Trivia / Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Koei)

• Bad Export for You: If you don't read Japanese or Mandarin, Koei will screw you over. English versions of the series are few and far in between. Even if they exist, the expansions (or "power kits") will almost never be released in English.
  • The fifth and twelfth games listed below were released to the US in 2017 and 2018. However, these were the Japanese versions only, meaning that fans needed to either be literate in Japanese, or were lucky enough to find an English-language mod.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Good luck trying to buy the older games legally in this current time and age. Even if you can buy them, there's no guarantee that your system has backward compatibility capable of running the games. Koei itself has seldom expressed interest in updating the games for re-release in languages other than Japanese.
• Multi-Disc Work: The PC-98 and DOS versions usually have two or three floppies, respectively.
• No Export for You: The fifth and twelfth installments have never been released outside of Japan and it's unlikely that they'll get a re-release.
• Schedule Slip: After XI, the release speed of the series slowed dramatically. XII was released more than 5 years later with no release outside of Japan, while XIII was released 4 years after XII. When compared to its direct predecessor in terms of gameplay (X), the delay was more than 10 years.

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