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Late to Localization - Vidjagame Apocalypse 364

Vidjagame Apocalypse

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4.8930 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2020

⏱️ 168 minutes

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Summary

In this age of games arriving rapidly from Japan, it's easy to forget that localization used to take a long time - sometimes years. This week, Micah Seff of Perfect World joins us to take a look at games that took a decade or more to reach Western shores, after which we'll touch on Trials of Mana, Animal Crossing smashing sales records, and whether you prefer remakes or remasters.

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0:00.0

If you're Oh, Hey everybody and welcome to episode 364 of Vigigame Apocalypse. I'm your host Michael Rapparas. Who else is joining me here in the mystical

0:37.2

magical Jeffrey Watkins Memorial Studio of the Airwaves?

0:41.7

Ah, thanks to Jeffrey Watkins of Patreon.

0:44.0

Comptroller-Stieston.

0:47.0

And Seven Minute Eabs, Matthew Allen.

0:52.0

And special guest, Mike As Seth, and I'm going to hope that we don't have a Red Dead Redemption

0:57.0

to a clip to play this time?

0:59.0

We don't because I was not thinking ahead.

1:02.0

Exactly. I was counting on that. Next time, Michael! God damn it, Michael.

1:10.0

But yeah, thank you for joining us and obviously you're a friend of the show, but where might people recognize you from?

1:16.0

Well, if they are fans of the show, then I've been here a few times, but

1:20.9

uh, most recently I work over at Perfect World on several different games, but...

1:27.0

Like Remnant?

1:29.0

Like Remnant from the Ashes?

1:32.0

Yeah.

1:33.7

Torch Light 3 that's coming soon.

1:35.4

Magic Legends also coming soon.

1:37.0

So lots of cool stuff going on over there.

1:39.4

But before that, I was over at Game Explain if people are familiar with them and going way back I worked at Igen but that's that's ancient history

1:50.0

That's a lifetime ago. Yeah, that's a hashtag me a 20 kind of thing. Mike I hear people I hear people are a little

1:56.8

excited about magic legends. I want you to plug plug that game because I was working on that for a

2:01.7

while there. I was so proud when that trailer debuted during the the game awards in December.

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