I do love soundtracks! I was hoping for an artbook, but I guess it just wasn't in the cards for this game. Although I do have a question about the CD: will it be packed in similar to how Atlus does theirs: have it in an artsy hard paper sleeve, with a box around it? Or some other way?
I'm actually excited that it's a soundtrack, I'll be tossing it on my ipod with all of my other game music.
About the packaging, unless there have been any changes Tom was saying he thinks it will be a separate item.
Haven't seen soundtracks done as a seperate item for a while now! I think the last one I recall was from Fragile. Usually now it's boxed up like Atlus's DS games or when we found out Ys Chronicles will be boxed with the soundtrack, or Atlus sticking it on the case of the PS360 game, and adding another layer of plastic around it.
I think "first print copies" does hint to it being packed to it, somehow... I still think games dropped the seperate OST deal, because of issues with people ever even GETTING the item. I've heard of stories from people getting the game they preordered from Gamestop to find out that they didn't get the item in/ran out/etc.
Yeah, to be honest, that was just a guess on my part... and it turns out I was wrong! It will indeed be boxed in with the game, a la our first-print versions of Ys I & II Chronicles on the PSP.
I also know that you can expect the soundtrack itself (which is, BTW, quite complete -- it contains all the same tracks as the soundtrack CD packaged with the Japanese version) to have some very nice packaging. It may even be our nicest CD packaging yet...
-Tom
I have a question for wyrdwad or anyone who know about japanese goodie stuff : why we rarely have bonus dvd or drama cd in our USA / european versions or less the goodies that BACONBACONBACON people have in collector edition ( don't get wrong I'm not speaking especially about xseed but all companies who looks after localisation for rpg games )
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Anything like that has to be licensed with all the actors involved, which tends to be extraordinarily expensive for something most folks wouldn't bother listening to.Originally Posted by reyvard
THIS is awesome!! Right now, I can only afford to preorder and buy games that come with extra limited goodies, making these games priority over regular editions, which I could pick up later. Now, Solatorobo is getting my preorder in^^ I'm glad, since I was wanting to pick this up sooner than later! can't wait!
ah thanks for the answer , I actually don't knew that it could be so expensive , anyway it's not for only for ys games but thanks for ys and liberl map ( I turned she to see now estelle and joshua )!
L'union fait la force !
Loved it, now I really want this game.
In addition to what Ryos said, extras like that (drama CDs especially) would require TONS of extra translating, and most likely tons of voice-work as well (unless we were to like... create video accompaniment for the audio readings and subtitle them? But that would be pretty expensive and time-consuming too!).
In the end, it just seems smarter to focus that time, energy and money on translating and recording dialogue for new games, you know?
-Tom
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