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01-12-2024, 01:51 PM
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Following Hydlide and Silpheed (https://www.destructoid.com/two-new-eggconsole-pc-8801-game-hit-switch-today-silpheed-and-hydlide/) back in December, D4 Enterprise has released its next PC-88 port on Switch via their EggConsole line. This time, it's M?rchen Veil (Part 1), initially released in 1985 for the PC-8801mkIISR.
If you?re unfamiliar with M?rchen Veil, isn?t that just the best? Not knowing about a game that was just reissued? I actually do know M?rchen Veil because of the Famicom Disk System version (https://www.mobygames.com/game/55903/marchen-veil/) released in 1987. I don?t own it, but it?s one of the cheapest and most common games on the system, so I always see a copy when I?m looking for new ones to try. I haven?t bought it simply because I was afraid of the language barrier.
I bring that up because I wondered how D4 Enterprise addressed the language barrier since the story is told through cutscenes with Japanese text. The screenshot still shows the game?s text in Japanese, but I wanted to be sure, so I bought it and tried it out.
https://www.destructoid.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Screen_MarchenVeil102.jpg?w=640Image via Nintendo
Did they translate this PC-88 game? No. It?s still in Japanese (also katakana, confusingly). To be fair, I don?t think it?s impossible to play for English monolinguists. No direction is given within the game; you just won?t understand the cutscenes. The story is of a prince who is changed into a hooved Pan-like creature and his quest to regain his human form.
Speaking of no direction, I started the game and walked directly into what looks like a kiddie pool and died instantly. It?s a game from 1985; it?s probably going to be pretty cryptic.
On the other hand, as a Westerner without much experience with the PC-88, the EggConsole line is pretty exciting to me, with or without translations. The series is a spinoff of D4 Enterprise?s Project Egg service, and a number of the planned titles have already been announced, such as the PC-88 version of Ys and A Ressha de Ikou.
I?ll keep you updated, simply because this interests me and I want to. For now, EggConsole M?rchen Veil is available on the Nintendo Switch eShop (https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/eggconsole-marchen-veil-pc-8801mkiisr-switch/).
The post M?rchen Veil is the next PC-88 game on Switch via EggConsole (https://www.destructoid.com/marchen-veil-is-the-next-pc-88-game-on-switch-via-eggconsole/) appeared first on Destructoid (https://www.destructoid.com).
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Following Hydlide and Silpheed (https://www.destructoid.com/two-new-eggconsole-pc-8801-game-hit-switch-today-silpheed-and-hydlide/) back in December, D4 Enterprise has released its next PC-88 port on Switch via their EggConsole line. This time, it's M?rchen Veil (Part 1), initially released in 1985 for the PC-8801mkIISR.
If you?re unfamiliar with M?rchen Veil, isn?t that just the best? Not knowing about a game that was just reissued? I actually do know M?rchen Veil because of the Famicom Disk System version (https://www.mobygames.com/game/55903/marchen-veil/) released in 1987. I don?t own it, but it?s one of the cheapest and most common games on the system, so I always see a copy when I?m looking for new ones to try. I haven?t bought it simply because I was afraid of the language barrier.
I bring that up because I wondered how D4 Enterprise addressed the language barrier since the story is told through cutscenes with Japanese text. The screenshot still shows the game?s text in Japanese, but I wanted to be sure, so I bought it and tried it out.
https://www.destructoid.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Screen_MarchenVeil102.jpg?w=640Image via Nintendo
Did they translate this PC-88 game? No. It?s still in Japanese (also katakana, confusingly). To be fair, I don?t think it?s impossible to play for English monolinguists. No direction is given within the game; you just won?t understand the cutscenes. The story is of a prince who is changed into a hooved Pan-like creature and his quest to regain his human form.
Speaking of no direction, I started the game and walked directly into what looks like a kiddie pool and died instantly. It?s a game from 1985; it?s probably going to be pretty cryptic.
On the other hand, as a Westerner without much experience with the PC-88, the EggConsole line is pretty exciting to me, with or without translations. The series is a spinoff of D4 Enterprise?s Project Egg service, and a number of the planned titles have already been announced, such as the PC-88 version of Ys and A Ressha de Ikou.
I?ll keep you updated, simply because this interests me and I want to. For now, EggConsole M?rchen Veil is available on the Nintendo Switch eShop (https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/eggconsole-marchen-veil-pc-8801mkiisr-switch/).
The post M?rchen Veil is the next PC-88 game on Switch via EggConsole (https://www.destructoid.com/marchen-veil-is-the-next-pc-88-game-on-switch-via-eggconsole/) appeared first on Destructoid (https://www.destructoid.com).
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