Terranigma is awesome, Illusion also awesome. Tales of Phantasia, also awesome, love the PSX remake, the GBA remake not so much. Gunman's Proof is also good, sort of Zelda-ish with Earthbound's humor and shooting guns instead of swinging a sword.
By going on their Twitter pages and dropping comments??? By sharing with friends who appreciate the series??? By spreading the word on Reddits for /secretofmana - /seikendensetsu - etc. And getting the attention of fans?? By getting the attention of people who worked on localization for SoM and...
Was going to post this in the Reddits for /secretofmana and /seikendensetsu but they have a character limit...
If you haven't heard yet, SQUARE is going to be bringing the first three Mana series games to the Nintendo Switch, but only in Japanese.
The team behind the port, M2 (@hor11 on...
Anyway, it might be helpful to the cause if somebody can also bring up the subject of the Seiken Densetsu Collection at the RHDN forums and pretty much any other forum where freelance translators and RPG fans congregate.
Ted Woolsey did the entire translation of Secret of Mana in a month... Granted, he had to condense everything to make it work and it doesn't look anywhere near as good as Fuyosa's Variable Width Font version. But he did it.
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/localization/localization2.htm
I ~can~ import it, yes, for way more than I would pay for an audio CD of music whose lyrics I can't interpret without the help of someone else's translations (remember Centigrade-J? Brian Boo Stewart's old site from mid 2000? Fun times.)
I can throw down for an import of whatever album, and...
And Dir en grey didn't even know they HAD fans outside Japan, UNTIL the fans in USA, UK, Brazil, Russia proved otherwise. Square doesn't have to live in a bubble either.
Can we not just express the tiniest little sliver of optimism? The whole point of the #localizemana campaign is to get Square...
"If this is released with Seiken Densetsu 3 in English I will get it, because I want to play that game with an official translation. If it doesn't I will just not buy."
Oy vey... That's the main point of the fan campaign. To get Square to see that an official english localization is wanted by...
"If a translation exists, Square Enix would have it, not us. If not, I don't think it's impossible to make one but we haven't looked into it. If you really want an Eng ver, I think the best chance would be to show Square Enix your enthusiasm."
This isn't going to happen unless fans directly...