… Has sadly come to an end. For now.
In the aftermath of the recent unofficial announcement of an official localization of Tales of Graces, English-speaking Tales fans around the world are rejoicing. I, too, am glad. I had always welcomed the possibility of an official localization. I only wish to fill in a void; to bring the joy of Tales to fans who do not otherwise have the wherewithal to enjoy said Tales. Namco Bandai Games can count on me to willingly and gladly discontinue, on my own, any of my projects for which official localizations are being produced. In fact, I had all but promised as such when I first started out. Now Namco Bandai is bringing Tales of Graces to the West, and now it is time that I make good on that promise. I do not wish to get in the way of Namco Bandai’s official localization projects. I like to think that my endeavors increase the popularity and success of Tales in the West rather than prove a hindrance to sales, since I work only on titles that are not seeing an official localization effort. This is why I pour my Heart into my projects. Therefore, it is with no small amount of regret that I must announce that I will halt the Tales of Hearts English translation project, effective immediately. There is simply no reason to reinvent the wheel; I am sure the official Graces release will be of superb quality that is at a higher level than my own, just as previous Tales releases were.
The bad news, of course, is that you won’t get to play Kajitani-Eizan’s Patch Site’s interpretation of the game. But in this case, the good completely eclipses the bad. Because the good news is that you will see an *officially localized* version of Tales of Graces hit shelves on western shores in the coming months. Please show your support for Namco Bandai Games and the Tales series by purchasing it, and keep the Tale of Two Screens alive!
January 25, 2011 at 8:43 am | Permalink
*Has hope the tag J/K is for reals*
Tales of Hearts != Tales of Graces. WE WANT THEM ALL!
And which unofficial announcement do you mean? The puzzle-game?
January 25, 2011 at 9:29 am | Permalink
Wait, what? You’re halting the Hearts project because Graces is being localized?
January 25, 2011 at 9:32 am | Permalink
^ Is that the joke that was being played?
January 25, 2011 at 9:36 am | Permalink
Yeah, it doesn’t make much sense. Tales of Graces is being localized, so you’re stopping Tales of Hearts? In what way do these two games coincide? I’ve read your update post multiple times and don’t see how they do.
Well, it is your choice. I was really looking forward to this Tales Translation, more than any of the others. I just wish there was a more valid reason given as these two games just don’t really coincide.
January 25, 2011 at 9:38 am | Permalink
I just hope this is a cruel joke.
January 25, 2011 at 10:00 am | Permalink
Well, he has the VERY SUBTLE J/K tag, but he could be lying about that.
January 25, 2011 at 10:06 am | Permalink
Wow, this kind of joke is getting old. I even suspected it before I saw the J/K tag, and that’s saying something.
January 25, 2011 at 10:36 am | Permalink
Unless he’s lying about lying, then it wouldn’t be funny anymore.
January 25, 2011 at 10:53 am | Permalink
Srsly Guys?
Quit joking at once. It’s kind of getting lame and it’s not even funny – to most of us.
I can absolutely understand you do like joking. But there have been 5 Blogposts since August and 4 of them are jokes. Does not really make me trust this hole Project but I would just love to see ToH translated..
Absolute Zero also joked. But they mainly blogged about their work an joked a little while you mainly want to ruin our nerves and give us little information about real progress.
January 25, 2011 at 10:58 am | Permalink
Either way, this is predictable and lame..
Make an actual progress update for once. It’s really not that difficult.
January 25, 2011 at 11:38 am | Permalink
This post comes under unusual circumstances, and is absolutely true. Let me give you the back story.
A few months after we started the ‘Tales of Graces’ project, we were approached by throughhim413 and Kajitani-Eizan as local members of the Tales community. Things proceeded apace for quite some time, before we noticed something. You see, Graces is more like Hearts than Hearts is. We found that it was actually easier to translate the dialogue for Graces, then simply run a script to auto-replace the matching dialogue from the two games, replacing the names. Over 30% of the latter half of the game has been filled out in this fashion.
Given the above, we have decided between each other to halt progress on Hearts. The amount of Graces and Graces-like material it contains is too much for us to be comfortable continuing at this point. I hope you will all support Kajitani-Eizan as he looks towards other great Tales games such as Radiant Mythology 3, Tales of the Abyss 3DS (if it proves necessary) or Final Fantasy: Chocobo Tales.
January 25, 2011 at 11:57 am | Permalink
I really hope this is just a bad joke.
ToH is something i look forward since i got may hands on the demo patch (and after playing it xxx times)
would really like to see it translated….i still have a way to go till i`m able to read fluenty japanese…
January 25, 2011 at 12:12 pm | Permalink
@Tempus: still does not make sense to me, but Fine. Mind explaining the J/K Tag?
January 25, 2011 at 12:31 pm | Permalink
J/K are the initial’s of Kajitani-Eizan’s favourite author, J.K.Rowling. Ever since discovering her fine work, whenever he makes a blog post, he posts ‘J/K’ as the tag as a reminder to himself to do his best to emulate her incredible style. Kaji often waxes eloquent on the virtues of the Harry Potter series, and this ‘J/K’ tag is just another way of expressing it (and not ‘Just Kidding’ as you might have assumed).
