From the interview, "When a new company is formed, there’s always this buzz of excitement. People don’t know what to expect, and they start wondering what could be and hoping for good things. That’s what’s happening with acttil. The announcement was made back in May, 2013, and we’ve only just started to hear about what could be coming from Hiroko Kanazashi, Nao Miyazawa and Jack Niida. Jenni Lada was able to catch up with Nao Miyazawa and Hiroko Kanazashi to talk about acttil’s plans for the future, as well as the company’s motivations and what they hope to accomplish."
Publisher Acttil today announced that Experience’s formerly Vita-exclusive RPG, Ray Gigant, will be making its way to Steam on August 10. In a press release announcing the game’s jump to Steam, Acttil confirmed that the PC version of Ray Gigant will feature a Japanese text option, and will receive a 40% launch discount for a week from its August 10th launch. For more details on the Steam version of Ray Gigant, be sure to check out the newly-launched Steam page.
Just a friendly heads up: the translation is a bit spotty, with pretty common grammatical errors.
That being said, I really grew to love it. The platinum trophy was fun to get, and now I plan on playing more dungeon crawlers.
Richard at PopCults.com writes "From a personal stand point, I have had the pleasure of working with Nao Miyazawa before and know that she is a professional at everything she does. Working with her over the past couple of years has been one of the best working relationships in the industry that I have had. And I know that Jack Niida and Hiroko Kanazashi are book equally professional and enjoyable people to work with."
More publishers to localize Japanese games, yeah im not complaining about that one bit.
I feel the exact same way. And having worked with these three before, I am sure they will do a killer job at making that happen.
I just want more jrpg to be localised. That all I care about and that all I want them to focus on
Maybe they can pick up some of the JRPGs that NISA and others aren't bringing to the US. There are tons of JRPGs that get passed over and one more company doing localizations is definitely a welcome sight.
Former Nippon Ichi America employees, Jack Niida, Hiroko Kanazashi, and Nao Miyazawa have formed a new localization publisher called acttil. Based in Los Angeles, California, this new company will be focused on “bringing fun, creative games and digital contents such as eBooks from around the world that will target PC, consoles, web, and mobile platforms.”
Intradasting...
I'll point out that these smaller publishers like Xseed, ATLUS, and NIS do an excellent job of bringing their games to the West (unlike some *cough*NamcoBandai*cough*Squee nix*cough* ). If this publisher gets some traction, we'll likely see even more smaller-budget games coming out, especially on handhelds.
Namco brought Ni No Kuni to us which I'm grateful for. Plus, Tales of Xillia and Project X Zone are coming soon. Namco are not terrible with localizing in my opinion.
Not great, either. Depends on what you want localized. Go tell a "Tales of..." fan that Namco Bandai is a great localizer and they'll slap you in the face.
I'm not saying they're great but they're not terrible either. I really want the "Tales of" Vita games.
Namco only recently cleaned up their act with those games and the one piece and gundam musou games . before that they kept refusing localizations and randomly chose their titles .
They still left plenty tales game in the dust among other things and musou and naruto titles aside , it take them a whole year to release a full dubbed game while refusing japanese audio to be included
Well if they're based in Los Angeles it won't need localization, it would have already been made here.
Incorrect.
XSeed, Atlus USA, NIS America, and Aksys are based in southern California (LA area) as well.
These companies bring Japanese games, they don't publish things that were "made here."
This is a good thing no matter how you slice it. There is no down side to this decision, only greater thing will happen. Bring on more localizations and faster ones! LONG LIVE NIS AMERICA!
