I am completely of the opinion that dating sim games are the reason that I was put on this earth. I mean, any one of those girls in ANY of those games is better than any given girl in real life. I don’t think any man (or woman) can disagree with me on that point, aside from the whole, you know, sex thing.

Bloody Bride is a pretty old Playstation game, which is painfully obvious once you discover the lack of analog support and the ungodly load times (which, I later found, is the fault of my crappy Playstation). But the whole premise of the game makes up for it, I think. You’re a VAMPIRE! And you come to earth in human form because you need blood from a girl with a certain type of aura, to come into your manhood, or whatever. But the blood isn’t worth anything if it isn’t given willingly, so you have to seduce her and stuff. Hence the dating aspect. You also have to walk around and fight in battles sometimes, for reasons I don’t fully comprehend. Anyway, all the girls are cute and stuff, but I’d rather go with those helper demons of yours. That Misty is just too yummy!

This patch is in PPF format, so you will need PPF-O-MATIC 3 to apply it.

This patch is nearly complete and totally playable. The only stuff that isn’t translated is stuff that doesn’t actually appear in the game (to anyone’s knowledge), so that’s pretty cool. At least as far as text goes.

The movies aren’t subtitled in the main patch (hosted here on RHDN), that’s a separate (180MB) PPF patch, which sadly is no longer hosted on the project’s site. Instead, please download this xdelta patch (136MB) that includes both the text and movie patch.

Imadoki no Vampire: Bloody Bride English Patch

So in conclusion, uh, it’s pretty much complete, except for a couple Kanji. Pretty much. Version 1.01 translates the elusive MAGROM.TXT, which makes things almost almost complete. Patching over an already-patched ISO is not recommended.

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