Taisho x Alice All in One Is on the eShop, But English Speakers Have to Pay Extra

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Past the recognizable first-party titles like Super Mario Odyssey and Kirby and the Forgotten Land, the Nintendo Switch eShop is filled with a plethora of unique and eclectic games appealing to a wide variety of different niches. From extreme sports like Byteparrot's Slopecrashers to visually distinctive and thought-provoking experiences like The Artful Escape, the eShop contains plenty of hidden gems lying in wait beyond the big-name releases. Now, a recent release from developer Prototype, Taisho x Alice All in One, looks to bring a new spin to a handful of classic fairy tales.

Taisho x Alice is a trilogy of visual novels first released on Steam that takes players into a world inspired by the classic Alice in Wonderland stories, but presenting them with an «otome»-style twist bringing in characters like Cinderella and Gretel from other fairy tales with many of the characters seeing gender swaps. While the visual novels had previously been exclusive to Steam since their 2019 release, Prototype recently released All in One as a compilation of the three titles. However, fans are noticing a strange quirk with the release requiring fans to pay extra for the game's English translation.

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Fans first noticed the strange exclusion following Taisho x Alice's release yesterday with the base game bafflingly not including the English-language translation packed in. Taisho x Alice's Switch eShop page lists the base game at $53.99 with the English text released as a separate add-on for $4.99. However, also listed when searching for Taisho x Alice in the eShop is a bundle containing both the game and the English text add-on priced only $1 more than the game's base price at