Chou no Doku's Questionable English Release

...Aka, how NOT to port a console otome to mobile. ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Tune in to salt below.

(I realized I forgot to post here as well. Condensed Tumblr version located here.)

So on April 20th, 2020, a mobile otoge company called Abracadabra released a mobile port of the (sorta) spicy game, Chou no Doku by Aromarie. Another otome available for the first time in English - This should be great news for the #OtomeArmada! Right? ....Wrong.

If you want to bypass the ticket system, then you can buy a full route package for the amazing price of.... $90! Did I mention that this microtransaction system is kinda exploitative and no one charge that much ever? 🙄

Did I also mention that it's extremely buggy, has no voice acting, and doesn't even include the super steamy scenes because it's a handheld port rather than a PC port? ┌（┌ ^o^）┐

Ugh 90$ for a game that doesn’t even have voices...I was looking forward to it pic.twitter.com/TUPiz9gGVQ

— Ashley Small (@AmayaKiriya) April 22, 2020

Abracadabra is also notorious for paying their translators and editors horribly so... don't support them on that front either lol.

To quote one of my twitter rants about it:

I remember when I first got into mobage and saw Shall We Date's Scarlet Fate, aka Hiiro no Kakera 4. And I remember thinking to myself, wait it's a psp game originally but there's no voices?? + the whole checkpoint system. And when I played there weren't any voices OR bgm 🤔

@ otome companies I'm begging you... Stop porting full games to mobile. 😑😑 Or at least do it right like Idea Factory.

$90!? No voice acting! You might as well import it at that price for a lot cheaper. Even cheaper would be using a JP account to buy it on Switch. 👍

Ports like this are the reason why mobile otoges get a bad rep. I understand the "we'll take anything!" mentality when licensed otome in English are so scarce, but if you're going to receive a product then you should receive a high quality one!

That's all for now. Until next time!

Bonus: Here's a scene with some voice acting in it

I really want to make one last point about Chou no Doku's mobile port is that the experience is SO MUCH DIFFERENT since they remove the voice acting (forgive the lighting). Idk how they can charge 90USD for an incomplete game #choudoku #chounodoku #otome #otomegame #otomearmada pic.twitter.com/RnfqZf5I2b

— Julie (@berrycrepes) May 4, 2020