NIS America partnering with fan translation group The Geofront to localize The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero and Trails to Azure

It looks like NIS America is recruiting some outside talent to bring The Legend of Heroes: Trails to Azure and The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero to the west. The fan translation group The Geofront announced that they would be partnering with NIS America on the English release of these games and that their fan translations would be the basis for the official English translation releasing in 2022 and 2023.

The full statement from The Geofront is included below:

Well, here we are. Trails from Zero and Trails to Azure are being officially localized, and the Geofront has partnered with NIS America to make it happen. We reached an agreement with NIS America and, now, our text—the text you have seen in our localization patches—will serve as the basis for the official releases of the Crossbell duology. Each and every member of our team is thrilled about this opportunity because it’s the culmination of our driving motivation:

To ensure Crossbell gets the localizations it deserves so that people can experience these engaging, touching, wonderful games.

As you may have noticed, our patches for Trails from Zero and Trails to Azure are no longer available on our website. Some might be disappointed by that, but we would enthusiastically request you to support the official releases instead.

We couldn’t be more excited for what the future holds for us and for the Crossbell games. To celebrate that, we thought that we would round up some of the Geofront members (and a special guest) to talk about what this announcement means to them!

This seems to be a dream come true for these fan translators, who published unofficial English translations of these games a few years back. These unofficial releases have now been removed from their website and they encourage fans to play the official versions when they release.

If you’d like to learn more about the process of how this partnership was formed and what it means to the fan translators – feel free to check out the rest of their team statements at this link.
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