VicViper said:
Yeah, but differently than Robot Wars, all these games are videogame characters with highly experienced publishing offices around the world. In the end, it's not a publishing nightmare... it's just 3 companies. This is not, for example, Jump Super Stars... where every character has a different licenser. All of them belongs to either Capcom, Sega or Namco. Second, a lot of those characters are pretty popular internationally. You don't see many Gundam fans in the west... let alone all those other obscure franchises (to us) that crowd SRW games. But Resident Evil, Megaman, Tekken, Street Fighter, Devil May Cry, Virtua Fighter (etc...) fans exist by the thousands. So, more hard work towards the localization is likely. Third, there were other "Licensing Nightmares" that came over, like Tatsunoko vs Capcom, Cross Edge and even SRW, so it's not out of the realms of possibilities. Just like I said, it's not guaranteed by any means, but... I don't know, I'm having a good feeling! I think Senran Kagura has zero chances of coming over because it's a (im)mature 3DS game. You don't see games like this in the west even for the PS3/360... on 3DS it would be too shocking. And Ciel no Surge, zero chances also, because translatting/dubbing/publishing/marketing would be pretty expensive for a genre that's mostly inexistant here. Especially with that love theme. |
Woah, woah, woah. I'm going to have to stop you right there. Gundam has a huge fanbase in the west. The anime is bought at high volumes, and merchandise is sold at far higher than average rates than other shows. It's not as popular here as it is in Japan, but there's still a big fanbase.
Cross Edge was not a licensing nightmare. The biggest characters to be included were Dark Stalkers and Shadow Hearts characters. Both series of little notireity now. That was also NISA publishing a Compile Heart game which they already have a very good established relationship. TnC is a bit different as it's a fighting game, but that's one for you (although can't really compare the cost of Tatsunoko to Namco or Sega). And I mentioned the SRW games that came over. They're the OG series, which do not have licensed characters like the main series (although, KOS-MOS was in one of them).
You're way off on Senran Kagura. I could point to a dozen localized games that are 'worse' than it. It's super easy honestly.
Ciel no Surge is developed by Gust in the Ar Tonelico universe, which already has a ton of visual novel/dating sim elements. It's not out of the realm of possibility.