His love for the author and series has worked his way into Hearts as well, there are over 100 hidden references or stolen quote ad verbatim from the series hidden within the text. See if you can find them all!
January 25, 2011 at 12:53 pm | Permalink
Well, i think it is a joke, in his joke post, he circled his joke sentence and also J/K to show the post was a joke. If this isn’t a joke, I would be very disappointed.
January 25, 2011 at 1:39 pm | Permalink
I love how Tempus basically says that all with a straight face.
January 25, 2011 at 2:29 pm | Permalink
@Tempus:
But how can we find the Harry Potter references in the hearts text without a release? Or are you talking about his upcoming Final Fantasy: Chocobo Tales (Hey, it’s still a tales game) translation?
January 25, 2011 at 2:46 pm | Permalink
lol Tempus. First post was confusing, second one was actually mildly funny. Good job… Beats Kaji’s joke at the very least. *sigh*
At any rate, at least it’ll be a total surprise when Kaji actually releases the completed patch. Because there’s no info as to the progress made so far, it’s impossible to have any idea as to when to expect it to be finished. Wouldn’t be surprised if he made another “Ok srsly this time I quit” post, without the J/K tag, and released the completed patch a day later, just as another joke..
January 25, 2011 at 2:55 pm | Permalink
You’re giving me very good ideas.
January 25, 2011 at 3:04 pm | Permalink
^ lol’d
I officially won’t be able to take you serously if you cancel the project now though.
Until the soul crushing truth kicks in days later.
January 25, 2011 at 3:37 pm | Permalink
Hey! The progress bar moved a little bit! Before it didn’t reach the first “s” in progress. Now it’s between the “s”s.
January 25, 2011 at 3:59 pm | Permalink
I’m starting to get discouraged by how many joke topics are in this translation blog. It makes me wonder if the whole project is a big joke. *rolleyes*
January 25, 2011 at 4:43 pm | Permalink
Okay, I will stick with you, no matter the jokes, you have my support 🙂
But were did you saw the confirmation of Tales of Graces getting localized?
January 25, 2011 at 4:46 pm | Permalink
Please stop joking around. Don’t make me hate you more.
January 25, 2011 at 7:12 pm | Permalink
You don’t exactly owe us anything at all, so.. keep doing what you’re doing I guess?
That TOG-F news is pretty swell though in either regard.
January 25, 2011 at 11:50 pm | Permalink
Screw the haters, man, your jokes are the best.
January 26, 2011 at 12:10 am | Permalink
Well true or not I’d probably only want the translation done not the voicing because about every time these games get localized I know most of the time voicing is going to be absolute crap unless they actually put some decent effort into it in at which point we don’t take it too much to heart.
January 26, 2011 at 1:53 am | Permalink
@ Kaji
lol, I was honestly kind of hoping you’d actually do that. And meh.. suddenly I don’t care about the jokes or lack of progress updates anymore. I think I’ll be able to enjoy the release of this patch more when I don’t have a constant expectation of when it’s going to be done.. if that makes sense. Will be a pleasant surprise if anything.
Anyway, looking forward to the eventual day that you complete this thing. Good luck and keep doing whatever works for you, I guess.
January 26, 2011 at 3:34 am | Permalink
Hilarious!
I couldn’t laugh at this jokepost, but Tempus’ comments are awesome… “Tales of Grace is more like Hearts than Hearts is”.
Okay =) Now I totally get the J/K Tag. But seriously, Kaji failed. I mean, there was this Christmas post and he forgot the J/K Tag. How could you! You shouldn’t be calling yourself a fan when you forget about your favourite author on Christmas. Drama! Oh and I’m disapointed because you obviously noticed Rowlings work just last August. I mean, she wrote her books years ago! Where do you live?! Behind the Moon? ;D
And I doubt Tempus is saying/writing this with a straight face… I’d rather see him rolling on the floor, not able to breath because he’s laughing extremely hard and managing to write 2 words in a minute (because it’s hard to write when you’re rolling on the floor, isn’t it)
January 26, 2011 at 7:46 am | Permalink
what about vesperia and graces projects will they continue?
January 26, 2011 at 11:26 am | Permalink
I thought it was obvious that Graces would _not_ continue? Well, the PS3 version at least since that’s what’s probably coming out.
January 26, 2011 at 12:40 pm | Permalink
Wait what? Can somebody tell me where can I get a instruction manual for this site or like a translator ? What are you people smoking lately it must be friggin toxic ^^’ ?
January 26, 2011 at 12:41 pm | Permalink
Wait what? Can somebody tell me where can I get a instruction manual for this site or like a translator ? What are you people smoking lately it must be toxic ^^’
January 26, 2011 at 2:25 pm | Permalink
@Shark
Wait, that thing moved?! Good eye.
