Trails in the Sky SC featured a script longer than War and Peace but with just a handful of people working on editing it for localization -- driving them almost beyond endurance.
"SC has had more twists and turns getting out the door than just about any game I’ve heard of..."
- Carpe Fulgur's Andrew Dice
Localization can be tough -- especially when the game you're working on has more text than War and Peace. In fact, it can drive people almost beyond endurance.
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC may be obscure -- but it's beloved by fans, and finally released on PC and PSP last week after years of effort to render its complicated and lengthy story from Japanese into English.
A new story on Kotaku reveals the surprising story of its localization -- and the the tremendous effort required to finish the game and get it into fans' hands.
"When I finally finished it I’d dropped ~10 percent of my body weight and was down to 99 lbs," localization editor Jessica Chavez tells Kotaku, while Andrew Dice, who worked on the game's translation until a falling out with its publisher, says he felt like he'd "fucked up" his company by getting involved with the project at all.
It's a compelling tale of the lengths some projects drive people to, and worth a read.
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