Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-73.220.89.40-20150318192417/@comment-26574811-20151231084541

Severstal wrote: @Vcharng

Best not to make such charges too soon. I have played Teitoku and Kurogane, and Teitoku (the version I played anyway, IIRC it was III, on a Playstation I) also allows play as the Allies.

Anyway, you are right that about 10 or 20 years ago, if they even made a similar game they'll have included Allied ships from the start, maybe even given them prime place, to avoid controversy. But we are in 2015 and not 2005 and over the past ten years the correlation of forces between left and right have shifted. While the "left" is still certainly powerful, they are definitely weaker and also less eager to call foul at every shadow. KanColle reflects this.

For your other post, I'll point out that having a pet project, using units that won't be very useful to the Navy (due to limited shipping) anyway or having different views of what's best for the nation does not mean animosity surpassing that directed towards their enemies. Yes, Teitoku and Kurogana both allows playing as Allies, nevertheless, Tetoku got disputed as imperialism (and even got fined in China), while Kurogane didn't. So the problem is having a WWII game that allows playing as Axis, not having Allies or not. So the only way out for KC is to make the war we are fighting "not WWII", or "we are not Axis". Letting Allied ships fight "WITH" Japanese ship girls would achive so.

That's what I was talking about in my previous post. The problem is not being able to play as Allied or not, the problem is to be able to play purely as Axis in WWII. Kurogane series, at least WSG, WSG2(P) and WSC3, feature completely fictional storylines. In WSC3 you play as a fleet commander of a fictional nation, that invades the whole world from Antartica; In WSG2, you are also from a fictional nation, but you fight with the rest of the world, against rebels from your own nation. Both went well in Japan with no disputes.

I will remind you one last time: Unlike some Japanese over-sensitive leftist thinks, KC is NOT a right-wing game. Thus, it does NOT reflect any political shift in Japan. Remember, when KC project started (in 2012), the center-left Democratic Party was still in charge.

About IJA and IJN, I wouldn't say their mutual hate completely surpass that toward US or UK. Instead, I would rather say they are "enemies that don't shoot each other on the battlefield, they fight by other means".