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To elaborate even further, the term was coined internally at XSeed due to things also going wrong when they *did* try to localize the games. Sky SC had an infamous very hellish localization story. There's a Kotaku article that goes into it by the same name. Would recommend reading.

I had to explain to a friend who played Persona 4 that a character like Rise using "senpai" really does not have the connotations they think it does. It's weird that people have the impression that it's supposed to be an affectionate term?

They also made it in 1996, actually.

They did, it's called Hero Route.

It's a crazy world we're living in.

Wait what

Many Japanese visual novel writers have written about what would happen if you closed the box

She is the epitome of the autism creature.

I love how so many JP learners I know want to specifically read Souseki and Neko in particular but are unfortunately roadblocked by the fact it's not only old, it's old satire that was intentionally written to be pompous and hard to read.

Actual Nrvnqsr beast behavior.

There are a lot of great JP movies!!! Many not well translated!!! Hop on!!!!

I wish the modern Switch port had online because the idea is so cool but GBA link cable stuff is always so inaccessible...

The 30 hour playtime makes me feel like this is probably something similar to Gnosia, though given Ishii's track record I assume the story will have more to it.