Then I really don't understand why these games are not coming to west, I even heard some people say the game is "too Japanese" which actually makes me angry because so was Persona and Yakuza and they are currently very fucking popular in west.
So, some of the speculation is that, despite Sherlock Holmes being public domain, other Sherlock Holmes characters that were introduced later on aren't and DGS uses some of them. This is just something I've read around here & there so take it with a grain of salt, though.
I'm honestly fearful of the type of reception and translation that DGS would get in the west. The game doesn't shy away from period appropriate racism as well as other frowned upon views. In addition to that the racism isn't used as vehicle for a moralistic sub-plot, it's mostly just to evoke the era and sometimes played for laughs. There's no "Naruhodou owns the racist then everyone claps" moment.
I've seen games get torn to shreds for content way less "offensive"
than the stuff in DGS (a few examples, no spoilers). Which in itself wouldn't be so bad if the game was delivered more or less as intended. But when
articles like this represent a growing mentality in this industry, I have no faith that would be the case.
So I almost feel like, being that Ace Attorney is one of my favorite series and DGS is one of my favorite games in that series, I'd rather not even go through the mess of an official western release. The scarlet study fan translation is fantastic and most people have a 3DS, Android or a PC to play it via emulation. I'd rather Capcom do an HD remaster/translation of Ace Attorney Investigations 2 because the fan translation of that game has some awful pop culture references and there's nothing that would really need to be "culturized."
