A Xenosaga spin-off that was surprisingly vital to the collection’ story however was thought misplaced to the outdated Japanese cell phone community it was launched on has been recovered and shared on-line. The RPG Xenosaga: Pied Piper is as soon as once more playable, with a fan translation on the best way.
“After a few years of tirelessly looking for Xenosaga Pied Piper, the day has lastly come the place it has been preserved for everybody to expertise,” wrote Vector Translations and Preservations YouTuber ValakTurtle. “That is actually a monumental second for Xeno Sequence followers because it was the one lacking sport within the collection.”
The sport was dumped by an nameless donor and made playable because of concerted preservation efforts by members of the Keitai Wiki Discord, in addition to a number of particular person customers together with one who goes by xyz and was the lead reverse engineer to get the sport off the telephone it was on. It’s at the moment nonetheless in Japanese, however ValakTurtle mentioned a translation patch is anticipated to be completed just a few months from now.
Xenosaga: Pied Piper was launched in 2004 for the Vodafone Dwell cell phone community after writer Namco requested developer Monolith Tender create a cellular spin-off of the PlayStation 2 sci-fi collection. It contains turn-based battles and a script written by collection creator Tetsuya Takahashi and designer Soraya Saga, who had beforehand partnered on the creation of the philosophy-infused mech storyline that turned Xenogears right into a PS1 cult hit.
The thematic sensibility and different parts of Xenogears have been later pulled into the Xenosaga trilogy, which Xenosaga: Pied Piper ended up serving as a prequel to. It follows police detective Jan Sauer as he tries to uncover the perpetrators behind terrorist assaults on hyperspace journey routes. Issues go off the rails from there, and ultimately arrange an vital narrative tie-in to the remainder of the trilogy, echoes of that are nonetheless current within the present Xenoblade Chronicles collection for the Nintendo Swap.
Along with the fan translation, a fan remake of Xenosaga: Pied Piper can be within the works. “It’s shaping as much as be one of the formidable and spectacular fangames the Xeno Sequence neighborhood has ever seen because of the onerous work of CycloneFox and their workforce,” wrote ValakTurtle. Within the meantime, followers can nonetheless dream that the Xenosaga trilogy itself would possibly nonetheless someday get an HD remaster assortment for the Swap 2.
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