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Return to PopoloCrois: A Story of Seasons Fairytale

XSEED Games has readied a new Return to PopoloCrois: A Story of Seasons Fairytale trailer showing the game’s various features. You can view it below.

Update: Stream is over. Archive has been added!


XSEED is just now starting a new live stream featuring Return to PopoloCrois: A Story of Seasons Fairytale. Since it’s a Twitch embed with auto-play, we’ve posted it after the break. An archived version should be up eventually!

XSEED prepared new screenshots from Return to PopoloCrois: A Story of Seasons Fairytale for its second localization blog. Find them in the gallery below. And speaking of the blog, you can read it in full right here.

XSEED noted thagt that the plan is to have Popo ready around the same time as the European version. If the publisher is still sticking with its winter window, it should be ready no later than the middle/end of March.

A few months ago, XSEED teased dual audio for Return to PopoloCrois: A Story of Seasons Fairytale. This has since been confirmed via today’s European announcement for the title. When Return to PopoloCrois: A Story of Seasons Fairytale launches in the west, you’ll be able to select the original Japanese voices or English dub.

PopoloCrois: A Story of Seasons Fairytale is due out before the winter ends in North America. Europe will be getting the game sometime in Q1 as well.

Source: Marvelous PR

Update: Confirmed for a Q1 release in Europe.


Marvelous has officially announced that Return to PopoloCrois: A Story of Seasons Fairytale will be coming to Europe and Australia this year. It was speculated that this was coming towards the end of 2015 but this is the first official confirmation. No word yet on a release date but hopefully that comes soon. Check out the trailer below:

XSEED is handling Return to PopoloCrois: A Story of Seasons Fairytale in North America. In PAL regions, it looks like that responsibility will fall with Marvelous.

A rating has popped up in the Australia ratings database for Return to PopoloCrois, and Marvelous is listed as the game’s publisher. We haven’t seen an official announcement yet, but this should mean that the title will be heading to Europe and Australia next year in addition to North America.

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Return to PopoloCrois: A Story of Seasons Fairytale will likely feature dual audio, according to XSEED localization specialist Thomas Lipschultz. Players should able to choose either English or Japanese voices in the game. The news should be made final once all of the official business has been finalized.

Actually, PopoloCrois will feature three options once the paperwork is all settled. Selecting the English track is possible, but there are also two Japanese language versions that feature different actors for Pietro and Narcia.

As explained by Lipschultz:

“Currently we’re shooting for dual audio. It’s in the game already, but we don’t have all the final signatures and paperwork in yet, so we can’t officially say yes — but it’s 90% right now. I’ve been joking that it’s actually “trual” audio, since there are actually two Japanese language tracks. They’re exactly the same for most characters, but for Pietro and Narcia, they recorded two separate tracks, with two actors for each character. They went with a more classic-styled, 90’s era track for one of them, and a modern anime moé style for the other. So you get to pick which type of Japanese voice you’d prefer: something a little more in line with the classic feel of the game, or something a little more modern – or you get to choose English! Assuming we have the Japanese options in, of course, which it’s looking like we will.”

Lipschultz also commented on the English track:

“The English track is based off of the more classic style, and I think it turned out great. We can’t reveal the actors’ names or anything, but there’s a character who joins your party, the Blue Wolf, and we actually got a pretty big-name actress to bark and growl and howl for the part! It was just a fantastic process in general, and a lot of fun, and I think the voices turned out great – I’m really looking forward to hearing what people think of them when they hear them in context.”

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XSEED Games is handling the localization of Return to PopoloCrois: A Story of Seasons Fairytale. For the western release, the company decided to name one of the various cows in the game after PlatinumGames’ Hideki Kamiya. We’re not really sure how or why that happened, but XSEED apparently has some sort of story about the naming process. Maybe they’ll share it with us one day!

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Off-screen footage from Return to PopoloCrois: A Story of Seasons Fairytale’s E3 2015 build is now available for viewing. Check it out in the video below.

A short gameplay clip of Return to PopoloCrois: A Story of Seasons Fairytale has emerged on YouTube, and it’s in English. You can watch it below.


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