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Confidential File -Secret Chapters- Directory

Because the content I've translated / scanned from this book is scattered across this blog on multiple pages, I've decided to put together a directory of the content in the book so readers can more easily find what they're looking for. Please note that as I haven't translated the entire book and god knows I probably never will, the unlinked sections below are not (yet?) included on this blog. If anyone's still reading this long-neglected blog, this would be the place to request specific translations in the comments, though! Prologue Q&A For Strangers in Paradise This section primarily teaches how to play the game so it's likely I won't be translating it. Settings File Mission & Battle File Challenge File Secret 1: Story & World Study Character Profiles  View them all in one post at the link above, or individually: Jack Ash Jed Neon Sophia Astos Sarah Bikke King of Cornelia Minister Lagone Queen Jayne Mia Lufenian Darkness Manifest Tiamat Marilith
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Types of games the creators would like to make

If there were a sequel, what would you like to try doing with it?

Inoue: The story for this game was pretty flavor-oriented* so it may be nice to put in a way to talk about it properly. Not showing the story through cutscenes, but conveying it through other means; I think I'd like to try that.

Translator's note: Full disclosure--neither myself nor the native speaker I talked to about this have any idea what this actually means. Just sounds like a buzzword.

Yasuda: The Final Fantasy series has a lot of cool ninja and samurai characters like Shadow, Edge, Cayenne, and Auron; I think I'd like to make an action game where they could play an active role in an oriental* world.

Translator's note: Yasuda's exact wording. This term does not have the negative connotation in Japan that it does in some other countries, though it's not usually used to refer to things Japanese.

Kumabe: I'd like to create a sort of "Final Fantasy X Origin" action game where Jecht is the main character, and you go on Braska's pilgrimage together with Auron.

Translator's note: Though the question sounds like it's about a sequel to Stranger of Paradise, the answers are more along the lines of games they'd like to create that are in a similar vein as SoP, but not necessarily tied to it.

translated by Jai from Confidential Files - Secret Chapters -


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