Brandish kicks ass, pure and simple. For those who played and didn't enjoy the SNES version, give it another try here -- the PSP version literally fixes every single thing that people disliked about the original while adding a bunch of extra stuff too (like more complex boss battles, and 10 additional dungeon floors that you play through as Dela), and may very well be one of the best dungeon-crawlers I've ever played.
I'm also the translator on it, and can assure you I've gone to great pains to keep the dark, eerie atmosphere of the game wholly intact. No inserted humor, no memes, none of those things you guys have hated me for in the past (heheh) -- if there's anything weird or silly in the translation, it's because it was weird or silly in the original Japanese and has been translated accurately.
I even made some of the boss names a little less Engrishy to keep them from breaking immersion -- Crab Devil, for example, is now "Karkinos." (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karkinos)
I'm really looking forward to this one being released, as I think it may be my best translation work to date (especially given the tight character limits!). I'm pretty proud of it.
-Tom
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