Clannad is a famous name in an infamous genre. The genre, often referred to as “dating sims”, is usually about meeting people (often girls) and trying to develop positive relationships with them while an interesting story unfolds both as a result of your relationships and sometimes simply as a background story to drive the motivation. The more notorious of the games in this genre tend to reward the player’s efforts towards maintaining good relationships with scenes of a sexual nature, but most of them (especially ones on consoles) do not. Instead, the reward is more story. As a result, the stories tend to be pretty good in this type of game.
Clannad has long since been available on the PS2, the PSP, and even the Xbox 360, but this new version has been announced for the PS3. This new version seems to be a retelling of the same story, but with HD visuals and Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound. Fans of the genre should enjoy the upgraded fidelity in both the visuals and the audio. In addition to this, to make the PS3 version more valuable, there will also be a spin-off story available for download on the PSN. Between the current story and the new story, it is reported to take around 200 hours to make it through every branch of the story. And you thought RPGs took a long time to complete!
The Japanese release date has not yet been announced for this title. Also, we are around 99% certain that it’s not going to make it to the US, or any other region outside of Japan.
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October 10th, 2010 - 3:08 PM
y cant they ever released it on u.s thats not fair i love this anime but its all in Japanese even the after story plzz make it english need a dub version
November 19th, 2010 - 9:58 PM
Ditto form what the first guy said, why. I was honestly looking forward to actually buying this game first once I get a PS3 but know this sucks. As a major fan of every single episode of Clannad I must know why or if it is being shipped to U.S. when?
January 8th, 2011 - 9:40 AM
I agree to these two guys. I have watched the animes Clannad, Air and Kanon (2006) but I haven’t played any of their games/visual novels yet BECAUSE THEY’RE NOT AVAILABLE FROM WHERE I AM, and guess what? I live in South-east Asia! I want to play them because I want to know all the alternative endings. I think they’re probably not shipping them to the U.S. because they may have perceived it as a business risk. But they should at least allow international orders and have an english patch; where the vocals are japanese while anything written is in english. =D