Criminal Girls 2 Heading to Western Shores Later This Year

Geoffrey Wright | June 1, 2016 | News | No Comments

NIS America will be bringing Criminal Girls 2: Party Favors to the west later this year. The sequel to Criminal Girls: Invite Only will launch for the PSVita in North America on September 20th and in Europe on September 23rd. NIS America also noted, via the NIS America blog, the changes that will be made to the game for its release in the west:

Redrawn Art

We had a bit more time to work on this title. We didn’t want to make any alterations to the game that would be jarring to the experience or feel “off,” so we worked with the original artist of the game who redrew the art for the Motivation scenes that might have caused issues due to their explicit nature. We didn’t want the game experience to change though, so we are also investing the extra effort into incorporating Criminal Girls 2: Party Favors’s unique Live 2D effect into the new art.

Terminology Changes

As with the first in the series, Criminal Girls: Invite Only, “Punishment” will be framed as “Motivation,” and other terminology changes from the first game will also apply here. There may be a few other translation changes as well. This reduces the power distance between the player character and the girls in the Reformation Program and makes the activities of the game more consensual.

No Native Language Dialogue

Like with Criminal Girls: Invite Only, we will not be dubbing the game in English. The game’s text will be in English, but the spoken dialogue will be the original Japanese voice track.

No Motivation Scene Dialogue

Some of this could cause an issue with power distance, or perceived consent of the activities of the game. This dialogue also represented a technical challenge to localization, because there are no subtitles. Thus, another reason this dialogue was removed was to avoid a situation of no text to accompany several lines of untranslated Japanese being spoken.