Tales of Hearts R localization confirmed (Winter 2014)

senelcoolidge wrote:

http://www.gamestop.com/ps-vita/games/tales-of-hearts-gamestop-exclusive/114644

Is it happening?

Gamestop wrote:

GameStop Exclusive

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GameStop Exclusive

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GameStop Exclusive

I'd still buy it if so, but this is all kinds of ugh if it turned out true.

If it *is* true, my guess is that they'll be handling a limited physical release (with all kinds of shady sh** afterward with them pressing out new "used" copies for above MSRP) and it'll still be available digitally over PSN.

It would be uber lame do all that hinting and then not release TotTR, I honestly just thought they were waiting until after ToZ to announce it so that it won't become the 15th mothership of all things ;p

Wow they are really going hard with this mistake if it's more than a rumour xD

I hope it got dual audio because there's no way I'm going to listem to Kohaku and Beryl in english.

Arn wrote:

I hope it got dual audiu because there's no way I'm going to listem to Kohaku and Beryl in english.

I wouldn't bet on it - that they get the same voice actors as in Graces.

Amber's VA in Graces...wasn't the best rendition of her but I could see her doing better for a full production.

Honestly, Namco hasn't normally been terrible with VAs correlating, I'd like to see the English spin they give the characters. I'm not sure they can find someone in English to do Beryl the exact same way, but I'd like to see their try or to another spin on her.

I don't think they'll keep the Graces VAs as the official ones , they were just VAs who had already voiced other characters in game. Then again the did keep Sam Regal for Reid in RM after his cameo in Abyss, but that was still an escort title.

Arn wrote:

Tempest R will never happen, give up.

Then they shouldn't have started the whole reimagining bs then if they aren't going to finish what they started.

Once again, Namco panders to the Teiruzu fanbase. And I already know the "Namco is a business" reasoning, so don't tell me that financial reason again.

All flash, no flesh again.

Hearts's page got taken off of Gamestop's site. I doubt that this was just a random fluke though. It's probably still gonna come. Hopefully Namco announces it soon.

Its off the site btw, maybe a mistake? Well they slapped GS-exclusive on it so maybe just wrong timing. Edit: Lloydz ninja'd me and I did not notice whoopz

I really don't think its not going to happen as DreamSword said it really has -not- been that long :/ we were honestly expecting Hearts R to be much later after Innocence R anyways....

DreamSword wrote:

ShivKH wrote:

Zwei.0 wrote:

ShivKH wrote:

despite the things they removed.

They removed things?   

-Innes's friend Prena (and her cat) and her entire small, yet important, story arc for no reason. They added in scenes there but they could have kept it, it was important Cal stuff that was great but Prena (and her cat) would have fit perfectly

-A couple scenes with the Seraph brothers (Their already short arc on Quartia got even shorter)

-The desert bonding scenes between Innes/Beryl and Kunzite/Jadeite, and what could have been an opportunity for Galando to actually have...more significance or actually be an interesting character that adds something by interacting with Cal

-A really significant sidequest dude is downgraded to being a poster on the jail cell wall

-They cut the really important scene on top the hill in the foggy village that used to be a lot more impactful

-They cut a couple minor sidequest-only Spirmazes to my knowledge

A couple other small things but the first three make me -very- angry

Everything else they pretty much kept, they also added in some AMAZING scenes and dialogue and extended some scenes. They made the duel with

Spoiler:

a thing, HOWEVER they didn't do it properly. Shing was making a great point in the original scene by refusing to fight and while Cal was convincing him to fight, they timed it terribly within the scenes and lots of lines got cut :/

They condensed some other scenes too, that really didn't need to be shortened, LIKE CAL'S SPEECH BEFORE HE RUNS OFF IN THE CAPITAL AFTER SOMETHING REALLY IMPORTANT AND THE WAY HE JOINED HE COULD HAVE STILL SAID ALL THOSE THINGS :/

I must emphasize though, the gameplay is AMAZING, and the scenes, dialogue, sidequests, and everything ADDED was fantastic. Its just that it seems like they tried to summarize scenes in some places rather than flesh them out?

