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Anyone ever seen this?

Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 7:59 am
by Missing

Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 9:47 am
by Artemio
It is the design of the supposed to be english release that never was. I had seen it a couple of times.

Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 5:13 am
by Snake700
I wish it was real

Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 6:42 am
by Missing
So that design was official then, and not some fanboy's imagination? They might've gotten pretty far along in the translation if they already had a planned boxart design, don't you think?

Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 9:38 am
by Marc
The whole thing is kind of a mystery. You have that piece of art (which was shown in EB flyers, too), and you have the announcement to show the game at E3 '96, but then in August '96 in an interview in Japan Kojima said they had several discussions about localizing the game but weren't able to for technical reasons. So I think the box art was maybe to get publicity going while they still tried to work out the localization, but then they quietly stopped talking about it when they decided not to localize it.

There have been no pieces of evidence to support the "X% complete" translation rumors. In fact, the number seems to change all the time. Sometimes it's 75%, then 80%, then 90%... I don't think they ever actually started to translate the text, they just started to get some early publicity going while they still thought the game was going to go ahead.