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I’ve mentioned it earlier than, and I am going to say it once more; this business has an actual drawback with preserving its legacy. If any firm has been doing a commendable job of preserving their historical past, nevertheless, that simply could be Nippon-Ichi Software program, and their western department NIS America. Throughout our latest go to to the corporate’s workplace, we had the possibility to play among the upcoming ports and localizations for the Rhapsody: Marl Kingdom Chronicles assortment and it is the most recent in a now lengthy line of ports whereby the corporate has managed to deliver a few of their traditional titles again for contemporary platforms – an initiative that the remainder of the business ought to be listening to.

Before everything, it goes with out saying that these ports are nonetheless a piece in progress – although we did not run throughout any speedy points within the sections of each Rhapsody II: Ballad of the Little Princess or Rhapsody III: Reminiscences of Marl Kingdom that we performed. What we did see, nevertheless, was primarily all gamers may need needed for localizations of those two classics, over 2 a long time previous their unique Japanese releases.

Before everything; each video games have obtained dubs. Whereas the musical numbers keep of their unique Japanese, gamers can hear English voice tracks for the principle characters outdoors of those sections; and it is a very charming dub from what we managed to listen to, too. Gameplay has been preserved for each ports, and the visuals are freed from any nast filtering on the sprites – although the 3D components of Rhapsody III have had its decision boosted, after all.

Seeing as we solely had some transient moments to acquaint ourselves with both title’s gameplay, I am going to chorus from making judgments there – however for a launch like this, it feels prefer it does not actually matter anyway. Followers of the unique or its DS re-release have needed to wait a long time for an opportunity to play any extra of the collection, and now in just a few brief months, they will be free to expertise it for themselves.

It is solely lately that Atlus has begun to re-release their very own again catalog, however up to now that is been restricted to ports of Persona titles and Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne. Whereas Gust beneath Koei Tecmo has been good about releasing ports of the fashionable Atelier video games, it is solely been with the upcoming launch of Atelier Marie Remake that we have begun to see them dip into their again catalog – in the meantime, titles like Ciel noSurge Offline and Ar noSurge Plus, regardless of having trendy ports, nonetheless stay in Japan.

What NIS America and their father or mother firm have achieved with recurrently bringing their again catalog to trendy platforms can and ought to be counseled; doubly so once they take the time to localize decades-old RPGs, dubs included, whereas the corporate continues to localize its personal trendy titles. It has been nice to see, and with Rhapsody: Marl Kingdom Chronicles it feels just like the logical conclusion for an organization that has made it a part of its mission assertion to protect its personal legacy. I can not wait to test it out when it releases later this 12 months.