All The Racy Stuff Changed For Tokyo Mirage Sessions’ Western Release
All The Racy Stuff Changed For Tokyo Mirage Sessions’ Western Release
We talked about this when the game was fully announced around this time last year. It seems that thankfully they decided to go the opposite direction to Valkyria and added shadows, costumes, etc to tone down the fan service.
Naturally brodudes are taking this well… I’m just kidding.
They’ve also been on Twitter harassing translators who do localizations (like they make creative decisions) and insisting they just want “word for word translation no matter what”
Of course, people not intent on misunderstanding the concept of localization or attacking people for doing their jobs can formulate a pretty simple theory on why this release may be slightly different.
Tokyo Mirage Sessions is a combination of Fire Emblem and Shin Megami Tensei but based off the sales figures available (looking at just Japan), it only sold about 10% of what Fire Emblem Fates did (special edition literally sold out on day one) and about 12% of what Shin Megami Tensei IV did.
They’re not terrible sales, but it’s got to be a disappointing result based off the two brands involved here. It’s almost like all this over emphasis on fan service and hyper-sexualization of female characters at the expense of the rest of the product doesn’t go down well with mainstream audiences in Japan either.
So now they’re trying make into a game people won’t avoid for fear having to have an awkward talk if someone walks in while they’re playing it.
– wincenworks
All The Racy Stuff Changed For Tokyo Mirage Sessions’ Western Release
All The Racy Stuff Changed For Tokyo Mirage Sessions’ Western Release
We talked about this when the game was fully announced around this time last year. It seems that thankfully they decided to go the opposite direction to Valkyria and added shadows, costumes, etc to tone down the fan service.
Naturally brodudes are taking this well… I’m just kidding.
They’ve also been on Twitter harassing translators who do localizations (like they make creative decisions) and insisting they just want “word for word translation no matter what”
Of course, people not intent on misunderstanding the concept of localization or attacking people for doing their jobs can formulate a pretty simple theory on why this release may be slightly different.
Tokyo Mirage Sessions is a combination of Fire Emblem and Shin Megami Tensei but based off the sales figures available (looking at just Japan), it only sold about 10% of what Fire Emblem Fates did (special edition literally sold out on day one) and about 12% of what Shin Megami Tensei IV did.
They’re not terrible sales, but it’s got to be a disappointing result based off the two brands involved here. It’s almost like all this over emphasis on fan service and hyper-sexualization of female characters at the expense of the rest of the product doesn’t go down well with mainstream audiences in Japan either.
So now they’re trying make into a game people won’t avoid for fear having to have an awkward talk if someone walks in while they’re playing it.
– wincenworks
@frostythekitten submitted:
It’s about shopping and making the town great with your awesome deals and moneymaking skills, yet…..they gotta appeal to male viewers!!
*cringes*
Gotta appeal to male viewers who have specific desires and hence want to see fantasy women in ridiculous outfits, often covering up one eye with hair and/or baring their midriff. This seriously looks more like it’s someone’s idea for a dating sim than a shop simulator/manager game.
Among other concerns, this makes me worry that someone is going to make a Fantasy World Dating Sim and it’s going to get all kinds of negative reviews from confused people who thought it was a dungeon crawlers, shop manager, tactical strategy or pretty much any sort of game other than a dating sim.
– wincenworks
So it appears that advertising giant Unilever has, after two years of research, realized that it is indeed a myth that sex sells and that campaigns depicting women as sex objects for presumed cishet male audiences alienate women.
Of course, they could have saved themselves those two years by looking at literally any marketing research done since 1960s.
Now if only we can convince some of the advertising companies that deal in comics and video games of this reality.
– wincenworks
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