About the New Art Book!

So my copy of the art book just arrived in the mail \o/

And it is glorious -- but I think the BEST part is at the end, where they have the dev team comment on their favorite parts and what they enjoyed the most.

By far the BEST section was also the shortest -- getting insights on how backgrounds and controls are designed. I loved seeing how the new Omega room came to life from just a sketch.

Can you put more of these things in future books? Behind-the-scenes stuff is always fascinating.

Dev notes were all over the first two artbooks. I was pretty disappointed at them at the lack of specific comments in Scars, though the dev process article was nice.

Were they actually in English? I remember them saying artbooks were just in Japanese to minimize costs/work or something like that.

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Originally Posted by Kit-Kat

Were they actually in English? I remember them saying artbooks were just in Japanese to minimize costs/work or something like that.

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I have all of the artbooks released so far and the main text is always in English as far as I can remember. What isn't translated is the odd little notes or scribbles you might see on the concept art, but that's to be expected really.

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Originally Posted by Colino

I have all of the artbooks released so far and the main text is always in English as far as I can remember. What isn't translated is the odd little notes or scribbles you might see on the concept art, but that's to be expected really.

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Not quite. If you purchased Scars from a Japanese source (say, AmazonJP), the text is all in Japanese. Publishing source matters for this book unfortunately (like the lore book).

I purchased mine from the SE store and it is in Japanese and English.

I bought from Amazon JP and it has English & Japanese, however the last several pages are all in Japanese. Regardless, the minion code worked and it's still $15 cheaper AFTER shipping to order from Amazon JP than it is from SE's own store so....

I was informed by Bayohne that the pages in the back of Scars with the Japanese dev comments would be in English in the NA store (and possibly EU) store release.

https://twitter.com/ExKage/status/839981551567876096

Previous two artbooks had comments scattered throughout the pages untranslated. This one has them all in the back. Based on my exchange with Bayohne, I assume it was consolidated so we could finally read the comments.

They are indeed in English if you order from the NA store.

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Originally Posted by Stormfur

They are indeed in English if you order from the NA store.

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Awesome thanks! I ordered mine on the 9th when I had the exchange but it hasn't arrived yet so... couldn't say any real confirmation.

Wait what. New artbook? With minion? I have heard nothing about this at all anywhere. What is this and when did it come out?

It was just released recently:

https://store.na.square-enix.com/pro...rs-of-war-book

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Originally Posted by Jeykama

Not quite. If you purchased Scars from a Japanese source (say, AmazonJP), the text is all in Japanese. Publishing source matters for this book unfortunately (like the lore book).

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Obviously something you bought from Japan would be in Japanese... I was referring to the ones purchased on the SE store which is where I've got mine (except for one at Fanfest I believe). I should have specified though.

In the new artbook, you see a new design (looks like uniform/school outfit) it says its designed by Tataru and made by Rowena. Could this outfit be the one that we will receive from Tataru? I want to share the picture, but not sure if its allowed.

Its called the Scion Adventurer's Jacket

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Originally Posted by Colino

Obviously something you bought from Japan would be in Japanese... I was referring to the ones purchased on the SE store which is where I've got mine (except for one at Fanfest I believe). I should have specified though.

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Obviously? no. The first two artbooks are bilingual and identical regardless or purchase location. Scars is not. With AmazonJP usually being way cheaper than other purchase options it's fair warning if you can't read Japanese.

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Originally Posted by Jeykama

Obviously? no. The first two artbooks are bilingual and identical regardless or purchase location. Scars is not. With AmazonJP usually being way cheaper than other purchase options it's fair warning if you can't read Japanese.

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Yes, this is the point. With the last two art books, regardless of whether or not you purchased it from the SE store or Amazon.jp/amiami or whatever, the contents inside were identical bar the ISBN etc. Art of Ishgard Scars of War is -not- the same. There is the usual titles/names in English but with 6 pages of Japanese, those are translated in the NA/EU versions.

I bought mine in store. I was going to wait and not get it straight away, but then it was staring me in the face and I couldn't help myself. I can put up with the last few pages being in Japanese for the ease at which I obtained it ^.^