Planet Laika English translation
プラネットライカ
Cargodin and Esperknight's full English translation of Planet Laika, Enix's strange and dark 1999 Mars adventure and a sister work to Kowloon's Gate.
What's translated
The whole game is in English: the long dialogue that carries the story, menus, and the images and videos that needed editing. Cargodin kept names and terms consistent with Kowloon's Gate, which shares characters and ideas with this game. The team expects a single playthrough to take around 15 to 20 hours.
Before you play
The translators warn that the story deals with abuse and trauma in detail and leans heavily on dissociative identity disorder, sometimes in ways that feel dated, and that there is one jump scare a few hours in. Their readme lists these warnings in full.
Playing it
The patch is applied to your own copy of the Japanese disc with the patcher the team provides, following their instructions. Some emulators cannot run the game properly; the team finished it on ePSXe, DuckStation and Mednafen.
Credits
Translation by Cargodin; hacking by Esperknight; image and video editing by Mr. Nobody, with many testers and helpers credited in the readme. The project's source lives in the Eight Mansions repository.