MiKandi Japan announces a Steam Greenlight and Kickstarter for a professional-quality eroge. Plans for an uncut release are also confirmed!
Getchu JP store page (NSFW)
Official JP site (NSFW)
Description from the Steam Greenlight page:
"Libra of the Vampire Princess" is Xero's new bishoujo visual novel game being released in Japan on October 30th under their hit label Onomatope.
----------------------------------------------------------A Story of Battle, Blood, and Love!----------------------------------------------------------
Syuma Kusanagi is just an ordinary boy…
Until the day he is suddenly abducted by a mysterious girl named Iris. She reveals to him a hidden secret about his birth…
Coursing through his veins, Syuma has a special kind of blood – vampire blood passed down from his progenitors. Iris is known as a "ringleader" vampire who also has this ancestral blood. Her destiny: to "awaken" Syuma.
In his attempt to flee her clutches, Iris pounces on him to finish the embrace! Luckily, at the very last moment, the keepsake ring given to Syuma by his mother emits a blinding light that interrupts her vicious attack.
Syuma breaks free and escapes from Iris, but soon realizes something inside him has gone amiss. Could he have become an odd, partially-turned vampire? Now, many girls are entering his life from many directions and complicating the situation. To make matters worse, he is plagued from an overwhelming impulse to suck…
……
…..
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… their blood.
What will happen next is for you to decide!
A Kickstarter campaign is also planned this Fall to help fund the English release.
As with Debonosu's Kagura Douchuuki (H-RPG Kagura Douchuuki gets a Greenlight for Censorship), this looks to be another Japanese erogame heading for a censored release on Steam.
Some notable differences:
- The game isn't even out yet in Japan.
- Translation quality is likely to be good: they have MiKandi Japan working on it, and the Greenlight page's English is excellent.
- There's going to be a Kickstarter campaign to help fund the release.
- MiKandi Japan has confirmed an uncut release. This will manifest as a free patch for the Steam version.
MiKandi is a well-known English distributor of adult content, and with this release they've thrown their hat into the ring of eroge publishing. I'm looking forward to see what other plans MiKandi Japan has in store. Feel free to show your support for MiKandi by commenting on the Greenlight campaign page or in my Greenlight forum thread.
Also check out my poll: (Poll) Libra of the Vampire Princess: Adult version or non-adult version, which would you play?
Register for e-mail notification when the campaign goes live on Kickstarter here.
(My interest in this game has nothing to do with the vampire loli, I swear.)
Edit 9/30/15: Added confirmation of an uncut version in the pipeline and the poll.
Edit 10/25/15: Added e-mail registration link for the Kickstarter.
