Oh God, it's still coming in two separate games?
If they do that for North America, I think I'm going to pass on the game. Unless there's a digital version that lets you organically pick your path when the split happens in the story, then I might consider it, MAYBE.
Because going "here's a game about a difficult moral choice! BTW, you have to make the decision without full context by buying the version of the game with that story in it before you get the full context, and can't make that choice organically in gameplay!" is (pardon the language), TOTALLY FUCKING ASININE and ruins most of the point.
Seriously, the concept really interests me (Do you side with your birth family and damn the people who raised you even though you were basically kidnapped? Or do you try to stick with the family that raised you in an attempt to change Nohr from within and thus save Hoshido at the risk of killing some of the very people you want to save on the hosido side through this gambit?). But if they pull this kind of bullshit with the two versions, I'm not sure I'll even want the game anymore. :s
And if anyone goes "But pokemon does it", NO. Pokemon does not set up a moral dilemma and go "if you want the full story, you need to buy both versions". Pokemon gives you the exact same game, with a handful of different monsters in each version to encourage trading, and with small story differences in some cases. Not equivalent.
If they do that for North America, I think I'm going to pass on the game. Unless there's a digital version that lets you organically pick your path when the split happens in the story, then I might consider it, MAYBE.
Because going "here's a game about a difficult moral choice! BTW, you have to make the decision without full context by buying the version of the game with that story in it before you get the full context, and can't make that choice organically in gameplay!" is (pardon the language), TOTALLY FUCKING ASININE and ruins most of the point.
Seriously, the concept really interests me (Do you side with your birth family and damn the people who raised you even though you were basically kidnapped? Or do you try to stick with the family that raised you in an attempt to change Nohr from within and thus save Hoshido at the risk of killing some of the very people you want to save on the hosido side through this gambit?). But if they pull this kind of bullshit with the two versions, I'm not sure I'll even want the game anymore. :s
And if anyone goes "But pokemon does it", NO. Pokemon does not set up a moral dilemma and go "if you want the full story, you need to buy both versions". Pokemon gives you the exact same game, with a handful of different monsters in each version to encourage trading, and with small story differences in some cases. Not equivalent.
