5/6/2023 0 Comments Ace combat 3 charactersSpeaking with Hardcore Gaming 101 in 2012, translator Agness Kaku recalled that she worked on some translated demo scenes, but the localisation project was canned soon afterwards as Namco drastically cut the budget for the international release. Namco has never given an official explanation as to why the international release of Ace Combat 3 was so significantly cut back from the original. Shipping on a single CD, featuring no branching narrative paths and only 36 out of the 52 missions of the original game, it’s still a decent experience from a gameplay perspective - but if you have the opportunity to experience the Japanese original, which is now possible thanks to a fan translation, you should absolutely take it. The English version, meanwhile, was significantly cut back. And this was a significant part of the original 1999 Japanese release: coming on two CDs, the game featured extensive cutscenes and fully voiced dialogue sequences between missions, plus the aforementioned ability to branch off to one of five different endings. One interesting thing about Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere is that despite it being such a narrative-heavy game, Namco made a disappointing decision when they localised it for English-speaking territories back in 2000: they cut pretty much all of the narrative content. Unfolding in the near future, the game features a series of recognisable aircraft, but with a bit of futuristic “oomph” under the hood, allowing all of them to quite comfortably reach astonishingly high speeds with minimal effort, among other things. Okay, it’s a bit more complicated than that - a series of decision points throughout Ace Combat 3 allows you to reach one of five different endings - but that is at least the initial setup for things.
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