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PR: MangaGamer Announces Trial Version for Koihime Musou

And they conveniently forgot to mention their failure to license the game's original Japanese voices, leaving it literally speechless.

And they conveniently forgot to mention their failure to license the game's original Japanese voices, leaving it literally speechless.

Our localization of Koihime Musou has been largely funded by Nexton, the company to which BaseSon themselves belong. As such, a majority of the money earned by this game will be going directly back to them, the creators themselves. However, this means that they are also shouldering the majority of the costs associated with the release, a key one being voices. With its large array of around 25 different fully voiced characters, many of which are top-tier voice actors in the Japanese visual novel and anime industries including Norio Wakamoto (his role shown above), Takehito Koyasu, Midorikawa Hikaru, Motoyama Mina (role shown below), Aoyama Yukari, Hokuto Minami, Maki Izumi, Kazane, and far more (almost all, if not every voice actor for the game went on to play their respect role in the anime, though under a different name) – the costs involved in licensing the voices is great indeed. Being a partner of our company, Nexton looked at our current sales and made the decision that the cost of the voices was unfortunately too much for them given the prospects. As such, our release of Koihime will initially be sold without the voices, and likewise, the demo unvoiced as well.

We realize what a shame this is, and as a show of apology we will be lowering the price of the game from our originally intended 44.95Euro to around 39.95Euro.

However, all is not lost either. We at MangaGamer discussed this issue with Nexton at great length, and Nexton agreed with us that they would like to be able to release the game with voices as well if it’s at all possible. As such, we negotiated terms with Nexton and reached an agreement: if over 2,000 copies are sold, a patch will be released and the voices WILL be added back in.

Stokky wrote:

And they conveniently forgot to mention their failure to license the game's original Japanese voices, leaving it literally speechless.

3. If this game actually makes some money they've said they'll licence the voices and give them to consumers via a patch, which is certainly more diplomatic than they have to be about this. Especially because they're basically vowing to potentially pay for the voices months after it releases even though a fan-patch for the voices will probably be out within 2 weeks of the release, meaning they're willing to throw money down the toilet just to please a few fans.

The fact is though, is that this is a bad move by nexton. There is very tiny market here for VNs and many who do play them will look for any excuse possible to justify piracy. Nexton just handed them an easy one.