Non-announcement Friday
Hi Everyone. It’s Friday and that means it’s time for … um well I was going to announce the latest game we’ve signed but unfortunately a few loose ends still need to be tied up before I can announce this. I’m very sorry, it’s almost as frustrating for me as it is for you. I’m particularly excited about this game and I can’t tell anyone about it :(. Well not too much anyway.
Since we mentioned we would being making an announcement I’ve seen loads of guesses and been asked lots of questions from people trying to work out which game we’re going to be announcing. I’ve also seen at least some people who managed to guess correctly so I thought I’d run a little unofficial competition. I’ll mention anyone who manages to guess in the announcement blog post. If you want to guess feel free to post in the comments to this blog post or tweet at my Twitter.
Anyway since guessing games aren’t any fun if you’ve got no clues here are some things that I’ve already said along with some new clues;
- The game is a PSP game
- It’s also a JRPG
- The mystery JRPG has already been released in the US
- The game is set in the aftermath of a large war.
- The Japanese version of the game features well over a million Japanese characters (that’s an awful lot :))
Be careful one of these clues can be misinterpreted fairly easily. Yes I could have reworded it but I didn’t why because I’m evil :).
Anyway hopefully I’ll be back soon with the actual announcement. Until then Happy Guessing.
Ross
Comments:
Its got a long name hasn't it? Starts with Legend and ends with Sky. It must be Trails in the Sky, a game I've been waiting three months for on PSN!
Just so everyone knows I'm not going to comment on any guesses until we make the announcement.
Has to be Legend of Heroes Tits
Don't laugh at my guess, but is it The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky?
Oh, and I was just wondering if you guys were still considering any other games besides this mystery JRPG?
So the non-announcement is The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky.
The ones I'm gonna say have been out for a while in the U.S. but here goes: Blazing Souls Accelate Crimson Gem Saga Hexyz Force Mimana Iya Chronicle :)
@Phi We're still chasing some more games as well and we're always looking out for more to go after.
sounds to me like you're getting your TitS out :D (sorry)
Trails in the Sky?
i will be dissapointed if this is TITS game. it's ok game but i wanna something new that is not released in US. some ultra crazy PSP game :) i'm expecting only in my dreams something like Another Century Episode R Portable or some SRW game :) or somethin extra weird japanese game :)
@FisttOfNorth License problem if westerner were to release Another Century Episode R Portable or SRW game.
Maybe I'm just being optimistic, but Fate/EXTRA? It's a PSP JRPG, it's announced for the US (though I suppose it's not released per se) and it would be set after the last Holy Grail WAR. Plus, there seems to be a lot of dialogue in the game, plenty of on screen Japanese Characters there. Haha, I think I'm being just a little too hopeful, it's probably not the right answer.
@Vanilla: I guessed the same but Mr. Ross already said that it isnt going to be that one :/ I also give my vote for the LoH TitS. Damn, why do I have to laugh that heard when I say that everytime ??? xDDDDDD Oh and Ross: I found a nice guy on ebay selling the Collectors Edition of Agarest Zero ! The price is tremendously low though. Anyway, I will be able to play it then, yeaaaay ! :D
@Vanilla, boy would that be awesome if true but I doubt it is. I was wondering, would Ghostlight ever consider bringing over Valkyria Chronicles 3 to Europe? There's been no announcements for the West and every Valkyria fan wants it to be released here but are having lots of doubts considering what news (or lack of) there's been.
just google it :3 it's The Legend of Heroes :D
would seem a little strange releasing Legend Of Heroes to be honest. By the time the 2nd/3rd parts of the trilogy are ready the PSP is gonna be well and truely over. There already having problems releasing the 2nd part in the US.
we could only wish we get a game like that considering we short on a lot off jrpg for psp. and it's supposse 2 be jap dubs only finally for a psp game @Ross does this psp game have original soundtrack if not i'm not buying it i'm alrdy getting sick off waiting for p3p 2 appear on the store and little chance off me actually buying it by the time it getting a release
i think that every anime is outside of Japan for Another Century Episode R Portable. Tatsunoko vs. Capcom was released otuside Japan so i think they can handle ACE R Portable :) PS 3 version have a few anime that isn't released otsuide Japan. yep, SRW is licensing hell but someone must pay for that i hope, someone with a lot of money :)
@Dgnfly It does indeed have the original soundtrack. As for P3P I've been chasing that with my boss and I should have an announcement about that soon.
