Blood Gear:

[BigusSchmuck]

Sounds like this game is a good candidate for a overdue fan translation.

[esteban]

Sounds like this game is a good candidate for a overdue fan translation.

I wonder if someone already looked into the feasibility of Blood Gear....

[Keith Courage]

I can honestly say that it is an awesome game even without a translation. This is my first attempt at playing an Japanese RPG. It took some patience at first but I can say it's well worth it. There are enough cinema cut scenes to give the player an idea of what is going on.

I had an thought. Maybe if it's too much work to translate all the text in an RPG game we could at least work on translating all the audio tracks together. This would help big time in a game like this and I am sure would make many other RPGs playable even without translated menus and text.

[Mathius]

I really do wish someone would fan translate it. I still get easily confused with the shop menus.

[SamIAm]

How many hours does a typical playthrough take?

[Keith Courage]

I'm still playing the game so I don't know. Since this game is an action RPG it is still fun without knowing Japanese. Learning the menus took some time but not much longer than figuring out how to play Neo Nectaris for the first time.

[termis]

It's not a terribly long one -- About 15 hours or so, give or take a few depending on how much you get lost, grind, etc. 

[BigusSchmuck]

I managed to snag a copy from Hit-Japan for $20. I plan to play it as soon as my copy comes in!

[fraggore]

just reading the review on http://www.thebrothersduomazov.com/ i am going to give it a got, with hudson soft, red and westone responsible for making it got to be worth a punt.