Image editing is now complete, thanks to puKKa joining our crew and doing a fantastic job over just two days (we thought he was finished the first day, but then realized we forgot to give him a ton of files).

All that remains is a few release engineering things, and that process is going more or less smoothly.

EDIT: Sorry, I was a little excited. This is for Tsukihime.

Nichigo, I need to speak with you ASAP. Email is fine.

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As a side note for everyone else, we’re considering the game script to be finished.

Would Fuyutski, Kurisuchanrin, Nandemonai, Byrnedhead, dmpk2k, EVILONE, OrganGrinder and Will (Einherjar) please contact us as soon as possible? We’d like to know how you want to be named in the English Tsukihime endcredits.

Beta Testers, get it at the usual spot.

We’re on the home stretch now.

Well, we’re pushing through and have made a lot of advances.

Beta testers get to see them with the new script (revision number 1325). Get it while it’s hot at the usual place.

We’ve fixed a lot of random errors, including typos, punctuation, and a whole mess of other stuff. The spacing has been fixed to reflect the original Japanese game, including crazy Nasu word placement all over the page in some instances.

Keep on truckin’… we’re almost there.

One of those self-explanatory titles. We have begun testing the normal playthrough of Tsukihime rather than individual scenes.

Apparently, my emails make nosedives towards many people’s inboxes… so all you beta testers, check on back in to beta trac!

Found some interesting stats about the Tsukihime translation today.

It has:

• 64366 lines of text
• 611374 words
• 3400830 characters.

This was found by doing `grep “^\`” * -h | sed s/[\@\`\\]//g – | wc`, so it includes spaces and quotation marks.

611374 words is around 1910.5 pages (assuming 320 words per page. I got this number by 32 lines * average of 10 words per line in the nearest book I found – “A Practical Handbook for the Actor”. Apparently it’s a fairly standard number, anyhow),

EDIT: Ryuusoul says 1954 is for the hardcover.

Lord of the Rings paper back (whole set) is 1210 pages (according to Ryuusoul). So if you’ve played all routes you could probably claim to have read a ‘novel’ of longer than LotR 🙂

Assuming 90gsm paper at 0.12mm per page, doublesided, it comes out to being 11.4cm thick.

There are 11012 unique words in Tsukihime. Found by doing `grep “^\`” * -h | tr ‘A-Z’ ‘a-z’ | sed -e “s/[\@\`\\]//g” -re “s/[^a-z]+/\n/g” – | sort | uniq | wc`, so it counts all variations of words, including all the “aaaaaaah”s and whatnot.

Link for word stats in alphabetical order.
Link for word stats sorted by number of times they appeared.

Interesting word counts:

• Akiha: 3552
• Shiki: 2859
• Hisui: 2199
• Kohaku: 1599
• Arcueid: 1436
• Ciel: 595

There’s probably more but I’m too lazy to look.

Keep in mind Fate/Stay Night is around three times longer than Tsukihime… Hot damn!

WE STILL NEED TO HEAR FROM YOU. CHECK YOUR EMAIL, CHECK BETA TRAC, AND GIVE ME AN UPDATE.

With proofreading as good as finished, Tsukihime Beta 2 has now entered the playtesting stage. All beta testers currently available have been notified by e-mail. Anyone who has not received this mail, please read the main trac page for details.