D3 Publisher and Asian online retailer Play Asia have announced plans to bring the dungeon RPG Omega Labyrinth Life to the Asian market with English & Traditional Chinese language support.
The retailer revealed this not long after D3 Publisher posted its latest gameplay trailer for the upcoming title. The Asian release will be available uncensored and uncut on the Nintendo Switch, with a “family friendly” version available on the PlayStation 4. You can view the page links below if you wish to pre-order the games immediately! It will be available to ship out on 1st August 2019, the same day as the Japanese release.
Nintendo Switch Standard Edition
Nintendo Switch Limited Edition
PlayStation 4 Limited Edition
Omega Labyrinth Life‘s limited edition will include a Collector’s Box, a physical copy of the game, a 3D Mousepad, a Steelbook for Nintendo Switch owners and a Metal Case Futurepack for PlayStation 4 owners, an Alternative Art Cover, a Limited Item which has yet to be revealed, and also downloadable content including limited DLC while supplies last and pre-order DLC.
Omega Labyrinth Life is the third installment for the franchise. The first title was released exclusively to the PlayStation Vita and the second was released on both PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita. The second title, known as Omega Labyrinth Z, was initially planned for release in the western markets under UK distributor PQube.
Despite being approved by both PEGI & ESRB rating boards the publisher was unable to release Omega Labyrinth Z due to Sony Europe & America prohibiting its release at the very last second, not long after the UK & Ireland’s VSC Rating Board rejected the release. The game was also rejected classification in Germany, Australia & New Zealand, but those territories generally don’t affect the release of many titles. Sony eventually had their own updated guidelines towards Japanese & Western developers in order to tone down the fanservice, which led to numerous controversies like a game mode being removed from Senran Kagura Burst Re:Newal to removing a mechanic that led to game-breaking bugs in Mary Skelter 2.
As such for the third installment Omega Labyrinth Life has been revamped for the PlayStation 4 release; renamed as Labyrinth Life as well. The PS4 version differs from the Switch version for the following content changes:
- “Faint in Agony Flowering” System
- Includes only “Normal” illustrations
- Scenes are skipped after the “Normal” illustrations are displayed (players acquire a fixed amount of experience points)
- “Oppai Appraisal” System
- After performing an “Oppai Appraisal,” the scene automatically skips (the object placed in between the breasts does not appear in the game)
- “Oppai Rock-Paper-Scissors” System
- Play rock-paper-scissors with Labyrinth Life-exclusive scenes
- “Hot Springs” Events
- Includes every character’s hot springs illustration (the amount of steam in the illustrations is partially different from Omega Labyrinth Life)
- Includes the “Illustration Zoom-In / Zoom-Out” feature
- “Holy Flower Flora”-Dedicated Events
- Includes “Holy Flower Flora”-dedicated event illustrations
- Scenes are skipped after the illustrations are displayed
- PTA (Pai Touch Action) (character illustration touch gameplay and reactions)
- Not supported
- Gallery Feature
- View the illustrations included in Labyrinth Life
The chest size changes, as well as the ‘Seductive Oppai’, remain the same across both versions. Content in the opening movie and ending partially differs in each version depending on the illustration. Labyrinth Life only includes the character calls for some characters on the title screen after starting up the game. The included characters, character skills, monsters items, story, dungeon, difficulty settings, etc. are the same between each version.
D3 Publisher had also brought Bullet Girls Phantasia over to Asian territories with English & Traditional Chinese support for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita back in August 2018. Bullet Girls Phantasia would have been another controversial case had the game been released in the west around the same time as Omega Labyrinth Z.
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