Mugen Souls Launching for PC on October 22


Ghostlight Games have announced the release date for Mugen Souls on PC.

The Compile Heart-developed strategy RPG will launch for PC via Steam on October 22nd. Featured above, a new trailer for the game was revealed by the publisher.

If you manage to get the game within launch time, it will cost $19.99, with a 40 percent discount. In case you’re wondering about the game’s post-launch DLC that was released for consoles – Ghostlight will begin releasing the DLC for the game beginning on October 29th – all at the same 40 percent discount.

It’s also worth mentioning that Ghostlight is releasing 30 packs of DLC from the console version as part of the base game, entirely for free.

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  • alterku

    Also worth mentioning is it’s still the heavily censored version, so don’t bother if you’re against censorship.

  • Karo

    How censored are we talking here?

  • N-Cop

    alot of minigames and cgs were taken out if i remember right

  • 21603

    Yeah like 120. That’s a shit-ton!

  • alterku

    https://archive.is/OBn83
    Keep in mind there’s a healthy dose of political “we FELT we had to” in most of the answers, but there is the reasoning.

  • NuclearCherries

    Great, another game to avoid thanks to NISA.

  • Jumanji Joe

    Why even bother porting this game if the core audience it appeals to doesn’t even want it.

  • Nagato

    20 bucks at launch + console dlc for free sounds like a good deal to me, props to Ghostlight for understanding the market.

    Also, while I’m not at all in favor of censoring and know that NISA has a history with unnecessary changes, even I recognize the logic – arguably even necessity – in making inaccessable certain content so a game would even be viable for release on the western market.

    Granted, it’s a catch-22 since a lot of pervier weebs won’t buy anything censored solely on principle, but yeah; it was understandably safer to just bet on the Disgaea and/or Neptunia audiences. We’ll likely see the content modded back into the PC release one way or the other, though.

  • Master Bating

    Heres to hoping some die hard fan fixes the game.

    Its not like they couldnt release it on Steam and test the waters, or even better, release a patch on the side.

    But Im not optimistic.

  • patyos

    omg yes Mugen souls on PC !!!!

  • Karo

    >NISA

    Ooooooooooooooof course. Could have just said that and i would avoid it like the plague.

  • Immahnoob

    It’s pretty much “Loli-looking characters are children, that’s like… Child pornography yo.”.

    That is retarded.

  • Hector Marquez Martinez

    In PC ratings don’t mean shit, all the censoship is just because they want. In the western market the only ones who would buy the game are the ones who are angry right now because of this bullshit.

  • Audie Bakerson

    If IF required they port something already in English for some reason there is STILL a better option in Monster Monpiece.

    At least Monster Monpiece and its sequels are medicore games that would be trivial to uncensor by modders (replace a few textures with the original: done. Texture replacements are relatively easy). Mugen Souls is horribly censored AND a horrible game.

    (dear Ghostlight staff: that’s not a request. I’d rather have Agarest Marriage and its girls loving girls)

  • Mea K

    Thanks for bringing this up and saving me $20.

  • Nagato

    Hmm, theoretically you are correct, but I can see the conventional PC-game distrubutors rejecting it on basis of the content anyway; leaving the uncensored version to be released through Denpasoft and/or Mangagamer instead.

    That being said, the smart thing to do would be for Ghostlight to make an official patch available off-Steam like Huniepop and Nekopara, so the normal public can just buy a random cute-looking anime game that doesn’t go too far on its own, and those interested in lewdness can easily get it with an extra click or two.

  • Cataro

    I don’t know the Game, but it looks like it could be fun!
    After researching a bit it feels like a mix between disgaea and neptunia (more on neptunia tho). So it could have instabuy probability’s;)

  • Bananalint

    I know it’s done by ghostlight but still, fuck NISA.

  • Bianca Ann Saracino

    Their anime premium editions are really nice though ^_^

  • Mea K

    Don’t get your hopes up. The similarly butchered Agarest 2 (also missing CGs and minigames, and a whole DLC character), released by Ghostlight earlier this year, never received such a patch. To my knowledge no one has been able to mod the missing content back in either.

    Also know that Ghostlight’s PC version of Agarest 2 is much more heavily censored than the North American PS3 version by Aksys. That’s right: the console version is less censored than the PC one because it’s opposite day at Ghostlight HQ.

    This company censors content because they want to, presumably because they’re moralistic assholes.

  • Bianca Ann Saracino

    I own the NA PS3 version of Agarest 2 but I was under the assumption that it wasn’t censored, I know the EU PS3 version has stuff cut that was in the NA version but what was cut from the NA version?

  • Mea K

    Sorry, I worded that poorly. As far as I know nothing was cut from the American version. Ghostlight based their (international) PC version on the European PS3 version for no good reason.

  • Nad Nod

    So it’s been censored by NISA and i kinda had a hunch Ghostlight will butchered more of that content(agarest 2)

  • Nad Nod

    what?
    is that 120 CG or 120 Mini Game?

