So a bit of awesomeness. NIS is porting over the insanely cool original Japanese AT2 website into English rather than trying to develop their own

Ar tonelico 2: Melody of Metafalica

Sweet!

Any news on Mana Khemia 2? Will they pick that one up as well?

Well I was hearing information about NIS releasing something in January so I was getting hopeful. Turns out all they did was push back the released date of AT2 and the main reason for this is because while not quite going open platform in America like they are in Europe, Sony is cutting licensing fees of games on the PS2 by 75% starting the first of next year. I think that is a hopeful indication that they'll scoop up Mana Khemia 2 eventually.

Thread Necromancy.

My copy came in today, so I've had a little bit of time to play it. Game is fun, I know a bit more about the combat system now that I can read the info it gives you, and it's like they're not even trying to guise innuendo stuff anymore. Hilarious and awesome.

Both voice tracks are gimped, though; they cut the amount of voices from the game for the english dubbing, and also cut them from the japanese track. Space concerns? I dunno. The english dub isn't too great so far, but I'll give it a little longer before I jump ship.

Thread Necromancy indeed. Mine just came in today as well, though I have yet to pick it up from my mail room yet. Either way, might pop it in for a spin before I return back to finishing the first Ar Tonelico.

Speaking of which, did you get the Rosenqueen preorder bundle, Taco?

Wow NISA. You are getting really sloppy. How could you not catch a small string of text Japanese that comes up commonly? I don't think they playtested this shit at all.

クローシェ様～!!

**CASTS "REVIVE" ON THREAD**
I liked the game but a bloody bug on it prevents to get a few extras (not that desirable) since the game locks up on a special attack made by the pre-final boss.

The bonuses included in the preorder or the US releases are neat and worth every penny. But still it bugs me that NISA went a little too far on sloopines by letting some stuff untranslated and the lags are horrible (the japanese version didn't had too many of that).

Overall the game is good. Woth a second playtrough, only if you want to get all the endings.

I picked up the game about a week ago... I can't say that I love it, but it seems like a nice sequel. But, man... I don't know if I missed it during the first game, but the second game seems to have more localization issues (bad grammar and whatnot). I haven't run into anything too bad yet, though (I'm in Phase 2).