Onion Games Taking Survey for Return of Chulip, Rule of Rose
One of the nicer things about gaming in recent years is seeing it take the first tentative steps towards preserving its past. Not in a collector-y way, but rather in guaranteeing that more and more titles are available to play rather than stranded on low-print-run discs running for hundreds or even thousands of dollars. It’s weird to think that a title like Chulip, that released at $15.00 after getting delayed for, literally, years by its US publisher, then went on to haunt bargain bins nationwide for more years afterwards, somehow sells for $150 – $300 or more today, and a sealed Rule of Rose (which was released by Atlus so had a built-in audience, selling out relatively quickly) gets into four figures. There’s no reasonable way to legally play these games nowadays, but that doesn’t have to remain true thanks to the Japanese rights holder, Onion Games, being interested in reviving them. The company has released a survey to see what its fans want, and it covers a couple of interesting topics in the short twelve-question run.