News → Eien no Aselia Update: Esperia Route Done
February 7th, 2010 by cheese
We’re done with Esperia. We’ll now finish up with Aselia’s route (the longest one.)
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We’re done with Esperia. We’ll now finish up with Aselia’s route (the longest one.)
February 7th, 2010 at 6:58 pm
Awesome, I can’t wait to play the game. Uruka looks like shes going to be my favorite female. Orpha looks like a yandere or some psychotic loli.
February 7th, 2010 at 7:38 pm
Keep up the awesome work!
February 7th, 2010 at 8:42 pm
Fantastic! I cant wait!
February 7th, 2010 at 9:55 pm
Same as Gladiator, Uruka should be my favorite unless another girl is just too awesome for me to not choose her. But in looks Uruka is my choice!
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Around 10% left ! Hurray !
February 8th, 2010 at 3:02 am
Looking at the progress, the translation might finish before end of this month. Can’t wait to enjoy it. Keep it up the great work!
February 8th, 2010 at 3:31 am
There’s already lots of great games out in Febuary/March,
now this too, great months for gamers.
February 8th, 2010 at 4:45 am
Great news, thank you!
February 8th, 2010 at 5:10 am
nice
February 8th, 2010 at 5:12 am
wogh, good news.
keep up good work.
February 8th, 2010 at 3:44 pm
wow aselia’s route is long indeed since it takes most of the 10 % left XD
Keep up the great works but remember to take breaks ^^
February 8th, 2010 at 4:40 pm
Starting to feel like a child on christmas
Nice work guys, keep it up.
February 8th, 2010 at 9:07 pm
Happiness
February 8th, 2010 at 10:29 pm
dunno what route to pick myself, ill prolly just go with the flow once i start.
keep it up!
February 9th, 2010 at 3:48 am
Team dakkodango recommends going with the flow, as opposed to using a guide on the first playthrough (at the very least), as the latter witll inevitably spoil you as well
. We’ve also been preparing a walkthrough for the game though, that should contain all the necessary information about, well, pretty much everything.
February 9th, 2010 at 3:57 am
good job guys!
really appreciate what you’re doing
February 9th, 2010 at 11:23 am
I’ve reinstalled the game, I’m all ready ! Bring it on !
A walkthrough ? I’m having butterflies in my stomach… This game is huge, so it will surely come in handy. Especially if the battle system is a little tricky.
Great job, loved your work on TTT too. I’ll miss the H scenes here though, no way you could put them in or something ? (I’m not that perverted that I can’t do without, but… Y’know !)
February 9th, 2010 at 12:14 pm
You guys done an excellent job in translating this game, can’t barelly wait for the final patch.
If you don’t mind me asking if already decided in the next project?
Sorry for the inconvenience.
February 9th, 2010 at 7:13 pm
So, I played the japanese version today. Just wanted to get into the first battle. The beginning had tons of talking. I kept skipping the text, clicking the enter button until my finger was hurting. I rapidily clicked for half an hour. (skip text was disabled or something)
Thats a crap load of text in this game. I can’t believe you translated all that. Thats a lot of work.
February 11th, 2010 at 1:00 pm
90! The psychological point of no return. Also a very nice number if it shows project completeion
February 12th, 2010 at 3:35 pm
IT’S OVER 9,000!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh wait a sec, its only 90.0%… BUT STILL!!!!!!!!
February 12th, 2010 at 3:35 pm
Make that 90.1%
February 13th, 2010 at 2:31 am
great job
February 13th, 2010 at 3:37 am
btw what do you intend to do once this projecy is over? ( well i know you’ll take a well earned break) Do you have another project under your sleeve?
February 13th, 2010 at 5:18 am
I’m curious as well, even if it might be too early to ask. We should just let them finish the current project
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I would enjoy anything, as long as it has gameplay ^^.
February 13th, 2010 at 6:51 am
I’m suprised the Sakura Taisen games never got a fan translation consider how popular they are in Japan.
February 13th, 2010 at 11:15 am
sakura taisen? which one are you referring to?
February 13th, 2010 at 1:49 pm
1-4 hasn’t been localized. 3 and 4 have PC released. I heard Sakura Taisen 3 is the best in the series.
February 13th, 2010 at 5:31 pm
Just seeing the progress say 90% make me smile.
Been visiting here now since the start of this project and
so happy to see it near completion, congratz on this big game guys.
