Nippon Ichi has in its infinite wisdom decided to dump Rorona Fryxell from the cover of her own game, the soon to be released English version of Atelier Rorona, a move liable to incense fans.
The Japanese cover shows of some of Kishida Mel’s gorgeous art with heroine Rorona centre stage:
Meanwhile the US cover features a mere stave, and as if to add insult to injury actually uses the same image as the Japanese cover (at the bottom), but panned up to keep Rorona firmly out of the picture, favouring instead some flowery medieval buildings:
An insult to the artistic genius of Kishida Mel and the expectations of fans, or pragmatic marketing based on the assumption that paedophilic Chinese cartoons just won’t sell in the US of A?
Or sheer philistinism on the part of a company unaccustomed to marketing anything not involving a Prinny?
The game itself is released September 28th, with pre-orders already open.
once again i easily claim the 100th post
If I saw this in a store, not neither knowing what it is nor recognizing the brands, I wouldn’t even touch it because it looks like one of those typical cheap girly games.
by: Blkant
Wonder what they have against anime looking characters…
Because the Japanese draw cuter and more attractive female characters.
Has nothing to do with it being anime. It’s a fairy-princess girl on the front cover which won’t appeal to young men interested in buying video games in America. They’d probably say “Oh, it’s a Barbie game for PS3.”
hahaha
american sure needs some fat lips macho women in the cover
but,most part of this game is about cute girl, so why they need to hide it from the customers
their potential buyer is people that already familiar with the game, and not some some random young men
Can someone help me out? I want to get this game but no money ;_; so I have to ask someone to buy it for me. Is there any “questionable” material in it? I’m not a moralfag, I just don’t want my family getting any weird thoughts…..
There’s no “questionable” material in it. But your family might still get a weird thoughts
It’s cool, they already think I’m a pansy for playing girly games. As long as they don’t catch onto DFC….