How long the game will be? No idea if you finished the script for the story etc so I am not expecting you know but I am missing a real action FRPG for hours.

I’ve just got a few more questions. So, as far as I understand it, the game will be free but the translation will be paid? Or will it be the other way round? Also, will there be multiple towns and villages? Why all the wilderness areas  are in 2D  but the villages are in 3-D?  Are there any side activities that we can do? I’m talking about little time wasters.  Will the game use the same sound?  Also, will the enemies and characters have some form of artificial intelligence? Thanks in advance. Edit, just a few more questions. You don’t think the game will be out by the 25th of September, do you? I am going to space camp for interested visually impaired students and I would like to play the full version while I am on the plane. Also, will the stream be in English so that we can understand it? Let me just clarify. I’m not asking for a release date.

@329, see 319 about if the game is paid. Your question has already been answered. And the rest of your questions are all answerable by playing the demo. If enemies did not have artificial intelligence, they wouldn't be enemies and would just stand in one spot, obviously. The demo will show you if there will be multiple towns and villages...
As I said, I won't project a release timeframe for the game. That includes not saying whether or not I think the game will be out by the 25th of September. But I encourage you to play the demo again and dig as much information you can out of it... that is the whole point of a demo, after all.

@330, I actually didn't know that about Zelda, never having played any of them.But about Shadow Line, yes, that kept me coming back time after time as well. And we haven't even talked about postgame contentyet as part of the team, we want to get the main stuff ut of the way first. But again if I had to gues, I would say the main game by itself will probably take a fair amount of time if you want to 100% everything, or if you're playing through it for the first time.

Just out of interest, what is the status of the translation here?
Will the game be in English or Japanese, and how about the demo?

The only reason I've not checked this out myself, is I've still to get the Jgt addon working with NvdA, though I admit that is something I should take care of, to play shadowline if nothing else.

Oh, and sorry if this question has already been asked, I had a skim through this page but I have not read the entire 330 or so posts of this topic through .

The game will be available in both languages. The demo, however, is not translated because I didn't get asked to be part of the team until after the demo was already done. I have translated most of the menus so far, as well as good bit of NPC dialog and item management sections of the game. But I still have to translate weapon names. I am leaving the main story for last as that's still being written. Probably not what most people want to hear, but it's efficient imo to translate the story when it's finalized in case entire sections need to be rewritten. All that is solidified for the moment though has been translated.

@332, people have been making videos since the demo came out. So go ahead...

I always got the feeling that they crash landed in a world where technology wasn't advanced enough for vehicles.

It should be available (or it is already there) on their youtube channel.

@Assault freak that's cool. I'll probably wait for more translation fixes before I try the thing, but it'll be fantastic to have this to look forward to in a couple of montths.

Hi.

Yes, hype is definitly real for that game, I always find it astonishing that games from japan are surperior to most western games, curious why that is. My own thought would be that the developers form a game for them selves with ideas they want to have in the game and then release it to the public.
Don't know why that isn't the case with most audio games.

Greetings Moritz.

@343: Mostly good audio games are made by people who are playing video games a lot and they experienced things from mainstream titles so in ambitious projects they are dropping these things in to their projects. As far as I know from japanese wiki on Galabo, site the devs are playing video games on different systems.
I am, of course not saying western developers are not playing games but there must be something in it as games from Japan are most ambitions and complex I've experienced in my whole life and this is why I am trying to change everyone's minds to just try the J-audio games before giving up and saying "No, too much tools to use and translate or I just want to have a full english experience without playing something translating it"

Western developers have played mainstream games as well. That isn't the determining difference... the determining factor is that there are few developers who are willing to take years to make a game. And western games are usually coded by one person, two at most. Bokurano Daibouken 3 took years to make, and was made by two people who cooperated. Shadow Line also took years between the normal version and the updatedd full voice edition which got suported by updates for two years afterward. This game is being made by a team of 7, before including voice actors which haven't been found.

But this same quality standard can be seen in the mainstream game world as well. Look at Call of Duty and all the sports games that pump out a series entry once every year like clockwork, and get supported for a year at maximum, with focus on content and flashy fluff. Japanese games are much more simple, especially fighting games, and sweeping statements like te ones I am making need to be taken with a grain of salt. But games have years between releases, and last for a very long time.
In essence thogh, Lirin is right... Japanese developers, mainstream or audio, make games that they want to make to enjoy for themselves, as well as making it fun for the people who will buy it. Western developers think about how they will make the most sales and, in the case of triple A studios, how they can meet deadlines and development costs. This is why indie games made by westerners are sometimes more enjoyable than their big budget equivalents. And for audio games well, when one gets released every couple months from the same handful developer, you can see how much they care about quality...

And do you have any info when this game will be out?