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Oh, So That’s Why it Was Never Localized…
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 07/02/2023
In the Squaresoft Golden Age of the ‘90s, many of us in the RPG-loving community felt slighted after the rise of the Internet, when we discovered that Square actually developed and published a LOT more games than we ever knew about in the West. Many of these games have subsequently received fanslations via the ROM-hacking community, and in most cases, after experiencing the games in English via emulation, I have understood why they weren’t localized outside of Japan in their initial run. Squaresoft’s unlocalized back catalog typically runs the gamut from ‘weird’ to ‘just plain terrible,’ in spite of the fact that subsequent entries in some of these franchises have been marked improvements upon their predecessors.
When “Front Mission 3” was released for the …
