天下制覇

Well, mostly the end.

 Bumped this up a bit just for a little more personal pimping for the slow days.

Eternal Lovers English Patch v98 (Edit: Ugh. If you downloaded before 9/13/11 8pm PST, redownload it. I accidentally put in the wrong file and it messed up some graphical indexing)
Subtitled Movie files — Mirror (Yes, I know the movies are large. Broccoli wasn’t exactly an ace at codecs back in 2004)

Please go here for the most up to date patches.

Thank you as usual to everyone who helped. TK and P for hacking, and my one lonely little editor. EL is actually built on a very different engine and internal structure than GA and ML, so that’s been fun for all. And yet, the only changes are somewhat better graphics and the inclusion of a mode where you can very very awkwardly fly an Emblem Frame yourself. ‘Fun.’

I’ve all but mentally checked out of Eternal Lovers and Galaxy Angel in general with an extreme case of translation senioritis, so here it is. Everything’s done except for stray editing and corrections, and probably about 10% of the interface, but other than the video configurations… which aren’t even available if you’re playing it in a window like a sane person… it’s very little important, and even less so if you’ve already played the first two. Maybe if the images weren’t handled in the dumbest possible way, with 500 unorganized individual images, each color of button being on its own (and unorganized, remember), plus all the image ‘text’ being white on a blank background. Why can’t you just put this crap on a sprite sheet like sane people, Broccoli? Or just use bloody text boxes?

And no, I will not be moving on to the PS2 GAs. I like GA as a series overall, but Broccoli was definitely already starting to run out of ideas here with the recycled jealousy plots between ML’s Chitose and EL’s Lushati, not to mention that Vanilla’s entire route doesn’t make a great deal of sense and Forte’s route is… well… it’s barely even there. Even the art in the later routes looks like Broccoli was completely phoning it in. The writing problems just get worse in GA2, although I will admit that Nano-nano’s route in the first of the trilogy is quite good. And rather… dark… for the GA series in general. Besides, there are lots of other fun games out there that I really like that would never see the light of the English world otherwise. Just a shame most of them feel the need to be pornographic. Thank you, Daibanchou. I still cringe when I think about your 5,000 or so lines of nothing but terrible Japanese moaning.

Anyway, the adventure of about two and a half years is pretty much done. Whee. Remind me to never take on a trilogy of anything ever again.