X-Change 3

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X-Change 3

Developer(s)	^JP Crowd
Publisher(s)	^NA Peach Princess
Series	X-Change series
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows
Release date	^JP June 25, 2004 ^NA August 7, 2006
Genre(s)	Eroge, Visual Novel
Mode(s)	Single Player
Rating(s)	18+
Media	DVD-ROM
System requirements	Minimum: 128 MB RAM, Pentium 2 or AMD equivalent processor, 1.6 GB of Hard Disk space, Japanese non-Unicode fonts enabled Recommended: 300 MHz processor

X-Change 3 is a Japanese erotic game produced by Crowd and distributed in English by Peach Princess. This game is the first in the series to be released on DVD-ROM, and the first to have the English release censored. It is the final chapter in the trilogy.

1 Plot
2 Reception
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Plot

In the third game, you play as Takuya Aiharn for the last time. Kōji, a male student you had an encounter with in the first game, and who was in the chemistry club the previous game, is still trying to get Takuya's female side in love with him. He secretly gets Asami Satoh to make more of the sex-change potion and proceeds to trick Takuya into drinking it.

[edit] Reception

On July 22, 2006, Peter Payne admitted that Peach Princess had censored the English release of X-Change 3^{[citation needed]}. A total of seven graphics had been removed from the game due to them being of a lolicon nature. Two other graphics were edited to remove tears and other details from a rape scene. An unknown number of speech and sound effects were removed, and the amount of dialog changed during the translation/conversion is unknown. After backlash from fans of the series, the company has claimed that they had no possible option to release the full game claiming legal reasons,^[1] despite having sold games of a similar nature, and continuing to do so^{[citation needed]}.

While the administrators have said that they are willing to give a refund to those that feel they were misled it should be noted that this is only a partial refund and there is no descript process of requesting it.

A petition was created by fans in hopes of an anti-censorship patch being released by the company. Peach Princess later released a patch restoring some of the content. The rape sequence was put back in unedited, but the lolicon content was still left out.