One issue I did have with Criminal Girls: Invite Only was in regards to the localization.
By itself, you receive some decent character development and the storyline is consistently present so you won’t find yourself making your way through half the game with very little dialogue to go with it. The storyline isn’t revolutionary for the genre and ultimately comes across as little more than an adequate plot to justify the dungeon crawling RPG elements. Should you achieve the goal, you can go back to your ordinary life whilst each girl will be atoned and revived in the real world.
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These girls risk spending eternity in the dark prison which they currently reside in unless you take the lead as Program Instructor to work and guide them through the four trials of a Reformation Program (Which in your case also involves several labyrinths full of enemies). The catch is that… instead of working in a zoo you are forced into the dank prison tower of hell, and instead of looking after cute animals, you are left to handle young and (to be fair) cute “delinquents” who died well before they could become actual criminals. Having now had the opportunity to see how the localization has fared, I can finally give my final verdict on if this was worth the trouble bringing Criminal Girls: Invite Only to Western markets or if the resources may have been better spent on something a little bit more familiar to the international JRPG crowd.Ĭriminal Girls: Invite Only sees you take control of a self-named character who accepted a job looking after what they presumed to be animals as a zookeeper. While it has failed to receive any form of digital or retail distribution in Australia, New Zealand or Ireland NIS America have managed to launch Criminal Girls: Invite Only in North America, with a subsequent release in Europe coming in only a few days time. My belief was further diminished when NIS America decided to edit out the bathing scene mini-games in Mugen Souls and Mugen Souls 2 – prompting me to import and write a mini-review of Criminal Girls: Invitation in late-2013.īut to my surprise, the company announced their plans to work on the game during their games panel at Anime Expo 2014, with them subsequently confirming that they wouldn’t be censoring the game into a shell of what it was previously. While I have previously thrown some of my support behind a localization, I remained skeptical that it would ever be released outside of Japan given the sexual undertones and displays of punishment which are heavily prominent in the “motivation” mini-games, a defining feature of Criminal Girls.
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After it was discovered that the credits to the original Japanese PlayStation Portable release of Criminal Girls gave special thanks to Nippon Ichi Software America, there have been rumours that this was indicative of an eventual international release.
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