It may have sold over 400,000 copies in one week when it launched in Japan, but that hasn't stopped Tales of Zestitia from getting caught in a storm of controversy.
The trailer that we've embedded is for a post-game DLC that centres around one of the game's characters, Alisha, who's also the primary cause of Japanese players giving the title a low user review score on Amazon, after bombarding its page with negative comments.
As it happens, Alisha doesn't actually play too big a role in the release, even though players state that the game's promotional material made it look like she was an important factor in the story. As such, upon hearing that the title's post-launch DLC would be all about Alisha, some users vented their rage online. Fortunately, publisher Bandai Namco recently announced that the download would release for free over its first week of being available.
It all sounds a bit crazy to us, but we're sure there's good reason for such a widespread backlash to occur. Hopefully when the role-playing game finally releases in the West later this year, we can avoid this sort of thing. Are you still looking forward to the newest Tales instalment? Run into us and start a battle in the comments section below.
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People have always been somewhat suspicious of DLC. I'm usually one to give it the benefit of the doubt myself, but when a publisher advertises something (in this case a character) as being an important part of a release and then it turns out it isn't, but wait, here's that thing we advertised only now as the main focus of our DLC, well, I'm not surprised there's a backlash even if in the end it's much ado about nothing.
If they're giving away the DLC for free I'm not too sure why there's any fuss over this?
@SteveButler2210 Waifus, innit.
@SteveButler2210 They advertised this character as a huge central part of the story in every publication (she's even featured on the box) yet she apparently is absent for like 75% of the whole story.
She appears at the start, leaves and then comes back right at the end.
She is also not playable in the proper game so alot of people are mad at the rather shady advertising of it all.
Japanese people are just weird, nice people, but weird.
Meh, we get everything at once when it comes west bound. So I'm not mad at all about this.
Just like Kate Upton isn't really in the mobile F2P game at all...
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