Nem said:
They totally did. They even made an announcement for it saying you could now pre-order it on Amazon.com. It was November 1st they announced. But given how even Valhalla Knights 3 got delayed, i guess its a usual affair for XSEED. Maybe they did it on purpose so Ys doesnt cut on Valhalla's modest sales. |
XSeed have already explained the reason for Ys' delay. I can dig up the source if you like, but it'd be easier if you just believed me :P
tl;dr version is: The game has been fully translated for a while, but Falcom were too busy pushing Sen no Kiseki out of the door to have any time to spare programmers to put the english translation in. Now the game is released, they are pushing ahead with the translation, but it's going to be later than XSeed initially planned.