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Hakuoki: Demon Of The Fleeting Blossom Will Be North America’s First Otome Game

By Spencer . July 2, 2011 . 12:17pm

Hakuoki: Demon Of The Fleeting Blossom Will Be North Americas First Otome GameAll of those otome surveys from Aksys led to the localization of a girl’s romance game. Aksys picked up Hakuoki: Demon of the Fleeting Blossom from Idea Factory. For Hakuoki fans, this is the game that started it the series, which has grown into a manga and anime series.

 

Hakuoki: Demon of the Fleeting Blossom takes place at the end of Japan’s Edo period. After 200 years of rule the shogunate begins to dissolve and the Shinsengumi rose during the political turmoil. Defined by samurai traditions, the Shinsengumi protect the streets of Kyoto from ronin.

 

Chizuru Yukimura, a young woman looking for her father is the game’s protagonist. She isn’t the only one. The Shinsengumi are searching for her father inside the town of Hakuoki, which holds its own secrets – supernatural secrets. Now protected by the Shinsengumi, can you find your father and more importantly true love?

 

That’s the goal of Hakuoki: Demon of the Fleeting Blossom. Players will make choices that affect Chizuru’s relationship status that lead up to one of the game’s multiple endings. A handy chart within the game lets you keep track of romance and corruption levels so you can target (or avoid) the man of your dreams (or nightmares).

 

Hakuoki: Demon of the Fleeting Blossom will be released for PSP, in stores and on PSN, in the first quarter of 2012.

 

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  • http://twitter.com/Xuiz enorka miho

    I am super uber happy now!!! Atlast… I get to play it… And I love the idea that my choices will land me with some random guy… Thank you Akys i love you!!! XD
    Will definitely be getting the limited edition!!!! I am so sosooooo excited now…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_47OS7IP7EEJLYGYA4TMIDBW2V4 Minato

    Will Akys translate more visual novel?

  • aoihana

    PSP? Portable Bishounen’s? Count.Me.In. 

  • blah blah

    Wow, it seems to be getting a lot of positive comments.
    I guess it was a good choice?

  • riana ardila

    WUAAAHHH!!
    SO HAPPY:3
    THANK YOU AKSYS ! I LOVE YOU MORE SINCE 999 !
    then what i can do now is save my money for buying PSP (>_<")

  • masuto

    omg some of those screenshots are spoilers!

  • EmmyG

    But this ISN’T north america’s first otome game by a long shot!

    This isn’t even north america’s first originally-japanese otome game. (Yo Jin Bo)

    This isn’t even north america’s first originally-japanese otome game for consoles. (Princess Debut)

    Why are your writers such liars?

    • Tsuruhime

      Well it’s an otome game WITH GREAT ART.
      Yo Jin Bo was somewhat of a hit and miss, no wonder the company that published and translated the English version is no longer in business. The game was inaccurately translated (some things were placed in just for giggles by English translators.) and had faults, but, yet, it was the first otome game.

      Princess Debut, I feel like pedophile when I play it, since the youngest guy is only thirteen and the oldest sixteen. Most of the characters are either in between. Plus it was kind of cheesy. ;;

      • http://twitter.com/Mfufufu Eri

        Cheesy as it was, I suppose it technically is an otome game. The intended audience isn’t the same though (^-^;;)

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Lisa-Fraulein/1649565545 Lisa Fraulein

    I LOVE! 

  • chocoxpanda7

    Ah but would the seiyuus still be the same as they were before in the original because i really really love the seiyuus they were perfect for the shinsengumi…

  • http://twitter.com/Mfufufu Eri

    Buying to support, even though I have the game in Japanese right he on my shelf.

    And now the eternal question: What about europe?

  • http://www.oneltwops.org Santashi

    Ooh, brilliant! Definitely buying this to support Aksys and their daring game choices. I’m always interested to see what they’re going to localise next.

  • http://www.facebook.com/masteryoshi88 Katharine Bush

    OMG Yes!!!!

  • http://ofurotaimu.dreamwidth.org shirokiryuu

    YYEEEEESSSSSS Ikemen samurais in English wktk wktk

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000516091443 Arianna Smith

    YES YES YESSS! 8DDDD <3333 

  • tass123

    Very happy!
    And since the PSP is region free we in Europe don’t have to worry.
    The only thing they could screw up was if they tried to dub it. (Or even if they did, not include Japanese voices)

    Hakuoki is such great read (I’ve played every single one) and great otome games to start with, so hopefully more people will get interested in reading visual novels.

  • Erin Owen

    OMG YES YES YES YES!!!! ABOUT TIME!!! OMGGAWDDD NOW I HAVE A GOOD REASON TO BUY A PSP, FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF I ALWAYS WANTED TO PLAY THIS GAME THIS IS SUPERRR AWESOME NEWS! *SQUEAS*

  • XxDestinyXx

    I went from thinking Aksys was cool to totally loving them with this one game. lol
    If they start releasing Otome games regularly, I may just develop a case of hero worship.  ;)

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