So I’ve wanted to do a weekly livestream for translations for a long time and I’m being an idiot and diving in the deep end with a game that honestly has some pretty difficult Japanese in it!
This is Wizardry Alternative NEO - BUSIN 0. It’s the followup game to BUSIN, which was localized in the west as Wizardry - Tale of the Forsaken Land by ATLUS. Despite the title screen credits, it’s actually made by our friends at Racjin, who most people will know best for Bomberman 64, but have done a pretty wide spread of games.
I plan on doing a live translation stream every wednesday night, probably starting around 6:30~7:00 PST. I picked Wednesdays because I’m least likely to be consumed by something else at that time, like watching certain other streams I’m a fan of.
I’ve already cleared this game, as you can see from the Bread Party above. I’m starting fresh from a new save, but might screw around in postgame with this bunch some more.
So!
I want y’all to supply me some characters for the new party!
All portraits are male on the left, female on the right. Yes, especially the dwarves.
There are no other portraits for custom characters, sorry! But I’m totally up for using some of the NPCs if people want.
I am doing an evil-aligned party because what kind of nerd runs a good party in Wizardry?
RULES:
- I get final call on the party composition so I don’t get something completely useless.
- Humans and dwarves in the front, everyone else in the back.
- Seven character limit. You may use English characters or Japanese ones, I kind of don’t really care. (edit: Symbols are okay, apparently roman numerals can be used and they only take up one character slot!)
- I may reroll characters a couple times because of a particularly painful decision the developers made, but that’s really just Wizardry tradition.
- You can request the same portrait more than once. I don’t get to see it much throughout the game anyway; it only shows at the guild anyway.
Races:
- Humans - Overall middle of the road. Low wisdom means they make lousy priests. Good samurai.
- Dwarves - High strength, wisdom, vitality. Low intelligence and speed. Good priests, good tanks.
- Elves - High wisdom and intelligence. Lousy strength and vitality. Great mages. Made of paper.
- Gnomes - Highest wisdom, high speed. Low strength. Great back-row priests.
- Hobbits - Highest speed and luck. Low strength. Destined to be thieves.
Only classes available at the beginning are fighters, thieves, mages, and priests.
I wanna say that thieves are 100% optional in this game treasure chests don’t work the same way as classic Wizardry. But if you want one, hey!
I am probably going to regret this but I want people to hold it to me if I miss these streams. I have slacked off on these enough! (Though if Net Neutrality getting nuked makes it so I can’t stream anymore uhhh I’m sorry guys!)