Berwick Saga English translation
ティアリングサーガシリーズ ベルウィックサーガ · Tear Ring Saga Series: Berwick Saga · Berwick Saga: Lazberia Chronicle Chapter 174
A complete English translation of Shouzou Kaga's Japan-only PS2 tactics game, covering every line of story, menu and on-screen graphic text.
What's translated
Everything: the story conversations, narration, menus, system messages and the images with text in them. The game is long, with around forty missions spread over fifteen chapters and roughly sixty hours of play, so this was a multi-year project. The translator, Aethin, came to it after reworking the TearRing Saga translation and chose the names afresh from the Japanese rather than relying on older fan spellings. The English is American.
How it was made
Work began in early 2017, once the programmer Lightgazer rebuilt the tools from an earlier Chinese fan translation so the English text could be inserted. Chapters were released in stages, the full release candidate arrived in February 2020, and version 2.3 followed in January 2021. Aethin also shared the translated script and a spreadsheet mapping it, for anyone who wants to study or build on it.
Playing it
The patch is applied to your own copy of the standard Japanese release (it was not tested on the Premium Box or the budget reissue), following the instructions on the creator's official thread. It runs on a modded PS2 or in an emulator. Remember that, as in most Japanese games, circle confirms and cross cancels; square shows the controls for the current screen.
Translation by Aethin, programming by Lightgazer, with a large group of playtesters.