Customer Ratings & Reviews

Like many, I was extremely excited to hear that Spike Chunsoft was localizing Chaos;Head Noah. Surely they wouldn't make unnecessary changes to the script, and would ensure that this experience was everything that it should be, being the origin of a visual novel franchise as prolific as the Sci;Adv franchise. We were all in good hands. ...not. Not only is this release buggy (the true ending doesn't properly trigger either), but the localization is a shoddy mess. Terms that make no sense are used in place of terms used in the original script because they aren't "politically correct" enough for whoever was localizing the game at the time. If that wasn't laughable enough, the localization staff had the *audacity* to justify the changes in script and terminology in completely unnecessary "editor's notes" to the game's respective terms, boiling down some changes to "no one wants to hear this language used" or "this term is offensive and hasn't been used by any forward-thinking persons since 2002". If you're reading this, you probably want to play these games as they were intended. Obviously there was no getting around the censorship, as these ports use the censored PS3 versions of the games as a base, and I can live with that. I can even live without the removed costume. What I cannot live with is a corrupt localization staff using modern political talking points as an excuse to butcher what should have been a release worth celebrating for this franchise. If you still want to play these games in English on Switch... you can't without buying this. But I'd rather not play this than give Spike Chunsoft my money for such a terrible breach of artistic integrity when localizing these games. Do not buy this. And do not forget what Spike and their localizers did to this. This release is a waste of your time, and should not be accepted.