Dec 11 2008
8-4 talks game localization, core vs. casual, and Monster Hunter 3 Wii
A portion of a fascinating interview with localization group 8-4’s John Ricciardi and Hiroko Minamoto…
GS: What are you currently working on that you can talk about publicly, at this point?
JR: Well, most recently, there were a bunch of Namco Bandai projects that hit within a span of three or four months. First there was Tales of Vesperia, which had a massive script.
Then, we worked on a bunch of Soulcalibur IV — we didn’t work on the voice script part, but we did a lot of the other stuff, like the story bits inside the game and the character backgrounds and such.
We did Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World for Wii, which just came out not too long ago. And then there was the PS3 version of Eternal Sonata, which has a bit more story content than the 360 version. Ah, and we also worked on Castlevania: Judgment with [...]
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