Hi there,

and first of all, all my thanks for The Last Express (and for a bunch of great other games :D). As a french player, I played The Last Express in french when I was younger, and I think I'd like to enjoy the game again in the same language (what better way to feel young once again?). I'd like to know if there's a french version with this version of the game, or if a (preferably simple, but I'm ready to some hard stuff) way to have french language with the gog version exist !

Thanks everyone!

since the dotemu version seems to be multilingual, i don't see why this one shouldn't be.

i just wish the language-section in the game descriptions would be more reliable, what's this section good for, if it isn't accurate half of the time. c'mon gog, it can't be that difficult to show the actual languages every game has...

edit: nope, looks like the gog version is english only :(
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/surprise_release_the_last_express/post105

That sucks :-(

DotEmu version has also soundtrack included :(

I think someone mentioned that DotEmu sells the Windows version while GOG sells the DOS version. If that's true, maybe that's the reason why GOG only has the English language version.

Then again, DotEmu has very vague information on the languages, too. I tried one of their free games which was listed as supporting several languages - and it did, but only regarding subtitles. The voiceovers were all English language only. So you can't be 100% sure that they actually offer different voiceover versions just because you see several nations' flags on its sales' page. And since to my knowledge they don't have community forums over there, you can't even ask other customers about their experiences.

Btw, for anyone not familiar with the The Last Express yet (like myself): While watching a gameplay video on youtube, I noticed that the English version in a way is multi-language, too: People on the train frequently speak other languages and I read that languages known to the protagonist are subtitled while languages he's not familiar with aren't (in the video I heard the passengers speak French among each other and it was subtitled in English, while the protagonist himself spoke English). So it's a little more complicated than just pure English, pure French etc. or subtitles / no subtitles, and there are bound to be misconceptions about the game language without very precise information.

Like many others here (I assume), I'm still hesitant whether to buy the GOG or the DotEmu version because of the missing language support and the missing soundtrack in the GOG package. It would be nice to see someone with knowledge on the subject comment on the differences between the DOS and the Windows version as well as on the actual languages of the version from DotEmu.

And even better would be some official statement from GOG regarding the meaning of this sentence:

"Since lots of our users just couldn't wait until The Last Express appears in GOG's catalogue, we're releasing the game with some goodies today and we're going to add more cool extras very soon."

Is it realistic to expect the soundtrack being added? Other language versions? What are these cool extras and is the GOG team actually working on adding them? Does it pay off to wait or to trust GOG on their word that the GOG package of The Last Express will be enhanced in the future to rival that of DotEmu?

I'm sure I'm not the only one pondering over these questions ...

I too am a non-native-english and I used to own the game in spanish, several years ago. I really want to get this game again and -if possible- from GOG, but for me it's spanish or nothing.

I have nothing against english and it's usually my language of choice for any game. But the experience I want to revive is that which I had when I was younger, that is, to play the game in spanish, which really defined the game for me. (besides it was a very good job of translation and acting)

I will clarify how the game treats language for those of you who have never played it or have only played the english version:
The game has NO subtitles except for when the main character hears -or speaks- foreign language he CAN understand (french, russian, etc.). This is also the case when playing the spanish version, where all of the english lines get replaced by their spanish counterparts, and I would assume the same happens with the french version and so on, although i'm not sure what happens in that case with the many "original" french characters who would otherwise get subtitles (being a foreing language for an english speaking main character)

Now the lack of subtitles is regrettable specially for those who got the english version and can't understand the spoken lines all that well. But what's really regrettable is that this has been on GOG for a long time and the rest of the languages were never added.

This truly excellent game deserves that. Lots of budget was spent in localization and I believe it was an amazing job. It seems like those of us who played different versions remember them very fondly (not to diminish the original)

Bottom line, I doubt this will serve as a petition to GOG to add the "missing" languages which ar so requiered :P but at least it will serve as info to those very few who come here

p.s: it will have to be dotEMU for some of us

Too bad... I need french voices or at least subtitles too.

Gah, bought this game on winter sales and now I realize that I can't play it because there is no spanish language and no subtitles at all! that plainly sucks. Guess I'm going to look for the spanish version somewhere

Would be nice if somebody of the staff could really dig into the topic and try to get those multilingual packs to us.

Love the athmosphere of that game, but it´s too hard without subtitles :(

Hello. I'm diggin a very old subject, but as a french player I had the same issue and I found a patch to turn the GOG english version in a french version. It is on a french forum "planete-aventure.net/forums" (sorry I can not post a link)
at the topic "/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=8829&start=15#p243139"
at the letter "T"

I tested it and it works fine

Thanks

(merci l'ami)