Star Odyssey - Official Thread

[Zebbe]

It seems like the canned US version of Blue Almanac, Star Odyssey, is the next Super Fighter Team game, L@@K:

Star Odyssey add
Star Odyssey demonstration

The soundtrack seems decent and it's an interesting theme of the game, but daaaamn. Look at these random encounters (4:38 onward):

[Suppafly]

great to know, kudos to Super Fighter Team

[Christuserloeser]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W5-eFcnRkE

[Zebbe]

I notice the lack of logos and even brand names owned by Sega ("Gen" and "MD" instead of "Genesis" and "Mega Drive"). This wasn't the case with LoW and BP. Perhaps SFT had a call from Sega's lawyers... or perhaps they are just playing it more on the safe side nowadays. Or something else.

[synbiosfan]

The soundtrack seems decent and it's an interesting theme of the game, but daaaamn. Look at these random encounters (4:38 onward):

I'm actually quite pleased to here you say that

Too many random encounters has effected my feelings about a few games.

[Christuserloeser]

I am amazed not only to see a Japanese Mega Drive game localized but also to see it using the original cover artwork!

But yeah, no mention of "Mega Drive" or "Genesis". Maybe because it's only an ad to present at the show ? or maybe Hot-B / Starfish demanded it. Or it's like you said and they are just more careful now.

[The Coop]

If this is for real, then I declare it to be awesome. I wanted that game back when it was bring advertised in Mega Play/EGM/whatever magazine it was, then it vanished. To finally get to play it, in English, would be great.

[NeoVamp]

I wonder if Superfighter's licensing of th game is the "thing that came up"".

I really hope they can fix the random encounter thing though,
I just can't play games that consist of 95% grinding.

[Bramsworth]

So I'm assuming this is what happened to the game when drx had gotten that translation in his proto release a couple years back, but said he couldn't release it for reasons he didn't want to get into.

[Furnessly]

Even though I'm not into RPGs, I do wonder whether Super Fighter Team will base the translation on the unreleased Blue Almanac version or do a different translation that is possibly more faithful than what could have been.

I'm not sure how involved they are with Hot-B/Starfish whether they would fix up the problems or something but to get permission from a Japanese company to translate an old game must be pretty big.

[ReBirFh]

Blue Almanac (Star Odyssey) manual scan

[Smii]

Looks sort of interesting. I'm only a little surprised though.

OT, but why hasn't SFT hasn't released Magic Bubble yet, as they've owned the rights for some time? Great game, I'm sure people would want it, and I wouldn't think there's too much they could do with it (it's all in English, several different types of game mode, etc). Just curious.

[synapse]

Uh... I don't really like the look of this game... Both gameplay and graphics look quite dated. But anyway, is it really that interesting? I mean, an officially released game that gets translated and... that's pretty much it? Don't get me wrong, I'm always glad to see "new" MD releases but... isn't this the kind of thing that would (usually) get a free download as a rom patch?

[Christuserloeser]

I mean, an officially released game that gets translated and... that's pretty much it?

Um, no:
You can buy it and put it in your shelf along with the rest of your collection.
And you can play it on real hardware without the need of a flash cart.
And it might have some improvements that the average fan translation would not have had.
And it comes with a manual.
And you don't need to pay someone a lot of money for a repro with amateurish cover artwork and inkjet printed insert.
And it might help to bring over more of the Japanese games that were left behind back in the Mega Drive's heyday.

[Jesse813]

Um, no:
You can buy it and put it in your shelf along with the rest of your collection.
And you can play it on real hardware without the need of a flash cart.
And it might have some improvements that the average fan translation would not have had.
And it comes with a manual.
And you don't need to pay someone a lot of money for a repro with amateurish cover artwork and inkjet printed insert.
And it might help to bring over more of the Japanese games that were left behind back in the Mega Drive's heyday.

I Agree now If only I could give you more rep.