Member of Carpe Fulgur a localization team talks about the pressure he dealt

[Chris Stern]

So a member of the two man Carpe Fulgur team, who burst on the scene a few years back with their English translation of Recettear: A Item shop tale a quaint little indy game about running a item shop in a RPG town. Seems one of the team members suffered a near fatal breakdown while help working on the localization of the Second game in the Trails in the Sky sub-series(Tits is a three game sub series of Falcom's Legend of Heroes series which itself was a spin off series of their Dragon Slayer series starting with Dragon Slayer 6: Legend of Heroes) it's a pretty intresting read about the stress and pressure alot of these guys deal with, made even worse through the constant whining of gamers. You know the whole "OMG, why isn't it out yet!!!111!!!" keyboard warriors who never stop to think before they type for if they did they should come to the conclusion that it was going to take a long time to translate these games especially a text heavy game such as Trails in the sky and it's sequel Second Chapter. Of course alot of these guys work get's pissed on by the Weeboo crowd who will just whine and complain about how they can't play the games in Japanese a language they barely understand.

Eh enough ranting from me, here is the article if your interested in reading it:  http://www.carpefulgur.com/drakblog/?p=53#more-53

If you don't know what Trails in the Sky is, check out some youtube videos of it at the least since it's one of the best JRPGs I played in sometime with fantastic writing, well fleshed out characters and a well fleshed out world and the combat is pretty smooth too. The only downside is due to the vast size of the story it ended up getting split into two parts and so the first game does end on a cliffhanger, even though it's about 40 to 60 hours long, which get's wrapped up in the sequel which is even longer then the first game, the third game(which may or may not be translated depending on how well the sequel does) is more of a set up for the latter games that followed.