Chaos Seed is a baffling bit of game design. After an hour long tutorial you’re dropped into one of the strangest experiences that the Super Nintendo had to offer. It makes you want to take “one more turn” like that from Civilization and for a similar reason. You’re building your own dungeon and defending it in a simulation.

This translation is as good as any that I’ve seen. The dialogue is natural and funny. Because this game’s writing has such a unique feel, I can only imagine that it’s faithful to the tone of the original script. The dialogue font is sublime. Every time I look at it I feel warm comfortable. The stats font is more rigid, I assume to accommodate the data.

I have seen 2 small indicators that this was hacked. The first is during the initial character name input. There are 4 pages of letters / symbols that can be entered for a name. The first 3 are 100% perfect, the fourth is a copy of the first page. No problem, who cares. The second is that the “done” “back” buttons etc on the text entry input screen are a bit to the side inside their oval buttons. They look really nice so for all I know this is intended. But it’s not the way it’s typically done so I thought I’d mention it.

Otherwise this appears to be an original English version. Fantastic work all around.