How awesome are the Gagharv games?

[Kyle G]

Heard they're great, but heard the PSP translations suck, and I'm not willing to buy old PSP games just to read a bad translation.

[LrdDimwit]

More or less you heard correctly.

[DDR]

Most fans would tell you the PC versions are better in terms of gameplay etc, but they're not translated. They indeed are great games and it can be interesting for Trails fans because Gagharv games are pretty much the foundation of how Falcom went about making Trails.

[LrdDimwit]

I myself am optimistic XSEED will pick them up for a redo.

My headcanon is XSEED announces Crossbell around CS2 PC's release. They'll be out of Trails games to localize (other than CS3) and it's better to strike while the iron's hot. Crossbell takes awhile, but by 2020 they're out of Trails games again (except for keeping current with the new arc and/or CS4). To keep interest in Trails high - it's about 60% done at the 13 year mark, remember - they'll want to license other similar games to avoid the fanbase gradually drifting away. Hence it will make sense to pick up Gagharv, probably in the early 2020's.

[Sergei Lou]

The games are good (played the PSP versions, though). Nice story and pacing, combat is a bit "meh". Only A Tear of Vermilion and Prophecy of the Moonlight Witch have a bad translation (think Leaked Zero PSP levels), but Song of the Ocean feels and reads better (it's still far from XSeed levels of quality).

They really feel like "proto-Kiseki" games, and that's good.

[iemander]

Originally posted by LrdDimwit:

I myself am optimistic XSEED will pick them up for a redo.

My headcanon is XSEED announces Crossbell around CS2 PC's release. They'll be out of Trails games to localize (other than CS3) and it's better to strike while the iron's hot. Crossbell takes awhile, but by 2020 they're out of Trails games again (except for keeping current with the new arc and/or CS4). To keep interest in Trails high - it's about 60% done at the 13 year mark, remember - they'll want to license other similar games to avoid the fanbase gradually drifting away. Hence it will make sense to pick up Gagharv, probably in the early 2020's.

Yeah if they're still in business by then. Zwei sold a spectacular 2000 copies.

[LrdDimwit]

Says who? Steamspy? Hah, according to Steamspy they sold about 5k copies of Little King's Story. If that were really true they wouldn't have continued their PC port business at all.

[chester.longdon]

I'd also like to believe Gagharv gets a better translation one day, but I doubt it would realistically come from XSeed. The Sky games get a lot of flak for looking dated and the first Gagharv game came out about 10 years before that. Our best bet as fans is probably a fantranslation. Maybe once the group working on the Crossbell arc finishes they could be persuaded to look at Gagharv.