Kyo-Ani Arsonist Lawyer: ‘Should This Man Really Get the Death Penalty?’
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Wasn't it set in America for an unknown reason?
Only in the US versions.
A rare example of acceptable changes in localization--even rarer for DRASTIC changes.
I know a lot of you will disagree with me here, and if I'm downvoted for this, I'll understand.
But the changes made when the first game was brought over in 2004--changes that would never be allowed today--were so entertaining that I let them slide. It's probably the last series I can accept this on.
Were the series to be brought over to the US for the first time TODAY, knowing what I know now, no, I wouldn't like it.
It just...let's just say I thought the resulting world the US writers created, it was really interesting to me, and I wanted to learn more about it. That's one of the things that separates a good series from a great one--you don't just want to play the games, you want to learn how its world works and how things got to this point.
I do agree, though, that it also resulted in taking a LOT longer for that prequel series, set in medieval Japan, to get released here because of it. But at least we have it now.
"Eat your hamburgers, Apollo."
That WAS a funny comic, though.