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This game has always looked very interesting and fun to me, and I’d love to get the chance to experience it in English on the PC! Many times original games along these lines were created for PC (Ys comes to mind) and are not released on PC simply because it is believed that the US market will only buy RPG type games that are available on consoles. Many fan groups such as the one I belong to have sprung up to fill in this untapped market, offering fans a free English patch to many games that are still available for legitimate import purchase. In some cases, fan productions quality eclipses even that of professionally produced products (Final Fantasy 4 J2e)! Some of these fan projects have even helped companies to make the decision to release games that had never come state side before, even YEARS after their original releases (Final Fantasy 5 on PS1 comes to mind here)!

Now PC games seem to be the main moving force of these once “rom” hackers and the number of PC game hackers/translators is growing tremendously. Why? Out of the desire to expand these markets and show that these games are not only fun, but wanted in the states! Entire graphic novels such as Kanon, Fate/Stay Night, Tsukihime, Clanned, Wind –Breath of Heart- are on going projects by many different groups, and these are simple (lengthy) visual novels (most of them are pornographic in nature, however one could argue that isn’t why they play them). Full fledged interactive games such as Melty Blood (and its expansion pack Re-ACT), the Touhou shooter series, Farland Symphony, and Arcturus (which was coming state said but suddenly vanished into thin air!) are all projects different groups have aspirations to complete!

I’m not sure this long comment will be approved, but I hope someone reads it and at least finds it interesting.

I live in Norway and will order this game from the US in a heartbeat as soon as it is released.

I’m really looking forward to this game, and I’ll *buy* it as soon as it comes out.

My biggest concern is piracy; I hope you can still turn a profit after it gets posted to the large torrent sites. It’s regrettable, but a large minority of fans have some sort of entitlement complex where they expect everything for free. If you’re only releasing the PS2 version, that should probably help a bit…

oh it’d be wonderful if the GA games were released in english :]
I’ve been wanting to try playing one of them for a while…too bad I don’t know enough japanese >..> one of my friends d/led all the GA games on her computer in chinese (and OMG they were 7 GIG each o.o) lucky for her because she understands it….
Too bad chinese won’t do me much good…plus the space it takes up is way too much >.>

I hope you’ll get to release all the GA games eventually~ ^^

I’m more than internested, going directly to the forums to jump all over this >:3

I’ve also recommended the game to my friends in Hong Kong. Seems the popularity abroad is still spreading. Anyway, I think piracy, or the entitlement complex you speak of will be less of a problem with tightening anti-peer to peer laws. I’m worried I won’t be able to double-up, I am not reading ‘the President’ instead of ‘the Fuhrer’ in official FMA subbing, for an example.
Popular comedy-action series like G&A have much obscure Japanese humour that works the same way which has to be explained in paranthesis.

So while I condemn piracy I feel eliminating fansubs would diminish some of the experience… until we all learn Japanese language and culture anyway. ^_^

I’d love to play it!

i want to play the games and i dont know were to find them. I also wish the galaxy angel 2 Series would come out in manga books soon