mqstout: Shame. Azure's DRMed and also requires nebulous anon mega downloads. Hopefully GOG's contact with the devs can get them to consider a release here, even if it's just Japanese for fan patches.
The Geofront team said that their patch will be removing the DRM from Azure.
As for waiting for fan patches to become co-opted by a publisher and then officially released: chances are that will never happen.
People in the know say that there are way too many legal quagmires associated with that, such as, the publisher would need legal permission to use them from every single person who ever worked on the translations in any way, many of whom would either say no, and/or whom are uncontactable at this point in time (since the fan translations started many years ago...and even the Geofront versions are iterations of the earlier versions, and hence would still need permission from everyone who ever contributed anything to them).
There's a very high chance that the Crossbell games will
never get officially released English, for the reason I just mentioned, as well as numerous other reasons as well.
Waiting for the day that they will, that could easily result in waiting forever, and still not getting them.
By the way, in addition to all that, the Chinese/Korean versions of Zero and Azure that are on Steam are also much worse than the original versions that Geofront's patches are applied to.
Rather than do it themselves (like they should have done), Falcom hired a third party company to port those games to PS4, and that company did a horrible job with them. And the versions on Steam are merely a re-porting of those horrible ports.
And those bad ports also used the PSP console versions as their source, therefore in addition to having missing textures, graphical glitches, incorrect textures placed in the wrong spots within the games' world (i.e. brick wall textures placed on cliffsides, etc.), all of which is so only because the original porting company did really sloppy work, the graphics also are much worse in those new versions than they are in the Geofront versions.
So the the point being, even if those "remastered" (which is a very inaccurate & misleading) label for them) versions of the Crossbell games were to be released in English, then they'd still be far inferior to the Geofront versions anyway.
