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Valkyrie Drive Bhikkhuni Listed on Shopto Published by PQube in EU

Sealtest

Member
Page was active but has now been taken down but if you look under Vita top pre-orders you will still see Valkyrie Drive as #4.

Someone tweeted about it earlier today and had PQube like the tweet.

I'm not sure if the tweet should be linked since it has many anime girls in bikinis.
 

Nyoro SF

Member
The translated achievements were leaked a while back. I'm assuming that it's coming West and this leak reinforces that, just when is the big question.

TBH since the SK series does well for all publishers involved I'm surprised it wasn't announced earlier... but maybe they were making sure SKEV didn't get in the way and cause buyer fatigue or something.
 

oldmario

Member
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just incase it gets removed from the pre-order list too
 

koutoru

Member
Nice to see this getting localized.

With the relative success SK has been and with other games like Onechanbara getting localized, these types of games must be doing well in terms of sales expectations.
 

Nyoro SF

Member
I believe the game always had English trophies, Or I remember them being English when I played my JP copy.

I remember one weird instance where I imported BBCP JP, but when the localization was finishing up my Japanese trophies converted to the English ones by themselves.

I believe PSN trophies sync based on the region of your console. Trophy certification probably happens earlier than any other form of certification submitted by third parties given that it's likely the easiest thing. I assume you played your copy on your American or European Vita?

It would lend credence that XSEED / Marvelous has been localizing / already localized the game and are just waiting for the right time to release.
 

Tohsaka

Member
Figured it was coming because of the English trophies, and the SK games being popular. I'll buy it whenever they get around to releasing it here.
 

Eolz

Member
That'd be really good news if true, heard really good things about it in the SK community thread.
Like with Uppers, can't really care anymore about the Vita sadly, so I hope they can somehow make a PS4 port...

Looking forward to Marvelous next games anyway, they keep improving their formula!
 

Vlaphor

Member
I'm not too familiar with the game's content, but I know that there's no way in hell the show would come to consoles unedited. How much of the game is in the show and vice versa?
 
Ehh.

Though the one positive from this is that Marvelous Europe have possibly worked on this on their own, which is pretty cool.
 
Really excited for the news. I imported the japanese version and I'm absolutely delighted with the game. It pretty much takes everything that worked on both SK2 and EV and refines it. So I'm glad at the possibility of everyone else being able to play the game.

What are the odds that if this is real, it will be an europe exclusive?

I'm not too familiar with the game's content, but I know that there's no way in hell the show would come to consoles unedited. How much of the game is in the show and vice versa?

This is all what the show had from the game. A one minute cameo of the game's protagonists in the final episode.

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Although the game eventually got the anime protagonists added as DLC.

As for the content, Bhikkhuni is a pretty tame game all things considered, Estival Versus has more risky content and that one came over without any issues. If there's something that might be controversial is the fact the girls are openly lesbians.
 
What are the odds that if this is real, it will be an europe exclusive?

Absolutely zero chance. The Vita audience in the EU is even smaller than it is in the US, no way would they bother with this type of localization if only one of the regions were getting it. May as well be throwing money away if that were the case.
 
What are the odds that if this is real, it will be an europe exclusive?
Nil. Absolute worst case scenario, pQube or Xseed releases it as a digital exclusive. Likely scenario is that Xseed was working on it after all and Marv Europe/pQube is just doing EU duty, alternative scenario is that pQube and Marv EU paid for the localisation and Xseed or pQube prints discs.
 
Nil. Absolute worst case scenario, pQube or Xseed releases it as a digital exclusive. Likely scenario is that Xseed was working on it after all and Marv Europe/pQube is just doing EU duty, alternative scenario is that pQube and Marv EU paid for the localisation and Xseed or pQube prints discs.
I'm going with the latter. I don't see why XSEED wouldn't announce it at E3 otherwise, lots of people were hoping for it. I guess Marv will announce it and then XSEED will reveal that they also publish it in NA.

That's all just a theory, but it makes sense to me
 

Sealtest

Member
I'm hoping we'll get some of those VDB keychains and screen cloths they released in JP in short supply.


Viola best girl.
 

Battlechili

Banned
Awesome news! I know a lot of people have been waiting for this. I love that all these fanservice games keep coming to the West, and Valkyrie Drive in particular at least had a VERY lewd anime. It had some nice scenes in it. I'm not sure if I'll grab this personally though, as after playing Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus I suspect the gameplay will be a bit too shallow for my tastes. I might give it a try though. We'll see.

Although I'm still waiting for Bullet Girls 2 to get brought over. Its the fanservice game that I REALLY want.
 

Tohsaka

Member
Awesome news! I know a lot of people have been waiting for this. I love that all these fanservice games keep coming to the West, and Valkyrie Drive in particular at least had a VERY lewd anime. It had some nice scenes in it. I'm not sure if I'll grab this personally though, as after playing Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus I suspect the gameplay will be a bit too shallow for my tastes. I might give it a try though. We'll see.

Although I'm still waiting for Bullet Girls 2 to get brought over. Its the fanservice game that I REALLY want.

I doubt we will get BG2, since the first one never got localized. I imported the first one when it was cheap on sale, there's a full translation guide for everything except the story dialogue on the PlayStation Trophies forum which I used to get the platinum trophy. I think the same guy already did a guide for the sequel, I'll probably buy it later this year when it's cheaper.
 
That's great, need this game since Estival Versus combat sucked. Really interested in the VD Smash Brothers mode, was it any good?

It was a lot of fun. Sure it had some details here and there with the physics but that was to be expected since Meteorise pretty much rigged the game's engine to pull it off.

Shame that the online is dead nowadays.
 
Might have been a mistake, article was changed to say Vita EXCLUSIVELY (their emphasis)

Oh yeah, it has indeed changed, the tweet you posted in the other thread also says only Vita. Tbh, PQube seem cool with Vita exclusives anyway so I could believe it.

Awesome news. I wonder if this means PQube will go after Uppers too.
 

Takao

Banned
Good to know XSEED doesn't have exclusivity on Marvelous releases. That means there's still an outside chance for Net High and even Luminous Arc Infinity.
 

18-Volt

Member
Good to know XSEED doesn't have exclusivity on Marvelous releases. That means there's still an outside chance for Net High and even Luminous Arc Infinity.

I'm not sure if I could expect anything from XSEED after this. They're slowly becoming the worst publisher around. They have skipped Tokyo Xanadu and Valkyrie Drive for... Akiba's Beat? An Acquire RPG?
 

Saphirax

Member
I'm not sure if I could expect anything from XSEED after this. They're slowly becoming the worst publisher around. They have skipped Tokyo Xanadu and Valkyrie Drive for... Akiba's Beat? An Acquire RPG?

Short of some disaster AB is going to sell a lot more than TX (Vita) and VD (Vita) would simply because AB is for ps4 as well and it's not like Acquire is adverse to porting their games to PC.
 

maouvin

Member
Is Kotonome from the anime in the game, beyond being DLC?

I particularly can't stand her voice and dropped the anime thanks to that, so I must know.
 

18-Volt

Member
Short of some disaster AB is going to sell a lot more than TX (Vita) and VD (Vita) would simply because AB is for ps4 as well and it's not like Acquire is adverse to porting their games to PC.

That part worries me the most. Now XSEED only localize games that sell? It's not like them to do this, I mean they just released a game for freaking PSP 6 months ago.
 
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