Yesterday, Pandora's Tower publisher XSEED Games announced that it had acquired Atlus Online from Index Digital Media, integrating both companies under the common banner of Marvelous USA. Siliconera reached out to XSEED boss Ken Berry following the reveal to inquire if the move might lead to more Marvelous titles coming overseas.
“We are definitely interested in pushing the ‘Marvelous’ brand as much as possible," Berry said. But whether that interest will coalesce into a western release for Tamsoft's Senran Kagura series sounds dubious.
“It is something that we continue to look into because we know the demand is there as lots of fans have asked us about it,” Berry shared. “But it’s just such a scary proposition due to the subject matter and difference in attitudes between Japanese culture and the more conservative culture here in the U.S.”
There's one glimmer of hope though. Despite saying a physical release has "the potential for disaster," Berry entertained the possibilit...
During GDC 2017, DualShockers had the opportunity to sit with XSEED's Executive VP Ken Berry and ask about the the benefits of the digital shelves of PC.
SENRAN KAGURA SHINOVI VERSUS is a ported game fron the PS Vita. However comes with hefty requirements. For optimal experience a top of the class modern i5 CPU is required or the AMD FX equivalent with a gtx 760 or a Radeon HD 7950 GPU.
A lot of people who own a console or PC can´t get the thoughts of Japanese games out of their heads. And who can blame them? As we miss out on a lot of games. And Especially those of lewd nature. So these are my (Norman, TGG) thoughts on the matter.
Well, as for the West...Both "Criminal Girls 2" and "Valkyrie Drive" got banned in Germany and Australia...
It´s not much better in South Korea either, as the whole country has gone full SJW mode.
Yes...But I´m somewhat worried that this SJW cancer will spread all over the Western civilization. In other words, that the West will become like Germany -_-
Now that I think about it, it would be really interesting to know how much German and Australian gamers spend on game imports? Furthermore, how many games they import per year? Quite a lot I bet.
I think that´s correct, as "Criminal Girls 2" and "Valkyrie Drive" won´t be released there.
That would be correct, and that´s also why a lot of games in the West gets either banned or censored on release.
Some Australian friends of mine have to import games via New Zealand most of the time to avoid crap like that...
I think Germany is the worst country in the whole world when it comes to censorship in video games. Hell, they even ban tons of games as well :S
Didn´t a lot of Australian Gamers go over to New Zealand just so that they could buy GTA5?
@DragonDDark
"Yup. Country SJW rules"
No wonder why more and more people are buying games from Japan instead...
Ugh, this kinda stuff is why I hate living in America at times... It's a game, there shouldn't BE any question as to how it conflicts with a certain culture. It's fictional, who the hell cares? Idiots that have nothing better to do than complain...
It's not just for this game, a lot of games over in Japan in general that we miss out on because of stuff like this.
Lets see if they do it.. I would love to see what happens if this game ends up on the NA eshop lol.. DO IT!
What's so good about this game? (other than the boobs)
Seems weird title for localization? How popular is this one stateside?
Vita version would be day 1 for me