Dakkodango Translations

Hi guys, just one quick question, would the removal of the h-content, which would mean the lack of the evil route be a significant detriment to gameplay. Because on the JASTUSA forums I found this


"olf_le_fol wrote:
In Aselia, the main hero leads a constant fight against darkness, a bit like Luke in Star Wars. He's promised power, and more power, escape from his problems, etc. if he gives to that darkness, that is at the same time the source of power he needs in order to protect the people about whom he cares. As the hero, you, the player, hears, reads, and feels this constant attraction to power, and I'm sure more than one have thought, at least once, "Hey, he's an idiot, I'm sure losing himself ONCE in his anger, accepting Motome's (to simply, let's say it's the name of the source of darkness) offer for more wouldn't be SO bad!"
The dark route exists for that reason. In the dark route, Yuuto lets himself possessed by the darkness, sometimes by merely stop fighting its constant urge to use it. The *very* meaning of the dark route is to see how HORRIBLE a person Yuuto becomes, and how much he ends hurting everyone about whom he (and the player as well, because all the other characters [including the minor ones, the Minor Spirits, who became so popular, a sequel was made about them] are wonderful ones --including the villains) cares, doing to them horrible things. Are there a lot of rapes in this dark route? Yes, plenty, and I feel their purpose is rather to disgust the player than anything. One of my friends started the route, but never completed it, being disgusted by what happened to the girls there; OTOH, it gave him the will to play the game without ever giving to Motome, because he wanted to avoid at all cost the dark route."

And it has me worried about the lack of the evil route. Not that I'm saying that you guys should change it, but could the differences be clarified so that I would know what I'm actually missing.

Thanks

As you just described, you'll be "missing" a bunch of insult scenes where you do terrible things to innocent girls. The rest of the original game is relatively clean in contrast and low on sexual content (a couple exceptions apply), focusing on the story so, I figure they felt the need to add a side route full of rape to sell the game better (especially in light of their past games which may've given them a particular audience they didn't want to lose). Good call if you ask me, would have been much worse if they had dumped all that rape in the main story (I'm sure it was on the table at some stage of planning).

If you're dying to see them, save yourself the trouble and check the scene gallery of the original game with full save file, it's not like there's any other content in the evil route itself.

Edit: nice to see good old olf_le_fol is still active, last time he was attacking the translation of all-ages version on the basis that it "instigates people to piracy", I see he has moved to writing straightforward eulogies to the evil route. Transparent any?