Not that I had much hope for a physical release, but now it's official:
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BS PR speak aside, it doesn't affect me too much, since I care about the game itself, not the box, but I can see how some people might not bee too pleased with it.
“In response to fan feedback we looked into a western physical release of Dual Destinies but from the beginning of the project, one of our goals has been to bring the game to the western market much more quickly than we have been able to in the past,” Eshiro stated. “As text adventures, the Ace Attorney games require a lot of time for localization, so we really moved the proverbial mountains and had a lot of people work very hard to get the text localized as quickly as possible—while of course maintaining the high quality level fans are accustomed to.”
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BS PR speak aside, it doesn't affect me too much, since I care about the game itself, not the box, but I can see how some people might not bee too pleased with it.