Today (May 26) is Ys 4 New Theory's 21st anniversary!
I don't have anything to show for it because we going full steam ahead into Ys 3 PS2!
Here are some WIP pictures of the initial VWF, graphics, and translation working!
Big thanks to Everdred, Etokapa, and Josep for their quick work!
youtu.be/Qn-xVEDIr4Y
(It feels a bit weird to call it a "remake" despite technically being one, because it reuses a lot of maps and assets from the PC-98 version, lol. Over 95% of the town and scene maps in particular look identical to those of the original release, just slightly touched up.)
But it's especially egregious when you deliberately omit the PC-98 game to use the Windows version for this, which takes the original design, story and setting and thoroughly bastardizes them under the pretense of a trainee program for the newer staff who went on to make Kiseki.
Everyone who calls ED4 "beta/proto Kiseki” deserves nothing good in life because if you had even basic comprehension, you'd realize that reductionist and misrepresentative label ignores that it stands on its own and has unique things to say that Kiseki doesn't.
Happy 30th anniversary to The Legend of Heroes IV.
Here is a glimpse of what I have been cooking up.
Addendum regarding the translated title in the inserted logo: This choice for 朱紅い雫 is not random and has a very deliberate meaning. The goal is to better convey the original meaning while setting it apart from the Windows version (as its own entity). Here's an explanation:
