Can you take me through the differences in what you were doing? USgamer: Before we get to the game, can you explain your individual roles? Alex is listed in the credits of the game as the translator, but the manual leaves you him out and lists Rich and Brian Bell as editors. (Note: Answers have been edited for clarity and remove redundancies) The People Who Brought Vagrant Story to Life Smith over email on their breakthrough early work in the field and to reflect on the rise of localization as a craft that truly mattered. I recently had the opportunity to interview localization editor Richard Amtower and famous translator Alexander O. A taut, lean story of dark medieval intrigue and magic, it was a game with a depth of language still uncommonly used to this day. Released that May in North America, Vagrant Story was a significant step forward for English localization. The beginning of the new millennium, though, was going to change all of that. Subsequent translations were exponentially better, of course but though they were certainly Square's breadwinner, they weren't their only property. But for everything that made Final Fantasy VII forward thinking, it would also put a period at the end of a long-standing problem with not only Square, but most other Japanese developers and publishers: its translation.Īs a company that released very long and equally verbose games, this was a problem needed to be addressed, and quickly. An unqualified smash, it's practically useless to go over the details yet again of a game that's so widely remembered and endearingly adored all these years later. Just three short years earlier, the developer had finally broken American audiences of their widespread RPG ambivalence with the release of Final Fantasy VII. Things were looking pretty good for SquareSoft in 2000. Some content, such as this article, has been migrated to VG247 for posterity after USgamer's closure - but it has not been edited or further vetted by the VG247 team. ![]() This article first appeared on USgamer, a partner publication of VG247.
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