  • Bianca Ann Saracino

    Oh okay, thanks for further explaining ^_^

  • Bianca Ann Saracino

    120 CG I believe but also a bunch of minigames.

  • Nagato

    There’s a precedent set by anywhere up to a dozen games offering official uncensoring patches in the last year or so though, with Steam being fully okay with adult content being offered that way.

    Since that much is now actually a thing, it should be much easier to ask for since there are concrete examples of others doing it, and you can actually point towards examples of them being rewarded for it with accurate sales numbers through Steamspy existing now as well:

    http://steamspy.com/app/339800
    http://steamspy.com/app/333600

  • Nad Nod

    what 120 CG and minigames?
    geez that’s a lot of cut content (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
    that’s ridiculous

  • ivanchu77

    Why so many people in Nichegamer hate NISA ? , they were the first company that started localizing these type of niche JRPGs along with atlus, and is also one of the companys that has localized the most of these type of games.

    and unlike atlus they also make the effort of putting japanese voices in their titles most of the time and don´t make their games extra expensive for it

    not to mention it´s thanks to them that franchises like atelier or neptunia managed to come to the west and get popular here

    if it wasn´t for them and a few other companys that opened the way, we would still get only super mainstream JRPGs like final fantasy and nobody would bother with smaller JRPG titles, just like it happened on the playstation 1 days, they became a little puritans recently censoring some games but it´s a company that certaintly deserves our respect

  • Antoinant

    man that amount of shilling

    “it´s a company that certaintly deserves our respect”

  • Cerzel

    Sure, they localised some niche games in the past. They did a pretty shitty job of localising them, but they brought them over.
    That doesn’t reflect what they’ve done over the last several years and all the shit they’ve pulled though. They may have deserved some respect once but they certainly don’t anymore.

  • Amon

    It the same thing that happens to alot of AAA companies, just because you were good in the past doesn’t mean that you will remain good forever.

    In NISA’s case there were some recent cases where the “localized” version of the game perform worst then the original version or even the quality of the translation was questionable.

  • Cerzel

    There was never any necessity in removing the content in the first place.

  • Antoinant

    Don’t forget Disgaea 2 melting your PS3, or Witch and the Hundred Knight that was never fixed despite one guy that literally offered the patch to NISA.

  • Cerzel

    Disgaea D2.
    And here, let’s just chuck out the big list.

  • alterku

    They also removed some of the monsters in Monpiece. I’m willing to not understand a single word of the game if I have to import it to get full gameplay/options, which as I understand it is required in that case.

  • alterku

    Ghostlight isn’t innocent either. I’d say what they did to Agarest 2 (full character removal) trumps the censorship in Mugen Souls to a far greater degree.

  • Mea K

    I know, but Agarest 2 had two massive threads (500+ posts) begging for an uncensored version on the Steam forums as well as the usual petitions and e-mail campaigns. Ghostlight didn’t budge, presumably because they don’t want to.

    I don’t disagree this is usually a good way of doing things, but I don’t think it’ll work with this particular company.

  • http://thewiredfishnetwork.com/ Steven T.

    If I were Ghostlight and NISA right now, I’d pay attention to how many people start requesting, and creating, fan-patches to uncensor the game. That possibility alone is the only way Mugen Souls might sell well, at least better than on consoles.

    They both might keep censoring now, but money talks louder than morals. If the game sells well with many people downloading an uncensor patch, there might be a change of heart.

  • Bananalint

    Very true. They are a plague to japanese games.

  • Richard Miller

    The art style reminds me of Disgaea.

  • Richard Miller

    Couldn’t modders fix it?

  • ivanchu77

    same artist

  • sanic

    Wonder who wants this in it’s current state…

  • Cerzel

    That’s because Takehito Harada is the artist for both of them.

  • Audie Bakerson

    They outright removed some? All I’ve heard was they replaced some final forms with duplicates of the penultimate ones.

  • http://myanimelist.net/profile/rayxtr Rayxtr

    Not if the cg’s and minigames are completely removed from the game. There is no uncensored pc version to rip the stuff from like what happens sometimes with Visual Novels.

  • http://myanimelist.net/profile/rayxtr Rayxtr

    The damage to the image of NISA and Ghostlight has already been done. No matter what they did in the past. The last few years they both have destroy the good image they used to have.

    Both are known for companies that like to self-censor their releases and their localizing quality is questionable. NISA is also known for adding a lot of stuff that isn’t in the original source.

    I’m done with NISA and Ghostlight. Seeing a title being localized by them is mostly a good sign to avoid it.

  • http://myanimelist.net/profile/rayxtr Rayxtr

    Replacing of removing it doesn’t change it was censored too. It was a nice game but the censoring did leave a bad after-taste to it.

  • Audie Bakerson

    I never meant to imply it did. I just said it would be way easier to mod a fix for changed 2D images compared to the massive cuts of Mugen Souls.

  • InfectedAI

    Why did they remove a character?