February 13th, 2010 at 6:03 pm
i second the sakura taisen sugestion
February 14th, 2010 at 1:17 am
Already in the next game suggestion stage are we? Then might I suggest the sequel to Eien no Aselia, Seinarukana: The Spirit of Eternity Sword 2?
Then again, a break would probably be nice for the team since they practically pumped out Eien no Aselia right after Tears to Tiara (2 months break seems quite short to me >__> ).
February 14th, 2010 at 2:13 am
@Azure
I back you completely. I too would like to see Seinarukana translated after Eien no Aselia.
Also, if you decide to go with Seinarukana, there is an added advantage: it is highly probable that Nighteye159 will help out with the project as he has stated in the past that if a project to translate Seinarukana appeared, he would definitely aid with the translation.
February 14th, 2010 at 2:14 am
@Azure
I back you completely. I too would like to see Seinarukana translated after Eien no Aselia.
Also, if you decide to go with Seinarukana, there is an added advantage: it is highly probable that Nighteye159 will help out with the project as he has stated in the past that if a project to translate Seinarukana appeared, he would definitely aid with the translation.
February 14th, 2010 at 6:20 am
Oh wow, I didn’t know the sequel was on the PC. I thought it was PS2 only. That would make things a lot easier.
February 14th, 2010 at 7:32 pm
awesome work!
February 15th, 2010 at 1:39 pm
I noticed some of you talking about Uruka above. I’d recommend watching [url=http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=90]Rurouni Kenshin[/url] before playing her route, I believe her character design is a homage to that series. In more aspects than just visuals and fighting style.
February 18th, 2010 at 9:03 am
Cheese is a god among translators. This is one of the fastest translation speeds I have ever come across.
February 18th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
Feels great to see it say 91%.
Been following this since it was around 20 something.
February 18th, 2010 at 3:41 pm
Same here Masamune. Now if only seinarukana was translated. >.<. One can dream.
February 18th, 2010 at 7:45 pm
I’m looking forward to this being released it seems it might be a March or early April release when its done.
Gladiator just hold ctrl button to skip text since it fast forwards everything.
February 19th, 2010 at 7:25 am
hmm, just remembered the “old” saying that when you’re 90% done you have 90% left
and yup iv’e been following this ever since they completed the hacking part
February 19th, 2010 at 12:17 pm
Yup following this intensly since the start as well
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Even more since I hoped for the sequel to be picked up as well (the girls are way prettier there
But yeah we still have a long way to go.
9% left, then what’s left of editing, beta testing, we have a few months left at least I think.
February 19th, 2010 at 11:29 pm
I still doubt the existence of a editing/beta testing phase. This is partially because VNDB says that the expected release date is this month, and partially because the game is just so big that those phases would be extremely hard to effectively set up. I could just be extremely hopeful in believing this, though.
Nonetheless, Cheese is still a god among translators.
February 20th, 2010 at 12:37 am
VNDB is a website that has nothing to do with dakkodango (I believe), unless they were contacted by a member of the team I doubt their guess is any better than any of us fans. It’s probably a guess based on the progress speed, nothing more ^^.
If I remember correctly Tears to Tiara had something like 20 days of beta test (maybe a day or two shorter than that) once the translation and editing was done.
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If this game is even longer, than it will probably take more time… Well this is as well just a guess made from the previous experience with TtT
February 20th, 2010 at 1:05 am
http://dakkodango.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=68
Straight from the forums, it has been said that there likely wont be a large scale beta test, but other than that its undecided.
The post is from four months ago though, so it might have changed. I did not see any other post regarding it however.
February 20th, 2010 at 6:12 am
I put that release date on the VNDB. And that is an estimate, not a prophecy.
We still have some ways to go on translating the last remaining Aselia-route-only scenes. But baring the unexpected events, I’m positive that all will be done soon.
All three of us working on this diligently and playing the game in the meanwhile to test the parts that are already done, fixing the errors we encounter. So I can say that there won’t be much testing when the translation is done.
February 23rd, 2010 at 12:51 pm
Awesome news, so we might be able to play the translated game within a week!
February 24th, 2010 at 8:55 pm
Man, those last 10% are the harshest of them all !
I even actually purchased the game.
I hope the patch will be compatible with this version ( http://www.getchu.com/soft.phtml?id=310185&gc=gc ), since it seems it contain both games.
February 25th, 2010 at 2:30 am
Yes. It is ONLY compatible with that version, as it’s the only release of this particular version of the game.
