Hey guys, I thought I'd post this since this is one of my favorite series of games, although I personally had nothing to do with it.
The relocalization project for Ar Tonelico 2 has reached completion and the patch is released.
This patch not only retranslates the game from Japanese with a more faithful translation. It also fixes some nasty major bugs from the original English release as well as restoring some events that were disabled. It also adds a hard mode as well. The only drawback is that the game had to be left with Japanese audio. There was no way to use the dubbed audio as it caused one of the bugs and because they didn't even bother dubbing half of the audio in the first place.
Kudos to all involved. I can't wait to play it with this new translation, while not having to deal with all these major bugs in the game. (One of which was so bad it freezes the game)
And, although Ar Tonelico 2 is by far the weakest game of the series, I still highly recommend it and the entire series.
Project Metafalica, the Ar tonelico 2 relocalization