Clannad (English) Trophy Requirements

[Aeliana]

Originally Posted by kiratachibana

Personally I don't recommend playing this just for trophies, I mean, why not enjoy the story? I've played one route on PC and it is great (saved others for PS3 version). Just enjoy the story of all the routes, then clean up the trophies afterward. There is skipping/ffw function after all.

Just because I asked a question about the trophies doesn't mean that I'm *only* interested in the trophies, does it? I can say w/ 100% confidence that I have equal, if not greater, appreciation of Clannad's characters and story than most people. I mean hell, have you noticed my avatar and signature?

[Gho-Zti]

Just a quick question: Will I be able to plat this, if I can't read or speak Japanese at all, or will it get too complicated?

[P3hmo6]

This game coming EU?

[sunnygrg]

Originally Posted by Aeliana

Jcan say w/ 100% confidence that I have equal, if not greater, appreciation of Clannad's characters and story than most people. I mean hell, have you noticed my avatar and signature?

I don't really get comments like these, what's with people saying they are the "biggest FF fan on earth" or anything similar. How do you determine the threshold that calculates your fanboyism that is over the rest of the population?

[Gho-Zti]

Originally Posted by P3hmo6

This game coming EU?

It won't. It has been out for Xbox for almost three years now and never made it over.

[Aeliana]

Originally Posted by sunnygrg

I don't really get comments like these, what's with people saying they are the "biggest FF fan on earth" or anything similar. How do you determine the threshold that calculates your fanboyism that is over the rest of the population?

I was trying to be ironic, but I responded at 3:30 AM and maybe it didn't come through as I intended. Kiratachibana basically said "You asked a question about the trophies, that must mean you don't care about the characters/story of Clannad and *only* want trophies" which is an assumption. My response was meant to be "No, that's not necessarily true, for all you know I could appreciate the characters/story even more than you do, you can't conclude anything about the reasons why I bought Clannad simply because I asked a question about the trophies."

[Emerald Emblem]

I wish Dev's would take risks with titles like this, I mean Clannad is a popular anime even outside of Japan, but then Haruhi is even more popular and none of those games made it outside of Japan either as far as I know. Makes me a very sad Panda.

[Aeliana]

It's not developers, it's Sony. They're hesitant to approve releases of visual novels outside of Japan because they're not considered "real games" in the western world.

[Shuffle]

Originally Posted by Aeliana

It's not developers, it's Sony. They're hesitant to approve releases of visual novels outside of Japan because they're not considered "real games" in the western world.

Which is quite funny since Heavy Rain is almost like a visual novel.

Plus NIS America is probably still sour that Sakura Wars V didn't do well. Though I think having them asking Idea Factory to make a Wii version of it was probably unnecessary anyways. Plus we only got Disgaea Infinite because of it being well Disgaea.

But there are visual novel games that have like say RPG gameplay, and like Toradora Portable has a platformer fighting mini-game. Though even just making decisions to alter the story can be considered gameplay in a sense.

A game is a game if it's available on a game system or even a handheld.

[Emerald Emblem]

Originally Posted by Aeliana

It's not developers, it's Sony. They're hesitant to approve releases of visual novels outside of Japan because they're not considered "real games" in the western world.

It is also developers, they are the ones who pay to make the game and the copies, so they can ultimately make a loss if it doesn't sell well, thus hesitation to make US or EU copies.