X is an incredibly underrated and technically impressive game that usually gets overlooked due to the lack of a good translation… until now.

It took years, but the game finally got a mostly complete translation, and people would have finally got to experience the game in full english. Unfortunately, the timing of this was incredibly poor; on the same day this was posted, the official translation of the game, Lunar Chase, got leaked. This doesn’t completely obsolete this translation, though. There were some interesting details in the script that were different between the two: for example, the tank that the player controls is refered to its name, VIXIV, in the Japanese version, while Lunar Chase opts to omit it. On top of that, the game takes place in 8191 in the Japanese release versus 2096 in the English. I’d expect more of those minor differences later in the game.

Either way, it’s a shame that Lunar Chase will likely overshadow this, but it’s a solid effort nonetheless and provides another way to experience the game.