Trivia / Koudelka

• Executive Meddling: Hiroki Kikuta, director of Koudelka, wanted to make the game much more Survival Horror in nature; the rest of Sacnoth (ex-Square employees) wanted to make something closer to Final Fantasy. The resulting game was an unhappy compromise between the two clashing gameplay styles.
• Multi-Disc Work: Koudelka was released on four CDs, as it was common for larger games on the console.
• No Dub for You: Turned on its head: it's Japanese who don't get the dub. In the original Japanese version, the characters speak English (because the story happens in Wales, United Kingdom) and it has Japanese subtitles. During the localization process, instead of translating the subtitles, they just removed it altogether.
• No Export for You: The various media related to Koudelka (manga sequel, drama CD, light novel retelling of the game) were never released outside Japan.
• Vaporware: In 2015, publisher Console Classics announced a port of Koudelka for Steam. Unfortunately, nothing ever came of it.
• What Could Have Been: If Koudelka had been successful, three sequels would've been worked on.
  • Koudelka 2 was going to feature the Paris World Expo of 1900. Visiting the basement at the event, Koudelka would soon find herself battling lost spirits once more. Similar to what Hiroki Kikuta had done in England to study how to portray Wales, he had also gone to Paris and Belgium for the task.
  • Koudelka 3 would be in the United States, more specifically 1973′s Chicago. Rodmell Koudelka, grandchild of Koudelka after her daughter Amelia left for America, is a teacher of cultural anthropology at the University of Chicago. The spirits of people who died during the Vietnam war are returning, resulting in mysterious murders. Rodmell receives help resolving this situation from Roger Bacon, who is now wearing a modern-day suit.
  • Koudelka 4 - 1984, Nara, Japan. While visiting a religious scientist from a friend, Rodmell finds himself involved with the case of someone’s life being targeted. Ying-yang masters, shikigamis, and more are the enemies in this story, while the mysteries surrounding the Asuka stones and streets of Kyoto are explored.

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