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Anonymous;Code Release Date is September 8

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Mar 222023
 

Last July, one of the exciting announcements from Spike Chunsoft’s Anime Expo 2022 showcase was that Anonymous;Code would be released in the west in 2023.

Now the release date has been announced. Anonymous;Code will be out on September 8.

Not only that, but it’s actually getting an English dub. I was pretty surprised, since none of the others have gotten a dub (and it’s a rarity for visual novels in general), but it seems like they’re going all out for this release.

(If you prefer to pay with the Japanese voice acting, that will also be an option.)

Anonymous;Code is the most recent entry in the Science Adventure series, which also includes Chaos;Head and Chaos;Child, Steins;Gate and Steins;Gate 0, and Robotics;Notes and Robotics;Notes DaSH.

It seems like it’s generally recommended to have played all of them before Anonymous;Code (though maybe not DaSH, since I’ve seen it classified as a spin-off), so I have my work cut out for me.

Occultic;Nine also fits in there somewhere, but it’s an incomplete light novel series with an anime adaptation of debatable quality and an unlocalized visual novel adaptation that was supposed to get an expanded port with additional story content, but that was cancelled. If you specifically remember Occultic;Nine not being part of the Science Adventure series, it’s not a Mandela effect, but rather a retcon. It’s part of the series now, and apparently relevant to Anonymous;Code just like the others. Maybe I’ll give the anime another try.

Getting back to the matter at hand, you might be a bit wary of Anonymous;Code because of the poor state Chaos;Head Noah was in when it launched in English last year. However, the translator for this one seems to have a good track record, so we shouldn’t run into those same problems.

Are you looking forward to Anonymous;Code?

Chaos;Head Noah / Chaos;Child Double Pack Localization Confirmed

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Mar 112022
 

It’s no delusion, our hopes have come true, the Chaos;Head Noah / Chaos;Child Double Pack released for the Switch is being localized!

After it was teased a few weeks ago, Spike Chunsoft officially announced it yesterday.

The double pack will be released on October 7, with a steelbook launch edition also available to order.

Not only will this be the first time Chaos;Head receives an official English translation, Chaos;Head Noah is the expanded re-release that added significantly more content and is said to be improved in every way. My understanding is that this version is based on the PlayStation release of Noah, which censored some of the more gruesome sections, but it should still be an excellent visual novel.

(The launch edition also includes lingerie costume DLC for the girls in Chaos;Head Noah, except for Seira, whose costume is not included in the western release.)

I played Chaos;Head with the fan translation last October and loved it, so I’m absolutely picking up this new release.

Now, Chaos;Child came out in English a few years ago (despite the questionable decision of translating only the sequel of an untranslated game) and I actually started my Vita copy last year after I finished Chaos;Head, so now I’ll need to decide if I want to finish that or wait for the double pack since I’m still near the beginning. As far as I know, it’s the exact same version, but since the original Chaos;Child translation apparently has some parts that just… aren’t translated… maybe we can hope they’ll fix that for the Switch version?

Either way, I’ll pick up the double back for Noah, at least.

I don’t know what’s up with this recent trend of games people said would never be localized suddenly getting localization announcements, but I’m delighted by it and I hope Yakuza Kenzan and Ishin are next. (Seriously. The Great Ace Attorney, the Crossbell games, and now Chaos;Head? If those are possible, Kenzan and Ishin definitely are.)

Are you planning to pick up the Chaos;Head Noah / Chaos;Child Double Pack? And more importantly, whose eyes are those eyes?

Chaos;Head Noah and Chaos;Child Bundle Announced for Japan

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Nov 122021
 

When I played and reviewed the visual novel Chaos;Head this October, I mentioned how unfortunate it is that there is no completed fan translation for the updated re-release, Chaos;Head Noah.

Well, maybe we shouldn’t rule out the possibility of an official translation just yet.

In an interview with Dengeki, translated here by Gematsu, Makoto Asada from MAGES. spoke about three things.

Anonymous;Code has been delayed to 2022, Mystereet is being ported while its sequel is put on hold indefinitely, and Chaos;Head Noah will be bundled together with Chaos;Child in a new release set for February 2022.

That last one definitely caught my attention.

Since Chaos;Head Noah isn’t available on modern systems, they decided a package containing it and its sequel would be the best way to make it available to more players.

Of course, this is just for Japan. There’s no reason to believe this means they’ll finally translate Chaos;Head. However, if you had asked me a week ago, I would have said chances of Chaos;Head Noah being localized were next to nothing, because they wouldn’t devote resources to translating a game available on nothing more modern than a Vita, even though the creator said in 2018 it was possible.

But now, with a new release coming for modern platforms? This is the best chance we have of getting Chaos;Head Noah in English. Do you think it will happen?

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