As a big fan of BL games, I always been very supportive of companies who license and release them in English. I will wait and buy a game, I didnât play in Japanese yet if it is announced in English and will buy the English version of a bl game I already played in Japanese.
Consider all this I will not support and encourage anyone to support Jast blue anymore and the shit they are doing.
Jast is licensing nitro+chiral game, especially popular in the west and known for their darker content, (which is good even though most of them already had a fan patch) but honestly they are doing a horrible job with it.
Even ignoring that their game often tend to have errors and bugs, but them cutting up and trying to sell their games to minors is a big no no.
Iâve been in their server and they seem completely fine with having 14 years old children on a server for 18+ bl games (and yes Iâm sure some played dmmd when they were 14) but were are talking about adults here trying to sell their games to children and not even caring. Also cutting bl games that are not mean to been cut in the first place, is dumb. They removed so much stuff from sweet pool the game didnât even make sense to people who played it cut. Sure maybe dmmd works a little better but you wonât go far with their other games. Slow damage will be even worse because itâs so much darker and if you cut it you will just remove the whole plot, and all the poor people who will play it cut without even knowing, ruining the game for themselves. Do you need money that badly jast?
Secondly, I would like to talk about a big problem I have with their games: the translation. Itâs bad.
They add unnecessary swearing, things like âbroâ âdudeâ making them sounds like so edgy American teenager, I donât know who is translating this but donât add stuff that is not there in the first place, donât try to make everything more âedgyâ and donât try to make Japanese people talk like some Americans, yes this is translated by americans with amrican audience in mind probably but please be more respectful toward the original. Sweet pool already made Makoto sounds stupid but dmmd was just a joke. the game is already seen as a meme but jast made it only worse, to a point you could not read it anymore.
And the last thing that made me especially mad the last few days: How Jast is handling slow damage. One pic of the game showed ones again unnecessary swearing and it was not even translated correctly (sure it can only be this one time but consider they disappointed me enough already, I doubt that)
What makes me really made is how they present the game: as some edgy game meme, what are you doing Jast trying to make a dmmd out of this, or what? Sure, people who didnât play donât know it but this game is so far away from being in any way funny or âedgyâ. I really want to know if the person who tweets this shit even played the game. Giving the most stupid answers to question people ask. They are not your characters jast answer with that what n+c wrote in the game. Them making a joke character out of Towa, makes so MAD saying stuff like âhe would read killing stalkingâ or âmake you worseâ WTF jast. Are you fucking stupid to portray a fucking mentally ill character with heavy trauma who is one step away from committing suicide as some fucking joke?? this is not dmmd, THE GAME IS NOT FUNNY, TAKE THIS FUCKING SERIOUS JAST.
Are they so desperate to sell this game that you need edgy 14 year old kids for your costumers? How about selling them for a higher price and taking things serious for ones jast?
I can only imagine a lot of people going into the game expecting some Aoba kind of joke character only to be hit with one of the most traumatic and darkest themes in a game I ever played.
Consider this I wonât ever judge people who still buy their games because some people only have this option.
But this makes me really said, fans deserve a good translation and a game that is treated seriously but all we get isâŠjast and their cringy joke.
No wonder n+c doesnât want to work with them if their sell their games for such a low price, and I hope they never can translate lamento because they donât deserve the game (go play the fanpatch version itâs great) if you want to support n+c directly go buy their games in Japanese, use the fan-translation or machine translation to play it if you can. At this point I donât think Jast will ever change, and I will not support them in any way.
On a better note, Tokyo Onmyouji will be finally released on the 25th February. Please support the game it looks great and Moonchime Localization did work really hard on it to release it on time unlike some others who make empty promises, took the game and the character seriously and didnât try to make a joke out of it.