!
As this is going on tho, Edia announces a second kickstarter... for a second installment of this incomplete collection of emulated games. Not only that, but they are now keeping games hostage under certain stretch goals. May I remember the readers that we're talking about EMULATED GAMES?????
But let's go back to the English side of things. As I'm writting this, sales of the English version have long ended but they haven't delivered the game yet, so buying the game from the already overpriced JP edition would be cheaper and quicker than actually buying the game in its official English publisher. Good old Limited Run!
Also... because hiring talent to modify the roms was too complicated, the subs are superimposed by the emulator. Which would be OK if they hired an UI artist or, IDK, cared a little to use a font that would fit the game's aesthetic, but alas it was too much for poor old Limited Run, therefore you're presented with subs that have lazier presentation than a third-grade fansub.
The dust has settled (for now, there are still games left to release so a third volume is not completely out of the question), Edia keeps making kickstarters for EMULATED GAMES of other franchises and to top it all of starts its own NFT brand which of course includes Valis tokens.
Valis X was more respectful to the franchise than whatever the fuck this is.
The stretch goal is reached and as expected it's a very bare-bones package with an emulation below the level of what the free alternative offers... but the game just doesn't have that promised English translation. How curious. đŸ¤”
Turns out paying for that stretch goal wasn't enough, as now if you want the English translation you have to buy a separate English release from... drum roll ¡Limited Run Games! ¡And they made sure to milk the shit out it!
As this is going on tho, Edia announces a second kickstarter... for a second installment of this incomplete collection of emulated games. Not only that, but they are now keeping games hostage under certain stretch goals. May I remember the readers that we're talking about EMULATED GAMES?????
But let's go back to the English side of things. As I'm writting this, sales of the English version have long ended but they haven't delivered the game yet, so buying the game from the already overpriced JP edition would be cheaper and quicker than actually buying the game in its official English publisher. Good old Limited Run!
Also... because hiring talent to modify the roms was too complicated, the subs are superimposed by the emulator. Which would be OK if they hired an UI artist or, IDK, cared a little to use a font that would fit the game's aesthetic, but alas it was too much for poor old Limited Run, therefore you're presented with subs that have lazier presentation than a third-grade fansub.
The dust has settled (for now, there are still games left to release so a third volume is not completely out of the question), Edia keeps making kickstarters for EMULATED GAMES of other franchises and to top it all of starts its own NFT brand which of course includes Valis tokens.
Valis X was more respectful to the franchise than whatever the fuck this is.