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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...

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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