Jast Anime Expo 2010 panel

Princess Waltz no activation patch soon

Raidy 2 shipping.

Downhill Night 2 shipping.

Demonbane deluxe slipcase. New engine. Almost done. Summer release.

Tenkuu no Yumina licensed. Out by next AX.

Downhill Night Blaze and Escalation within a year.

Yumina! This is awesome news! I’d been hoping to see this licensed.

Tenkuu no Yumina … :!: :smiley: :!:

Oh man, I’m gonna preorder like 4 copies of this. I don’t care if it take 4 years to localize, as this was on my list to import one day, I will GLADLY wait for an official Jast translation. I want to put my preorder in NAO…to support my RPG love.

Oops. Raidy 2 shipping and Downhill Night 2 shipping were old news. I haven’'t been keeping up lately on non-major stuff.

There’s also a full transcript of the panel here.

Yumina’s probably the best ETERNAL game to license, as it seems to be a much more ‘appealing’ eroge than Nega0 (longer, significantly better art etc.). [Incidentally, ETERNAL’s latest release (June 25), Tenkoi, hasn’t been very well received at all.]

23:05:20 <bay|AX|JAST> Q: So when you release (something), there was an issue with some of the CGs, what are you going to do to make sure it doesn’t happen.
23:05:39 <bay|AX|JAST> A: that was an issue that we encounted where we had to make the choice of whether to release the game or to modify the game slightly…
23:05:44 <bay|AX|JAST> we’re happy to report that hte number of changes to demonbane
23:05:52 <bay|AX|JAST> we’re committed to announcing that in advance
23:06:04 <bay|AX|JAST> btw, the Jast BBS is great place to come and that’s our main information source
23:06:17 <bay|AX|JAST> if you aren’t on there, it’s a good place to come and there are really smart people who have input for you and other information

Isn’t that just lovely, they need to report the number of changes, not if it was change

Looks like Demonbane will be censored after all

He actually said the number of changes was zero.

Oh, good. I just about panicked for a moment. But now all is right in the eroge world again. :smiley:

He also said that “regarding whats coming after this from nitro, we don’t have a firm word on that yet… it depends on how this [Demonbane] does”. Which is not really a surprise.

Hopefully, it will do very well and will expand things quite a bit.

Well, can’t really say I’m excited about Yumina since I’ve already played it, but it will probably make for one of the best english releases so far (assuming you like the slice of life scenes, that is).

I thought they were already working on Jingai Makyou, and that we’d get a release date by now. Oh well, I don’t think that there is any possibility that Demonbane is not going to do well, so I guess it’s only a matter of time :slight_smile:

Well, when they did the yaoi titles, they announced two, then they released the two that were announced … Then no more. Later they said “well, sales were lower than we anticipated”.

I’d expect Jingai Makyou to be released no matter what - it was, after all, announced - barring spectactularly dismal sales like “we sold 34 copies of Demonbane”. But whether any new titles are done after that apparently depends on how these two do.

Also, reading between the lines, I don’t think they’ve been working on Jingai Makyou nearly as much as they’ve worked on Demonbane. There’s a website for Demonbane that’s been updated multiple times reporting good progress. On Jingai Makyou … nothing, it was announced and not a peep since. Apparently not even anything at the panel, which means it might take awhile.

(But then, if the cause for the delay on Demonbane was they had to rework the engine for Win7/Vista, that might mean Jingai Makyou can be done quicker if they can get Jingai Makyou running on the Demonbane engine.)

Score!

Ahem

This’ll be the first true H-RPG with a plot localized since Brave Soul. Not to mention it has a battle system that can stand on its own (if it’s anything like Seinarukana, the battle system even surpasses many mainstream RPGs out there). With the Eien no Aselia patch out, and a Seinarukana patch forthcoming (both games having been worked on by the same group of developers), this will definitely catch the notice of a large segment of the fan community that hadn’t seen any similar games localized to this point. With the right sales pitch, this could even catch the attention of fans of a wider audience of niche RPG fans, such as those that buy NISA, Atlus, and Aksys games. Fans that were attracted to Record of Agarest War, for example, would be prime targets. Ar Tonelico fans would be another potential target.

There’s also an expansion out for Tenkuu no Yumina that was well received. If the game does well, this would be a no-brainer. Judging by the price point (6800yen), it’s pretty close to a full game in its own right.

Eternal’s lineup: http://erogamescape.ddo.jp/~ap2/ero/tou … brand=2448
Eternal’s site: http://www.eternal-will.jp/top.html

Just a couple tidbits to add to this already extensive list. The company they mentioned having contacted when referring to large companies was in fact Alicesoft. The fact that they declined is understandable what with the majority of their games having a heavy dose of rape in them, especially their big name titles. I was rather surprised with how packed the panel was. I counted AT LEAST 400 people, and I wouldn’t have been surprised if it went up to 600.

I’ve got no problem with it, as my avatar should prove. Unfortunately with all the recent issues that the industry as a whole went through due to foreign interference, I’m not surprised that they felt that now wouldn’t be an ideal time to test the market. At least it shows that they were willing to discuss it, which may bode well for the future.

Oh sweet Yumina? I cant wait, yay

i hope jast will release the fandisk as well

Actaully, I’d like to know if PP will be releasing fandisks now that MangaGamer has done so.

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Oh. And a great game engine too.

I don’t quite get why you like that game Narg. :lol: