However with Touken Ranbu the game does not require to be played chronological because there really isn’t any ongoing story going on so anyone can just jump in and be bombarded with whatever nonsense is going on that month. With most localisation of mobile games story and events are at the base level, as in on day one of the localisation version the game that you are experiencing is the same as the Japanese day one version and you will have to wait until you get to certain points of the game’s development to get the improvements the OG game gets like better UI or quality of life stuff like “auto” and “skip” functions. I’ll leave my thoughts on the localisation last so I can concentrate on the way they decided to port Touken Ranbu. However there was always a steady community of fans dedicated to updating the wikia with translations and trivia behind the sword boys for others to understand and appreciate which kept the interest in the game alive. That was the only way I managed to continue on my quest to collect my swords.Īnyway interest seemed to dwindle in Touken Ranbu for the global front in these past years, most contents were “inaccessible” or not easy to access to those outside Japan like the Touken Ranbu Musicals, though stuff like the animes were easy to access thanks to simulcasts. Though there was one way to play Touken Ranbu if you were a foreigner and that was to download the mobile version of Touken Ranbu known as Touken Ranbu -Pocket-, accessible by using a Japanese App store account or downloading it from third party APK distributers like QooApp and APK Pure. This made many a global saniwa sad and became disinterested in playing.

It was hell trying to get enough servers ready to accommodate both Japanese players and the foreigners who bypassed the region lock.Īnyway, this worked a while until DMM cracked down, threatened to ban those who used VPN and made sure the cookie bypass was useless. Back in the early days, it was hard to get into a server to start playing the game that you had to wait like months until a new server was open. Thanks to the community and Touken Ranbu wikia there were means to bypass this region block through altering your internet cookies to seem like you are from Japan or to use VPN. Now for those who weren’t on the scene back in 2015/2016, DMM, the website that hosted Touken Ranbu, was very strict with foreigners using their website to play games.

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