  • kerbastrar2

    Not one person asked for this

    Literally
    Not
    One
    Person

    And it isn’t being uncensored, so who gives a rat’s ass

  • Dewey Defeats Truman

    Honestly I think it’s a lose-lose situation. If you can’t localize a game like Mugen Souls or Criminal Girls without having make cuts to get it through the rating systems, you may as well not bother. I mean, ignoring any kind of personal moral beliefs on censorship, that audience that won’t buy the game on principle is your target demographic. The only real audience left is either people that don’t know about the changes (which will complain the second they find out) and people that buy games like neptunia or disagaea not because they like the gameplay or anything like that, but just solely because they have cute anime girls on the cover. The random joe on the street that wouldn’t give the game a second glance beforehand isn’t gonna change their opinion on it after they discover content was cut or changed.

  • Bananalint

    I thought the censored stuff was just “turned off?” If so someone can easily mod them back in.

  • Narmy

    The censorship by Ghostlight has nothing to do with Steam’s policies, it was unnecessary self-censorship. They probably thought they had a moral duty to fix the “problematic” content in the game.

  • dsadsada

    I’d be willing to judge them on a case by case basis. Demon Gaze and Fairy Fencer F were both very good. I didn’t even realize NISA worked on those actually.

    But for older titles like this that we know is already butchered (and this is one of those cases where it isn’t hyperbole), it’s best to just avoid altogether.

    But hey, it’s on Steam. If people REALLY want to voice their disdain, get it, give it a bad review, and refund it before time’s up.

  • dsadsada

    Wait, I thought they just removed a character from a minigame. They completely removed a character from the entire game?

  • Obbliglol

    I don’t get it. We get this, but not Trinity Universe. Why? Did anyone want friggin’ Mugen Souls on PC? I guess you might be able to sift through the game and find the censored stuff I guess. The game is still shit, even by Neptunia standards tbh.

  • https://twitter.com/solidsalamander SolidSalamander

    More heavily censored NISA/Ghostlight shit. Into the fucking garbage it goes. Goddamned moralfags trying to project their shit into the localizations when the people the games are TARGETED at don’t want the censorship in the first place. Seriously, who the fuck would go to buy Criminal Girls and go “OH THANK GOD they took out the moans and put in PINK MIST OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. Now I won’t be triggered when I motivate my characters, THANK YOU NISA.”

    Absolutely no one.

    NISA thinks they’re somehow making these games “better” or “more appealing” but all they’re doing is ruining the game, fucking up the creators’ intentions/designs, and pissing off the fans instead. Don’t even get me started on how they managed to work in bugs and CPU-melting glitches for several PS3 games.

    Fuck NISA. I hope they fucking shutdown and some better company takes the spotlight for localizing weeb games.

  • http://myanimelist.net/profile/rayxtr Rayxtr

    Ah so, my bad.

  • OverlordZetta

    Considering IFI’s localization decisions are getting to be worse than NISA’s, it’s honestly looking like fans don’t really care about that so long as nothing is censored.

    Meanwhile, NISA has actually made significant progress with Criminal Girls compared to previous games, whereas IFI just gave up localizing the games they would need to censor altogether.

  • Tarrasque

    I wont buy this censored piece of shit

  • Fenrir007

    That logic flies through the window when you compare those releases to other, similar things in the market that dont get an AO rating.

  • Fenrir007

    I would consider getting it if it had not been butchered beyond belief by the censorship police. Then again, being a Ghostlight + NISA project, there was really no other outcome.

  • Thanatos2k

    I think the fact that the game sucks is a lot more important to whether or not you should play it than if underage porn was censored.

  • Thanatos2k

    Another Compile Heart travesty of a game.

  • ivanchu77

    Trinity universe was a colaboration between gust , compile hearts and NIS.

    NIS and compile hearts i think are in bad terms nowadays and gust was adquired by tecmo koei….. i suppose that could be the reason

  • Reon

    You poor soul you have internalized pervertedness.
    The holy pink cloud of righteousness and social justice shall purify you.

  • Teles Trysound

    F you

  • eltonBorges

    People discussing about censorship, but, let me ask you this, could the developer themselves release a PC version without the cut content? Even outside of Steam/GOG. I mean, we, as fans, should star to questioning the Developers directly, since the middle man is the problem.

  • snugdarkly

    Yeah you can never really trust Ghostlight.

  • snugdarkly

    Fag detected.

  • snugdarkly

    Don’t buy it.

  • snugdarkly

    Oh boy more censored shit from Ghostlight. Into the trash it goes.

  • alterku
  • Thanatos2k

    Adult detected you mean.

  • snugdarkly

    Not at all.

  • Thanatos2k

    Well, one of us is, at least.

  • Dr. Evil’s Brother’s Evil Twin

    Mugen Souls got super censored. People are pissed on the forums.

  • snugdarkly

    I’d assume it’s the one that opposes freedom then.

  • Thanatos2k

    It’s definitely not the one who thinks underage porn is “exercising freedom”

  • snugdarkly

    Are you worried about the fictional characters?

  • Caim

    you really are retarded consider doing a backflip in traffic

  • Caim

    removing Ellis is a death sentence in my eyes just by itself, if i knew agarest 2 was censored I would’ve never bought the console version

  • Thanatos2k

    Mature!