Posts tagged Hirameki International
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First Impressions: Piece of Wonder
January 22nd, 2007, by in VisualNews
While initially reporting on the release of Piece of Wonder as download software someone reported to me that the downloadable version of the game as doubled up as a “time-based” trial. Having known about Piece of Wonder for quite a while and being amused by “battling polygons”, I was eager to give the game a shot. I immediately started downloading it from CNet when I found out… and god is CNet slow >.>;;. Maybe I’m just too spoiled by VisualNew’s release server these days >.>;;. While waiting, I decided to pull up Erogamescape and check out how the Japanese had rated PoW. When I arrived, I was dismally disappointed to learn that PoW had a rating of 50 on EGS. Nevertheless, considering there was only one review, I decided not to take that into account and finished my download. I was also kinda curious what this “time-based” trial thing was.The game finished downloading after forever, and I installed it. While watching the installer, I noticed something kinda of funny. All the installer was doing was moving the files in the installer directory to whatever directory you designated. It makes me wonder why Hirameki didn’t just bundle everything into one install file to make the downloadable a bit cleaner. I started the game up and I was present with a screen with a couple options, one to purchase the game, one for something (I can’t remember of the top of my head), and another just to play. I hit the just play button which prompted me to fill a bunch of personal information like where I lived, email, and all that stuff. Given that it was already midnight, I needed to go to work in a few hours, and wanted to get this quickly over, I just filled it in without much thought. Afterwards a message popped up to me essentially saying this: “You’ve got 45 minutes to play this game, then after that, its bai bai time sucker~ =P”. I glanced at the clock, calculated how many hours I would get to sleep if I played this, and decided “Fuck it, I’m curious enough I’ll stay up another 45 minutes!”, and I am so glad I did! And thus my journey with Piece of Wonder began.
Original post by Misuzu, migrated from VisualNews
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AMN Hirameki Interview
August 7th, 2006, by in Translation, VisualNews
Our friends at Advanced Media Networks have posted their Hirameki Interview from AX 2006. If you get the chance, it’s quite an interesting read.
Original post by Misuzu, migrated from VisualNews
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HIRAMEKI International Shipping
July 19th, 2006, by in VisualNews
As we reported about HIRAMEKI’s 20% off deal back in April, it was stated that their webshop AkibaOtaku does not ship items internationally. It has come to our attention that since approximately a month ago, they do accept international orders. It requires that you accompany your order with an e-mail containing your shipping address, AkibaOtaku will then reply with the actual shipping costs.
We would also like to point out that this summer AkibaOtaku is giving away a free copy of Hourglass of Summer, Phantom of Inferno, Tea Society of a Witch or EXODUS Guilty Vol.1 when you order one of their titles, such as EVER 17.
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Fanime 2006 Report
May 26th, 2006, by in Conventions, VisualNews
I’ve had the pleasure to talk to some folks over at RJP Pro and Hirameki about their products. RJP Pro reports that the game part of their Tenbatsu! Angel Rabbie title is done as is the subbing and dubbing of the anime. Only thing left is authoring the DVD with better menus, replication and distribution.
On the Hirameki front, they presented a panel on a brief overview of visual novel games and also showed some opening movies of some of their titles. They also announced a new title, Piece of Wonder, which is a doujin title from Studio Cross-Fire. Two more titles are in the pipeline and they are in negotiations for a third.
Read the full story for more details and hints on what the third
game from Hirameki may be…Original post by zalas, migrated from VisualNews
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All hail the spirit dragon who didn’t eat up Shirou!
April 17th, 2006, by in Translation, VisualNews
Ryuusoul from mirror moon has completed his rewrite and proof of the Tsukihime script. A closed beta will follow.
Updates:
insani felt it fit to grace us with yet another poem. The plot thickens…
heklin says that he is now around 30% done translation checking the script for Shuffle. After that, it’ll go to KnKF for final editing and then to QC.
Aoyama-san of Hirameki International, a company that localizes visual novel style games for the English audience, was wondering about the fan translation process and started a thread for this purpose. You can read what some of the visual novel translation community’s translators have said on the matter.
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