@Dgnfly It appears my memory has been playing tricks on me. The voice acting is in English. Not that there is much voice acting in the game.
@Ross must be a mistake it should have been adressed 2 Vanilla post on the fate/extra game. some weird reason either i forgot it or a moderation problem.
@Dgnfly Don't worry about it.
When you say one can be misinterpreted easily, do you mean the last one? "Japanese characters", you could mean as in people or as in the writing because the Japanese writing is refered to as 'characters'. Or am I looking into it too much? :P
@Amy Maybe :) I'll explain more when we make the announcement
Are you considering releasing your next psp games on umd + psn or only through psn? Don't take it badly as i really wish to support you, but i fear that releasing games who have already been on the us market for a while without hinting at all that you're considering or might release them in eu is costing you a decent chunk of sales. In term of timing what you did for agarest was great, not so much for p3p sadly.. On another note do you have any idea if you will release all agarest 0 dlc in one go or will you release them over a few weeks?
@Charon Unfortunately due to NDA's we can't say too much about games while we are negotiating for them but we do try to announce them as soon as we can. I can tell you though that we will be releasing the new game on PSN and UMD and we are going to try our best to ensure that the release dates are as close together as possible. As for DLC I'm not too sure what is going to be happening there but I'll try and find out for you.
@Ross thank you for your answers. I guessed the nda isn't helping you a lot, i really hope Ghostlight will be able to get into a lasting partnership with a few Us publisher at some point so we in eu will have more chance to get a glimpse at all those rpg we keep missing. On a shorter term i really really hope you will be able to bring P2p and Fate/extra to this side of the ocean. Since you're still considering publishing umd, do you think some kind of collector's edition with some bonus + a psn code to download the game on the psn is possible? It could help sales with the vita closing near and some extra bonus in limited quantities might help to boost the price to around 50-60�/unit which might make the package viable for you? Well i guess you must already had some brainstorming about this.
@Charon Believe me we're aware of both those games with P2P's performance in our poll and my Twitter feed went mad when Aksys announced Fate/Extra. As for your idea with the PSN codes not sure how workable it is but I'll pass it on. I've also heard back from my boss about the Agarest DLC and he hopes to have more news for me next week.
It seems like Legend of Heroes: TitS is likely, though Aksys in America just announced Fate/Extra and Hakuouki - both of which I would LOVE to be released here *hint hint*
@Judwai Lots of people seem to want Fate/Extra don't they. I'd quite fancy doing it too actually.
I'm going to also guess Legend of Heroes: TitS. Also, tangentially, any word on the five games that you mentioned that Ghostlight were interested in bringing over? My curiosity has yet to be satiated.
@Markaza This is one of the 5 games we mentioned. As for the others I'm not allowed to say too much but we've not managed to get one of them. Negotiations are still ongoing for the others and we're also looking at some games that weren't in the original 5.
@Ross would you know if there's any chance you might do some summers sales on your old psp games on psn? thanks!
@Charon I'm not sure what our plans are in terms of sales. We did one over Easter so I wouldn't rule it out.
Boo Hoo here hopeing it was be catherine to be the mystery game with the lose ends to tie up. Im a sad panda :(
@Ross Thanks for your answer! Another little question since it seems the annnouncement is delayed, if you don't mind :) If you do happen to be working on LoH : TitS and announce it when the time comes right, would it be possible you're also working on localizing on our rpg forgotten psn Wizardry: Labyrinth of Lost Souls? been waiting for it on the psn since, well since it's been back up.