#KATAWA SHOUJO GAME THEORY PC#
Is it a start for making high quality visual novels in the West? Will the Eastern publishers localize their games thanks to this feature? Will PC visual novels like Katawa Shoujo finally come to the consoles? Those questions don't have answers yet but hopefully all of the answers will be yes. The consoles will have self-publishing feature for developers to take advantage of. Now into the good stuff for next-gen visual novels. Some of the games were worth it but others were just frustrating and disappointing that you would think why did you buy that visual novel. If you checked some indie visual novels in Xbox Live, they aren't exactly "high quality" but at least some developers had the guts to make them.
The thing is not many developers are doing the same. This game is what visual novel lovers in the West were asking for and they got it as they didn't get disappointed. One risk that turned out to be worthwhile was Four Leaf Studios (4chan) game that is called Katawa Shoujo, and indeed it was a surprise in 2012 along with The Walking Dead. If My Heart Had Wings's publisher, MoeNovel, censored every single kiss, sexual joke.you heard me, sexual joke, and more that can be related to sexual activities which doesn't leave the satisfaction of completing a route in a romantic visual novel.Įnough of me talking about Eastern developers, now onto the Western developers. If you think I am talking about censoring the erotic scenes only then you are wrong again. Publishers would censor all of the "romantic" scenes in the respective game and give it to the West uncompleted. If you have heard about If My Heart Had Wings and its.problematic launch in the West, then you know what I am going to talk about now. If you think this is frustrating, no it isn't. Even if this won't be a problem, there is a possibility that the fan project would halt and nobody who doesn't understand Japanese would have the ability to try this particular game which would disappoint people.
#KATAWA SHOUJO GAME THEORY PATCH#
Some fans would try to make a patch to translate a game but it wouldn't be official since there could be translation error and some bugs and glitches in the game itself, and it won't get any money for the developers since it would result in piracy if the patch released for PC visual novels, and that wouldn't be good for the original developers and publishers. The Eastern publishers feel that it isn't worth the risk to localize some of the masterpieces for the Western gamers to experience which frustrates the potential customers who would buy them as soon as they get officially translated and arrive to their stores. If you don't mind both of the reasons, then sadly you are still out of luck. Katawa Shoujo, a Four Leaf Studios game, has made an option to disable adult's content if you would be offended so why not just add this small feature in the localized games to avoid the criticisms? Just don't censor everything that can be essential to romance forcibly which I will talk about soon. If Quiet managed to get all of this controversy then I cannot imagine how would the developers and certain number of gamers would react to this. From some scenes of the heroine having her pantie shown until an erotic sex scene. Most of the games are rated 18+ or for adults only as they warn that there would be sexual activities in the game. The most recent example is Quiet's appearance in the upcoming Kojima's game, Metal Gear Solid V. Eastern gamers are not offended by those scenes but Western gamers will have a problem since many people criticized the use of sexuality in games. Two of the famous reasons why most of the high quality visual novels beside KEY's games are because of cultural differences and.erotic visuals. The problem is.the publishers are not localizing the games since they are afraid of the controversy and if it won't sell well there, and this is what I am going to talk about in this blog post. There are more that are critically acclaimed in Japan and the problem is that there are Western gamers who would love to play them.
Why is it famous there you ask? It is because most of visual novels have great character and plot developments like KEY's games which include Clannad, Kanon, Air, and Little Busters which luckily got translated for Western gamers to enjoy and cry. Visual novel is one of the types of video games that is extremely famous in the East.