February 25th, 2010 at 7:44 pm
Didn’t know that ^^;.
When I looked for the game I choosed this version thinking “just in case the sequel gets picked up” :p.
Good thing I did then.
March 1st, 2010 at 10:44 am
huh? isn’t that the ero version of the game? i thought this patch was for the non-ero version???
March 1st, 2010 at 11:39 am
I think the ero content in this one is only for the sequel of the game. (Not sure though, I can’t read japanese and didn’t try yet any of those game since I’m waiting for the translation ^^).
March 1st, 2010 at 12:09 pm
The version with the sequel is the non-ero version. It’s a port of the PS2 version brought back to the PC.
March 1st, 2010 at 1:10 pm
But there is ero in the sequel right?
March 1st, 2010 at 2:40 pm
You can refer to the announcement post, or FAQ post on forums for the details.
March 5th, 2010 at 1:48 pm
Man, that last 10% is killing me. 1% a week gah! ..Must……have..patience!!!
March 6th, 2010 at 5:37 pm
patience is a virtue……………..or so they say
March 6th, 2010 at 5:54 pm
In my opinion, the wait is the best part.
March 7th, 2010 at 6:45 am
I’m pretty sure that the best part for me, is when I’ll be able to get the translation ^^.
March 8th, 2010 at 1:56 pm
haha gotta agree Parame another 6% to go^^.
March 9th, 2010 at 6:06 pm
Yeah, I wouldn’t call the wait the best part by any means… The best part is when the translation has just been released, AFTER waiting for it all that time. And yeah, the buildup does make that all the more exciting, which I assume is kind of what you were trying to say.
March 10th, 2010 at 4:32 pm
I am watching the meter daily.
March 11th, 2010 at 9:53 am
I just started Agarest Generation of war on PS3. It’s a lot like EnA (well mostly).
Strategic RPG, you move on the map kinda like Eien No Aselia. There is romances and it’s kinda original.
You start as the hero, and as the story progress you’ll have to choose a wife. Depending on the wife your child will be different (in looks and stats), and you’ll switch at some point to your child to continue on the story.
There are 5 generations, each with different girls and different heroes. There is an alignement gauge as wel l(evil and good depending on your actions and choices, not sure what it does yet).
I’m just at the begining, at first I bought it to pass some time while waiting for EnA, but it’s really engaging, and apparently there are 100 hours of gameplay (20 for each gen), and I’m almost overwhelmed by all the choices… So there might be some nice replay value (not to mention romancing all the girls xD).
Here is the US trailer : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgOOPUj0lwo
March 11th, 2010 at 10:59 am
I don’t think Record of Agarest War has any similarities with Eien no Aselia. Unless you consider a SRPG with dating sim bits is “a lot like” a VN with SRPG bits…
March 11th, 2010 at 11:49 am
Well I didn’t play EnA, just watched some youtube vids. But I didn’t say they were really similar, just they are alike in lot’s of ways.
They are both S-RPGs with dating sim as you mentioned. Both have VN like dialogues (you know the usual with the BG the girl and the dialogues). You roam the world the same way (the map, with dots on it for each lcoations).
And well I guess that’s it, I can’t really say more since I didn’t start EnA yet.
But IMO they are enough alike that EnA fans could be interested in Agarest (which is why I mentioned it here if there are people like me looking for something to play while waiting for EnA :p).
After that it’s always possible to say that even though they are the same kind of games they are not similar because the story or the fighting is different <_<, but that was not really my point.
March 12th, 2010 at 8:22 am
I hope the next translation project is Sword 2…
March 12th, 2010 at 11:14 am
As seeing you are nearing completion of Aselia, I was wondering if you had chosen your next project yet? And as you seemingly like to translate fantasy RPG VNs, might I suggest you to do Ikusa Megami Zero as your next project? Along with Aselia it’s considered one of the best of it’s kind there and it would be wonderfull to get some of the Eushullys games translated. Or you could do Ikusa Megami Verita (well in this case it would probably raise questions whatever it should be translated before it’s prequels) as it’s probably released by the time you get Aselia out and are looking foward next project, that’s unless it really flops, but considering Verita already looks better than Zero I doubt it’s going to flop. But in the end what you end up doing after this, do what you enjoy most yourself.
March 12th, 2010 at 11:26 am
I’m personally more interested in “Seinarukana -The Spirit of Eternity Sword 2″ as it looks even better than EnA.
