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Edia's teasing their next "Telenet Revive" project with images from Tenshi no Uta, Telenet's launch-title PCESCD RPG—this was a fairly straight-ahead turn-based RPG with a vaguely Celtic theme and a lot of romantic imagery, and one of the few later-era Telenet projects that didn't feel like it was thrown together in a few weeks. Telenet ended up putting out three of these (two for PCECD, one for SFC) and the first two are particularly well-liked; many of the key leads on those two games left and formed the core of Media Vision, makers of the Wild Arms series, and I can only presume that the lesser fan enthusiasm for the SFC game is a direct result of Telenet dumping the series onto whatever b-team was still standing.

Edia polled the backers of the Telenet Shooting Collection on which series or genre they'd like to see reissued, and while their poll barely broke triple-digit votes, Tenshi no Uta ended up taking it in the end. An Earnest Evans trilogy was a very close second, and my presumption was that they'd get to that first as it'd be an easier sell overseas, but I'm glad they didn't, mostly because El Viento and Earnest Evans deserve better than Edia's going to give 'em.

(I imagine they'll endeavour to translate these games, but I can't imagine it'll be a timely process: it took over a year to translate the two Cosmic Fantasy games, and I have to wonder if the global release even broke four-digit sales... of course, loudmouth youtubers throwing around spurious accusations of AI translation can't have helped.)


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@gosokkyu

Edia's officially unveiled this new project: Tenshi no Uta Collection for Switch, coming to crowdfunding site Makuake later this year. Specifically, it'll only include the two PCECD games and not the third SFC game... are they responding to a perceived lack of demand, holding out for a future goal or simply shameless enough to try and sell it separately?


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in reply to @gosokkyu's post:

I think it's mostly the rather high digital price for what feels like a rather low effort collection that killed much of the enthusiasm for the Cosmic Fantasy collection. Limited Run won't ship until much later in the year, so anyone that cared enough to buy the physical version doesn't really have anything to discuss online yet (provided this wasn't mostly bought up by resellers anyway).