This is general Kud news and speculation. It is not directly related to the translation.
Kud Wafter will be ported to PSP (not Vita)as the tentatively titled “Kud Wafter Conbaateddo Edishon” (yes Kud Engrish) Besides being all-ages this version will include new events and CGs. It also will have many PSP features such as : the ability to move BGM to your Memory Stick and listen to it without the game, a “Memory Disk” function to play the game without the disc, and a screenshot function. I don’t have a PSP but this is quite tempting!
Source : Akiba Jigoku!
Update: Dengeki Online has more visuals, this time a logo with the title romanized (not the hiragana used in the magazine that implied engrish titling) and some screen shots. As said above the engrish title was tentative and magazines tend to be behind so this is probably more accurate.
Speculation
However I suspect KudWaf is going to end up fragmented like Tomoyo After. For Tomoyo the H-edition was first-press only then an expanded consumer port was released. That PS2 port was the definitive version until it was backported as an all-ages memorial edition five years later. The 18+ edition was never reissued. Considering Key is emphasizing all-ages versions of even Kanon and Air I would not be surprised if the same happened to dear Kud. Hopefully Key will reissue Kud PC in a normal (18+) or memorial (all-ages) edition within the next two years before it becomes too rare. I know this sounds glum but this is my prediction based on previous product cycles. I will support any PC edition in print when the patch is released.
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July 27, 2012 at 12:07 pm
Madoka
This doesn’t surprise me all to much, the only thing really about this is its almost assured to turn back into the all ages, look at some of keys most recent title- Little busters, originally released as a All Ages, it did great, EX version, didn’t do bad but being the second release didn’t do aswell due to people don’t wish to rebuy a game for some 18+ content, Rewrite again is a all ages release, clannad was all ages. It’s a given by any key fan that… their H-scenes are… lets say… below decent, key are great for emotional story lines and most find the H-scenes never fit in, hinder the story or they just don’t like there not well constructed, this of course might have exception to games like Tomoyo After which was really, just a pure H game (well the 18+ was, no games should have so many H-scenes one after each other), Key never being good with these don’t seem fussed for them anymore, but there is also the fact that there all ages releases sell really well in comparison,because of course its for any age but also alot buy them because, some are new releases (updating a old title like Air or Kanon) keeping them fresh in today’s world making people happy, but also people like the fact its so story focused, in summary (i got off topic a little), it is sad but i do believe kud wafter will go the same way as the rest, all ages! I liked little busters all ages, i only wanted EX due to it having more story arc’s (sadly i never got my hands on a hard copy of EX. i love hard copies ><) but i do think all ages games are better, unless the game was made to be 18+, which kud wafter (and for that Tomoyo after) was made to be, so it will be kind of sad to see us loose this title 😦
July 29, 2012 at 7:08 am
NekoPalta
Normally I wouldn’t like very much them taking out content from the original name, but I’d like to hope that this PSP edition goes out well for them, so they can make (like you said) a third time a 3rd (and even better) PC game (+18) to recover the all the things and include the new things added in the PSP edition.
I really hope they don’t make Kud look bad, that’s what I find most important.
THanks for this info, it’s interesting knowing little Kud is still known in the world 😀
Well, i lost track of what i was saying, so that would be it xD
Thanks again, and hope everything is going ok 😉
Let’s pray for kud’s safety~
August 17, 2012 at 12:42 am
Madoka
Well kud seems to be quite the icon to some so hopefully she wont die out to soon on us 😀
Only thing i fear about these 18+ Games is they sorta change the characters to much, like in Tomoyo After she was practically a whore, i gather they are 18+ games very focused on providing H-scenes to favourite characters but large change in personality sometimes makes me feel a little sad and missing the original. I suppose its just one thing to deal with when playing these ones though
August 17, 2012 at 7:31 pm
NekoPalta
It’s true, they changed the look we had on Tomoyo very much in “Tomoyo After”, but it’s not so bad, looking at it that she really loves Tomoya way much than we can imagine.
And I really hope and think that Kud will be very kawaii even in this game, even with the +18 content, I think her personality it’s always gonna be her and we will enjoy it very much ❤
Let's just wait and say thanks for the hard work that's being done for the game 😀