But if the team was to choose one of your propositions, I would be overjoiced as well. Those games are looking really good, Verita being the best looking one of the both suggestions. The art is awesome, and the girls pretty xD.
March 12th, 2010 at 1:03 pm
Well, what about Valkyrie Complex?
March 12th, 2010 at 2:34 pm
now, now. let them finish it before we start to bombard them with suggestions for future projects (hmm….. didnt i second one such suggestion a bit back…..meh, whatever
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March 13th, 2010 at 5:13 pm
I heard that the Manga Gamer is going to release Valkyrie Complex. Though I forgot where, so take it with salt for now. And yes, it’s not a good idea talking about next projects while a project is already going on, not in the next six months after it’s completion either
March 14th, 2010 at 6:29 pm
Epic 1% jump is epic.
March 15th, 2010 at 2:10 am
Indeed :p.
March 15th, 2010 at 6:36 am
I’ve been refreshing this web like crazy for the past week.
March 15th, 2010 at 9:47 pm
Pfft just the last week?
March 16th, 2010 at 2:24 am
Wow another epic jump, way to go guys
March 16th, 2010 at 2:44 am
Jeebus, less than 3% to go!
March 16th, 2010 at 3:40 am
Epic 1.2% jump after 1% jump is just plain win. Talk about an amazing translator…
March 16th, 2010 at 5:17 am
only 2,8% left now
March 16th, 2010 at 7:25 am
Ah not long to go now!
Since i been following this since near the beggining
seeing it this close to completion brings a tear to my eye, lol joking!
Anyway i hope the wait was worth it and the game is good.
March 16th, 2010 at 8:14 am
The progress really has picked up since the start of spring break! Really looking forward to playing this.
March 16th, 2010 at 6:54 pm
Just the past week?
And epic 1.2% jump is even more epic.
March 16th, 2010 at 9:21 pm
I was wondering………since Ive already applied the aselia fix downloaded from the Xuse website to the original jap game…….will it make things different with the patch? should i NOT have applied the fix? =x
And record of agarest war is good in the start but halfway through the third gen you start noticing its craziness…….and its just gets worse from there……i regret ever buying that game……
March 17th, 2010 at 2:28 pm
Now if only we had an epic 2.2% jump, there would be no more troubles in the world.
March 18th, 2010 at 8:21 pm
Meowminator, I am thinking of buying Agarest too. What is this crazyness that you speak of?
March 19th, 2010 at 12:53 am
is there a evil route all age’s ver.?
March 19th, 2010 at 2:37 am
Well, first of all, the version i am talking about is last year’s Ghostlight release of Agarest in the UK, so things might be different in the new release.
Agarest well…..is quite fun for the first 2 generations or so..even some into the third. But the difficulty of the game changes quite radically, and not only do you have a “turn limit” (limited number of battles you are allowed to fight) if you want to get the “true end”, so you cant grind, once youve made a mistake, its impossible to make up for it, whether it be in the heroine choices or w/e. Also even though i stopped playing the game halfway though 3rd gen, a friend of mine played it all the way through, and what he tells me is…..it was pure torture to complete the game. The game punishes you severely in the later chapters….(random enemies that kill your whole team in one normal attack, and are immune to physical and magical damage, anybody? Oh and you cant run from them) So yeah…
You might like the game though, who knows, but i do reccomend not buying it on impulse after taking a look at the nice art….like i did xD.\
March 19th, 2010 at 7:55 am
Lol I’m already having trouble with the difficulty and I’m at the first generation :p.
Still I think it’s a good buy even if I do not go past gen 3 (out of the 5).
I mean I paid the game 25 euro, for 35 I had the collector version. And apaprently the game is like 80 hours long. So even if I play 40 hours, it’s still a good hour/euro rate I think.
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Only 2% to go for EnA ^^. Last dash until the goal line
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March 19th, 2010 at 1:50 pm
omg only 2% these days the progress was very fast :O
March 19th, 2010 at 2:07 pm
Well since it’s a new release maybe things will be different? I don’t know, I’m still planning to get it nonetheless.
March 19th, 2010 at 8:52 pm
next week !!!!! agh………… i can`t wait !!!
March 20th, 2010 at 9:51 am
Cheese is a machine, but is a machine a cheese?
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I wish I could donate to this group… >.>
March 20th, 2010 at 12:45 pm
Wow, It’s already 98%; this made my day. Thank you Dakkodango.