I like how we don’t even know what it’s for either. There’s no % mark, and no telling if it’s for one game or multiple games.
January 26, 2011 at 3:16 pm | Permalink
“You see, Graces is more like Hearts than Hearts is.”
My god, you have no idea how much I smiled when I read this.
Now, relax guys. This can’t be all bad. Wash down that hate and anger with a nice cool bottle of Moaning Lescu– “Morning Rescue.” Yep.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD-_oLjmCGY
Can’t wait until Tales of Rebirth is released officially in March.
January 26, 2011 at 4:43 pm | Permalink
I don’t see how Graces would stop Hearts. o.O Graces isn’t even FOR the DS. I don’t even own a PS3 as well (although I’m sure people do and congrats to you =3 ) and I’m sure (myself included) more people were hoping for a DS version then a PS3. I like being portable and not tethered to my TV.
I.. I’m not sure if this is a joke or not. The J/K tag I believe implies it but I’m not gonna get my hopes up. I will continue to lurk and if you are continuing it well I hope you know you have one fan routing for you. =3
January 26, 2011 at 6:16 pm | Permalink
Huh….. Some sort of funky site the Namco Bandai is saying is real….something about 2.2.2011……..
Maybe Graces really is coming over….
Here. You guys make heads or tales of it. Hearts…Please don’t stop.
http://ataleoftworichards.com/
January 27, 2011 at 12:48 am | Permalink
Not specially fond of the trolling but hey, he updates the site. Some other projects have not updated in almost a year.
January 27, 2011 at 3:49 am | Permalink
Tales of Graces is getting an English release! Woohoo! I just hope it comes out on both the Wii and the PS3, so I can actually have a choice which version I want, as I have both systems and typically prefer the DualShock 3 controller over any of the Wii control schemes(Remote & nunchuck, classic controller, gamecube controller, etc)
And this post as a joke was a lot more believable than the rest of them, unlike the other joke posts, there weren’t any hints in the actual post you were joking.
Of course, this entire project could be the most epic trolling of the Tales community performed in the history of the internet(Not counting Namco-Bandai’s trolling of the community).
January 27, 2011 at 4:59 am | Permalink
But…don’t you think you have tricked us enough?
Your words sound like without any sense; you want people enjoy Tales games? Great,then let us non speaking and not understanding japanese people the chance to play it!
Really Eizan,try to be a little more serious,there are people here,much people wait your progress,begging an update,visiting your patchsite day by day; if you really want people enjoy Tales games then finish your work,because you start a work,you start a patch,don’t you?
Graces will be released in the Us,ok,we all are very happy about this,but you stop your patching work…. what’s the meaning of this ? Because?
If you really are a Tales fan,how can you trick us like this?
January 27, 2011 at 7:10 am | Permalink
Your jokes are going from bad to worse in quality, I hope the translation isn’t following the same path…
January 27, 2011 at 12:14 pm | Permalink
who ever thinks that graces-f is getting a release is a complete moron tales of game are being stopped in western regions for reasons of bankruptcy( also they are afraid of the series not selling) hence why there hasnt be a recent tales since vesperia in the western continent. so for toh to stop being tansulated is because they 1. cant be bothered no more 2. personal lifestyle got in the way or 3. law suit (lol)
January 27, 2011 at 2:02 pm | Permalink
^ For the comment above me.
It wasn’t officially announced but in Facebook, Namco Bandai gave out a puzzle for people to solve, one person solved it and it lead to a site called ” A tales of two Richards”
http://www.ataleoftworichards.com/
The image is obviously the Tales of Graces F Logo distorted, also it has been changing.
If you still don’t believe this, check this.
http://www.facebook.com/NamcoBandai
The 3rd change to the image has happened.
Now, not to be rude, but you shouldn’t call people morons if you haven’t fully checked yourself.
January 27, 2011 at 2:28 pm | Permalink
Yaldabouth. What? I can’t understand what you just said. Please type in grammatically correct English.
January 27, 2011 at 6:39 pm | Permalink
with all this stuff in tales of graces I got fed up
if he wants to stop or pause the project is in its right
just say to think of all the things you could do it instead of being busy with this game remember that they are doing this almost for free .
postscript : me too I like this saga.
January 27, 2011 at 7:46 pm | Permalink
Inb4 drama.
January 27, 2011 at 10:18 pm | Permalink
@Anonymous 7:46 pm
You mean InAfter drama.
January 28, 2011 at 5:32 am | Permalink
Yaldabouth, I wouldn’t call myself a moron. I would be more inclined to say gullible and excessively optimistic. You, however, really need to learn how to use proper grammar and spelling when typing, as your current skill with the English language is woefully inadequate. If English is your second language, type your message in your native language, then use Google Translate to translate your message, then post it here. Whatever Google Translate comes out with is guaranteed to be better than your current posts.
January 28, 2011 at 6:00 pm | Permalink
Will you shut the fuck up already?
January 28, 2011 at 6:44 pm | Permalink
What’s the point of all these joke posts? I can understand April 1st, but this is just getting stupid.