RPG legend Nihon Falcom is celebrating their 40th anniversary. Whole chunks of their back catalog are not available for purchase, or even in English, but let's see how much we can solve for that.
Hey man, you missed one of the ys games (it's not cannon in they're story but it did release with both an eu version and an au version after the jp. It's an rts called ys strategy and it came out in 2006
Funny, I ended up seeing this game existed well after writing this piece, unclear why it wasn't in the master lists of games I was pulling from. Just never ended up adding it in here, I probably assumed I had!
Thanks for writing this! I too am late to the game with several long running/older series and have also begun exploring them through importing recently. It's nice to see someone else walking the same path. Saga, Tales, Digimon, Mystery Dungeon, Ace Combat etc but Dragon Slayer/Falcom is by far the most intimidating, so your article is pretty nice.
I recently picked up a copy of Falcom Classics for the Saturn (just have to wait for shipping), but I couldn't find any translation patches for it (except maybe Ys) but you mention English translations above. Are the games partially translated on disk already? Also regarding that compilation, do you know if that version of Xanadu includes Scenario II or is it just vanilla?
Hey man, you missed one of the ys games (it's not cannon in they're story but it did release with both an eu version and an au version after the jp. It's an rts called ys strategy and it came out in 2006
Funny, I ended up seeing this game existed well after writing this piece, unclear why it wasn't in the master lists of games I was pulling from. Just never ended up adding it in here, I probably assumed I had!
Thanks for writing this! I too am late to the game with several long running/older series and have also begun exploring them through importing recently. It's nice to see someone else walking the same path. Saga, Tales, Digimon, Mystery Dungeon, Ace Combat etc but Dragon Slayer/Falcom is by far the most intimidating, so your article is pretty nice.
I recently picked up a copy of Falcom Classics for the Saturn (just have to wait for shipping), but I couldn't find any translation patches for it (except maybe Ys) but you mention English translations above. Are the games partially translated on disk already? Also regarding that compilation, do you know if that version of Xanadu includes Scenario II or is it just vanilla?
Thanks :)