Another post, another few months gone by. Sorry for the delay!
The woes of being a lover of Japanese games in this day and age are often staggering. With less and less of interest to me coming out of Western companies, these are the games I'm counting on to fill the void. Sadly, rather than responding accordingly to the emergence of a global economy and Information Age, Japanese developers seem to be losing touch with their Western fans via an unwillingness to even localize some of their most fascinating and unique games. Recently, we've seen the effects with social networking movements such as Operation Rainfall, the Gallian Liberation Front, and a handful of fan pages devoted to various Tales games.
The woes of being a lover of Japanese games in this day and age are often staggering. With less and less of interest to me coming out of Western companies, these are the games I'm counting on to fill the void. Sadly, rather than responding accordingly to the emergence of a global economy and Information Age, Japanese developers seem to be losing touch with their Western fans via an unwillingness to even localize some of their most fascinating and unique games. Recently, we've seen the effects with social networking movements such as Operation Rainfall, the Gallian Liberation Front, and a handful of fan pages devoted to various Tales games.
The situation isn't entirely bleak. Japanese developers have many interesting things to offer Western fans this year so far*. These include Xenoblade Chronicles, The Last Story, Tales of Graces f, Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward, Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir, Pokémon Conquest, and Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch. With all that on its way, it may be hard to see what J-game lovers still have to complain about. So without further ado, here are the rest of the games I'd love to see localized in 2012.
