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Someone had too much time in his hands. He scanned the 300+ pages of Xenogears Perfect Works!

Posted by Hanzie on Apr 17th, 2009 digg this super bookmark


Someone had too much time in his hands. He scanned 300+ pages of Xenogears Perfect Works!

Someone wrote:
My scanlation of the Xenogears Perfect Works. It took around 4 months of work here and there and at last it's done! I was inspired to teach myself to read japanese mostly because of this book. Then, of course there is a huge amount of anime out there they haven't brought here . . .

Some things sound very awkward, but I went in favor of a literal translation to keep the information intact, so bear with it, it's all here to within 95% accuracy, it just sounds funny.

The most difficult part was translating words the creators invented for science that doesn't exist. I had to wing it, and hopefully the gist of it comes across. This is a fan work, and for the fans who finally can read the book. 10 years ago, the game came out, and people have been awed ever since then by the depth of the story. Many are still talking about the finer points of the plot today, and most wish for a redo for the game itself. As the Perfect Works makes clear, the game was incomplete, even the creators admit as much in the book. And a sequel is very needed to do the overarching story justice. But it's been 10 years, and the likelihood of that is remote.

So, enjoy the Xenogears Perfect Works. Amazing effort on their part for a video game. That's what sticks in my mind the most.



Enjoy!

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lazylegionspark
lazylegionspark Apr 17 2009, 10:21pm says:

(Meep)0-0! 300+ pages to translate, scan,etc is a heck of a lot of work.
I completly approve of this thing :|b

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Smoth
Smoth Apr 20 2009, 1:00pm says:

HOT!

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Vermillion
Vermillion Nov 23 2009, 11:35am says:

Very nice

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