They also removed alot of unique attacks/spells in order to reuse assets from Innocence R, and thus making Hearts lose alot of its uniqueness.

Way to squelch the hype.

Regardless, have a Vita-owing friend who would probably be happy about this, since he finally gave Tales a shot with Abyss 3DS, and like every other Vita owner he needs a game.

DylDawg wrote:

Once again, Namco panders to the Teiruzu fanbase. And I already know the "Namco is a business" reasoning, so don't tell me that financial reason again.

All flash, no flesh again.

Jesus. Still drinking that haterade? You said yourself that haven't even played Hearts R so stop tossing around "flash vs. flesh" when all you have to go on is hearsay. And that "Namco is a business" stuff is 100% valid. You can't fault them for that.

Sorry BlazingFiddle, I really need to emphasize I did LOVE Hearts R and there is so much to be hyped about, they just asked about the removed stuff so I answered xD Hearts R is amazing, Hearts is just even more than it, it combined with the original would be the perfect game, but both versions still have the absolutely amazing feel that makes Hearts such an amazing game!

Hearts is one of the 3 Tales stories I actually like but it's glorius part is on it's battle system which did get better on the remake.

Dimentionalist wrote:

DylDawg wrote:

Once again, Namco panders to the Teiruzu fanbase. And I already know the "Namco is a business" reasoning, so don't tell me that financial reason again.

All flash, no flesh again.

Jesus. Still drinking that haterade? You said yourself that haven't even played Hearts R so stop tossing around "flash vs. flesh" when all you have to go on is hearsay. And that "Namco is a business" stuff is 100% valid. You can't fault them for that.

Well, I could play it when this thing is true, and then continue to hate/like/neutral even more after that. And the flash vs flesh thing is my own opinion and how I look at the series now, so I stand on it. If Innocence R is anything to go by since Hearts R built from it and I PLAYED IT, then I would probably prefer it to the main titles.

Sure there might be some of that "haterade" stuff going on inside me, but I feel like just because I have a negative opinion (and sometimes those opinions are false when it comes to legit info or for other people) that you keep trying to put me down and prove me wrong with my opinions, just because you don't like them.

And I know that the "Namco is a business" is a legit reason already, I just don't want someone using/reminding me of that reason again, since we all know it by now.

senelcoolidge wrote:

http://www.gamestop.com/ps-vita/games/tales-of-hearts-gamestop-exclusive/114644

Is it happening?

British Shing pls

If it does get localized, you know that the guys on the Tales facebook will just complain that it isn't Innocence R or Vesperai PS3.

They're going to complain about that even when Zestiria news starts pouring in, honestly. Its their opinion but we all know by now that their whining does not represent all of us, and I really hope Namco knows that too.

TimeFactor your sig is kind of unnerving and hypnotizing xD

Lloyzerdk wrote:

If it does get localized, you know that the guys on the Tales facebook will just complain that it isn't Innocence R or Vesperai PS3.

What else is new?

Yeeeeeah call me back once it's official or something

ShivKH wrote:

Sorry BlazingFiddle, I really need to emphasize I did LOVE Hearts R and there is so much to be hyped about,

Oh not at all.  Tales games we aren't supposed to get by any reasonable standard of the imagination is amazing.

TimeFactor wrote:

Lloyzerdk wrote:

If it does get localized, you know that the guys on the Tales facebook will just complain that it isn't Innocence R or Vesperai PS3.

What else is new?

While this has me thinking about Tales battle power deba-



Stop it, you guys.

Kongman reminds me of someone...I can't remember it clearly though

I wish I had a Vita Can I play this on PS3 or 4?

If it is indeed being localized, I wonder how long Namco will take to announce it officially. If the cat's already out of the bag, I don't see a lot point in hiding it for much longer.

Probably near the release of Xillia 2, or maybe the E3?

I doubt they'd wait that long. I recall Xillia 2's localization being announced before the first Xillia was released over here.