the Ultimania translations from Dark Horse

[taichara]

Has anyone been picking these up?

I had the second one (VII/VIII/IX) arrive today, and it has a few nice bits here and there that it's nice to have an official English take on. And of course pages after pages of character/critter/location designs (my precious), which are a maaaaajor draw for me.

By and large I enjoyed the first more than the second, though, which is probably partly because of my game preferences but also because there was more early stage or unused or just development notes stuff in it -- especially for II, which practically has one and a half entire other game plots outlined in there, whoo boy ~!

So, yeah, anyone else enjoying these? Or is there something someone might wind checked for, if you don't have them/aren't getting them?

Comments

[wallwalker]

I'm so behind the times. I did not know about this, but I'm going to have to take a look at them when I have money. There's a lot I'd want to check for, so I'll have to see about making a list. :)

[taichara]

Yen On (Yen Press) is also tackling FF prose material --

The Compilation story story collection On The Way To A Smile is already out, the Turks novel is next month, and iirc the XIII prose works are some time in the spring.

I have Thoughts on the short stories. most of them involve me snickering. lol.

[larissa]

!!! I had no idea they were going to be putting out the FFXIII books!! This makes me super happy, now I don't have to go digging through all the fan translations anymore. (I say that, but this just means I'm gonna end up comparing them........)