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All right, so I was scanning Etsy for game stuff in an attempt to procrastinate on a huge job that's coming due, and in searching for Kain Highwind tchotckes, I found...well, look at this.
I'm not laboring under some sort of misconception here, am I? Legend of Dragoon is widely regarded as a bad game, right? 'Cause I'm running, by complete accident, into more stuff for it than I can find for, say, Lunar, for which I am deliberately looking. Is it because it was an RPG in the genre-barren early days of the Playstation? But it's not like you see Beyond the Beyond merchandise. ...
...Wait.
......OK, I just checked; there are no Beyond the Beyond Perler sprites or anything on Etsy; part of the world still makes sense. I do see, though, that Legend of Dragoon was released a full three years after FF7 in the U.S., so my "early PS1 RPG" hypothesis doesn't hold water, either. So what's going on here? Do we just adore dragoons that much? Can our love for the class not be confined to one easily-brainwashed man?
In further adventures in slacking off on work, I discovered that the site for Spy Fiction has been taken offline. The Wayback Machine has a good part of it saved - most of the text parts, anyhow, though I think stuff that was to a degree hidden, like Dietrich's backstory, got nuked, as did most of the images. (Wayback saved the fancy Flash animation that opens the site, though, bafflingly.) The images weren't revelatory, and I managed to translate the most vital parts of the vanished material (the Dietrich saga, Michael's marvelously snippy explanation of Nick's backstory), but I would've liked to have had the original text on hand - because, I mean, that's the source material, not my ham-handed interpretations of it. Those who can read the original text deserve a chance to do so. There were also some rough character sketches that, while not spectacular, would've been nice to have had archived.
Yeah, I know, big surprise that a promo site for a PS2 game went down, but it had survived for such an unlikely period of time that I suppose I had reasoned it was never in danger of being taken offline. I should've backed it up. Dammit, dammit, dammit. (I'd ask the guy who runs Spy Fiction Translation if he saved the site, but he's been AWOL for a good long while, too.)
Also, in looking back for that first Legend of Dragoon post I made, I've discovered that I haven't been that prolific at all this year, either in writing here or in non-work translating. A lot of real-life interference.
This is depressing. Here, have a Rabite hat.
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I'm not laboring under some sort of misconception here, am I? Legend of Dragoon is widely regarded as a bad game, right? 'Cause I'm running, by complete accident, into more stuff for it than I can find for, say, Lunar, for which I am deliberately looking. Is it because it was an RPG in the genre-barren early days of the Playstation? But it's not like you see Beyond the Beyond merchandise. ...
...Wait.
......OK, I just checked; there are no Beyond the Beyond Perler sprites or anything on Etsy; part of the world still makes sense. I do see, though, that Legend of Dragoon was released a full three years after FF7 in the U.S., so my "early PS1 RPG" hypothesis doesn't hold water, either. So what's going on here? Do we just adore dragoons that much? Can our love for the class not be confined to one easily-brainwashed man?
In further adventures in slacking off on work, I discovered that the site for Spy Fiction has been taken offline. The Wayback Machine has a good part of it saved - most of the text parts, anyhow, though I think stuff that was to a degree hidden, like Dietrich's backstory, got nuked, as did most of the images. (Wayback saved the fancy Flash animation that opens the site, though, bafflingly.) The images weren't revelatory, and I managed to translate the most vital parts of the vanished material (the Dietrich saga, Michael's marvelously snippy explanation of Nick's backstory), but I would've liked to have had the original text on hand - because, I mean, that's the source material, not my ham-handed interpretations of it. Those who can read the original text deserve a chance to do so. There were also some rough character sketches that, while not spectacular, would've been nice to have had archived.
Yeah, I know, big surprise that a promo site for a PS2 game went down, but it had survived for such an unlikely period of time that I suppose I had reasoned it was never in danger of being taken offline. I should've backed it up. Dammit, dammit, dammit. (I'd ask the guy who runs Spy Fiction Translation if he saved the site, but he's been AWOL for a good long while, too.)
Also, in looking back for that first Legend of Dragoon post I made, I've discovered that I haven't been that prolific at all this year, either in writing here or in non-work translating. A lot of real-life interference.
This is depressing. Here, have a Rabite hat.
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