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Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim - Localization Blog #2

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    [​IMG]Brittany the Production Coordinator at XSEED Games posted a new Tumblr blog about translating and localizing Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim for English gamers.

    This is Brittany, Production Coordinator at XSEED Games. I was the editor and graphic text monkey for the PC version of Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim. I normally also do Steam achievements for our games (and my early work was...something, let's be real here), but the honor this time fell to our extremely dedicated in-house tester, Danielle.

    I thought I'd take this time to talk about my relationship with Ys. My first real interaction with the series was shortly after I'd started at XSEED as a lowly prisoner intern with Ys: The Oath in Felghana. XSEED as a whole was new to Steam and, to be quite honest, I was not a PC gamer. I definitely wasn't into high-speed action RPGs, either. I was asked to test the title after being given a brief run of what Ys was ("Red-haired guy goes on lots of adventures"). Everyone was excited.

    Except for me.

    I hated it! Oh, man, did I hate playing Oath in Felghana at first. Like said, I wasn't into action RPGS-I was into turn-based battles or slow, methodical strategy games. I didn't know enough about Ys to really enjoy the characters or world, I never was big on the whole "silent protagonist" thing, and I kept dying! Death, death, death! Death at every corner! My co-worker had added an actual achievement for dying because he kept telling me that was half the fun of Ys, but I was just getting frustrated instead.​
     
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