Pain faceplants on the Japanese PlayStation Store as…

One of the best things about creating a cheap downloadable title has to be the diminished risk of releasing a dud on a global scale. There’s plenty of text and voice to translate in Pain but there’s no discs to press with region controls, unique packaging to print, and localized marketing to think up. If it flops in Japan, it seems that Idol Minds can call it a relatively safe “no biggie”.

The extent of the changes seem to begin and end with the title. I guess we’ve been bastardizing the titles of Japanese games for years so it’s only fair that they get to rename the perfectly, suitably named Pain as Mr. … Pain.