I mean, either the ESRB or the FBI are going to be knocking at our door asking for answers. They’d rather have the Disney version of fairy tales than to hear of the originals where suicide, rape, and gruesome murder/mutilation were prominent in the stories. People taking these tragic and horrifying stories and belittling them as “abuse-glorifying dating sims” is a very real-world response by people who only ever want unproblematic content to exist. At no point are any of the “tragic backstories” supposed to make you condone what the characters do. Both games were made to be uncomfortable and disturbing regardless of the romance that was involved.
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Heck, when the Diabolik Lovers anime was released, people came in droves to blast the series for glorifying abuse, which is not what the series was doing (at the time). While the stories themselves are interesting on a story level, the fact that they’re marketed as otome games is what many fans think is the problem. Both Black Wolves Saga and Diabolik Lovers have twisted and disturbing content, including torture, child abuse, rape, incest, physical and mental abuse, and… well, you get the idea. This is something that many fans have come to agree on when the question of a localization comes up. This is NOT gonna work.” Mike, Marketing at Aksys Games There’s a few things where we were really hyped on a game until we hit The Point, as it were, and it’s like, “Mmm-Nope. And there’s several games, there’s a lot of games where you’re like, “Hm, well, that ended really, really weird.” Lots of, like, stuff you just don’t want to read. …It’s important to know if there’s some weird twist somewhere in the end that ESRB might be like, “…Uh, no, that’s, that’s not-, we can’t-, we can’t bring that over to the United States. Unfortunately, it seems that those two games are ones that Aksys will not be able to localize for the West.
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And while Black Wolves Saga -Bloody Nightmare- only has a PC release in Japan, the game was ported and bundled with -Last Hope- under the title Black Wolves Saga -Weiβ und Schwarz for the PS Vita in 2017, giving Aksys not only the ability to localize Diabolik Lovers, but the entire Black Wolves Saga series as well.
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Seeing as XSEED is new to releasing otome games, it’s hard to tell how far they’ll go with it.Īksys, having worked with Idea Factory for some time now in the otome game genre (a majority of otome games are released under Otomate, the otome game branch of Idea Factory), has the most votes when it comes to who fans will go to for a console otome game release.
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So with all the popularity that both titles have received, especially with Diabolik Lovers, the question remains: Why hasn’t a localization company picked up either game for the West? Diabolik Lovers eventually spawned more drama CDs, game sequels with more characters, manga adaptations, an anime adaptation, and whole line of merchandise. As Diabolik Lovers made use of the dummy-head mic technique for its voice actors, it gained even more fans. While Diabolik Lovers is the most popular of the two, both series gained a following due to their twisted and disturbing story-lines. Diabolik Lovers was first released as a drama CD series aimed towards masochists and was later released as its own game and story on the PSP. Black Wolves Saga, the first of the two releases, had two games in the series with the first carrying the title “- Bloody Nightmare-” released on PC and the later second with the title “- Last Hope-” released on the PS Vita. Black Wolves Saga (left) and Diabolik Lovers (right) PS Vita Editions by Otomate and Rejetīlack Wolves Saga and Diabolik Lovers, otome games by Rejet and developed/published by Otomate, were both released in 2012 in Japan.