Japanese Niche Games Deals & Discussion Thread 4.0

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Welcome to the Japanese niche games deals and discussion thread!  Feel free to talk about local and import Japanese games here.  Our goal is to maintain a thread dedicated to active deals on niche games including RPGs, Visual Novels (VN), Shoot'em ups (Shmups), Musou, etc.  Also maintained are pre-orders for standard, limited and collector's edition games with key release dates provided.

I've wikified the thread to make it more friendly and open to others that can actively update with important information. You can find the wiki post directly below this one.

NOTE:  Please, leave the censorship discussion away from this thread.  It's common for japanese games to have questionable content outside of the country.  We want to keep discussions to the game itself and not about cultural/societal tolerance.

A message from Thorbahn:

Our CAG Japanese Niche Games Thread also has a community on PS4, where you can interact and game with other members of the thread.

Our moderators are: Draekon, Las_Hole, and Waffleswanton

You can basically friend any of our members, or any moderator, and you will be able to request to join the community under "Communities friends are in" tab, and a mod will approve your request.

You can also leave your PSN ID in the thread, saying you want to join, and we can invite you directly as well.

As always, have fun and enjoy your stay!

 
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Fragems said:
Anyone know if there is much of a difference between the PS3 and PS4 versions of Aegis of Earth: Protonovus Assault. PS3 version has been dropping pretty steadily recently sitting at $17.28 right now with a lot of (LN) AWD listings for $14.92. Really tempted to pick it up but I'm not sure if I would be better off holding out for the PS4 version to drop to around $20.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B017BB90D8/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condition=used
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I'm not so sure but since this is a Tower Defense game and all, I was thinking it'd be a game for me to play on Vita. And 'cause we love Vita. That's $21 on AWD right now; just bought one. Seems most people like it?

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PS4/PS Vita Exclusive JRPG Ys VIII Gets New Screenshots on Famitsu: Shows New Characters

Three new characters, Kilgore, Curran and Alison. On top of that, we also get a glimpse of the monster “Master Kong.”

Xenoblade Chronicles Hits the Wii U Virtual Console Tommorow

Xenoblade Chronicles will be launching at a price point of 19.99 USD
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SgtWiggles said:
Might be interested in King of Fighters if it has online

As far as Xenoblade goes, I wonder what that will do to the price of physical copies
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Funny how people are complaining about no trailer for Ys VIII.

For Xenoblade...I dunno, the markets have been flooded with the International versions and Gamestop will look even sillier for selling it for $65 without Power Up Rewards. If it drops I'll regret buying a copy from AWD for $40...granted it did turn out to be an original version with the reversible slip cover and manual.

 
Fragems said:
Anyone know if there is much of a difference between the PS3 and PS4 versions of Aegis of Earth: Protonovus Assault. PS3 version has been dropping pretty steadily recently sitting at $17.28 right now with a lot of (LN) AWD listings for $14.92. Really tempted to pick it up but I'm not sure if I would be better off holding out for the PS4 version to drop to around $20.
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sovereignNX-73811 said:
I'm not so sure but since this is a Tower Defense game and all, I was thinking it'd be a game for me to play on Vita. And 'cause we love Vita. That's $21 on AWD right now; just bought one. Seems most people like it?
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I actually enjoyed it a decent amount (Quit like 2 missions before the end, but may go back), but there are a couple caveats.

1) As the game progresses, you get missions to bring one of your cities up in happiness. This shit goes down quickly once you start getting more than a couple of towns and it's rather annoying. Why? Because happiness is tied directly into incoming population after completing a mission. Those missions are stupid and it kills my drive to play because I don't like seeing stats go down that I raised up to begin with. (For the record, you can buy a building that raises happiness and just pay the city for happiness, but the fact that it's so simple is dumb. Also upgrading those buildings is worthless)

2) It doesn't have typical modes that you see in tower defense games like endless or challenge modes. It's just the campaign. Once you get your city up to snuff near the end of the campaign, any difficulty you occasionally run into is completely gone. This leads to little replay value beyond a certain point outside of completionist/trophy whore value.

3) Load times on the PS4 are artificial for the most part. LET ME SKIP ANIMATIONS THAT YOU CONSTANTLY MAKE ME VIEW AFTER EVERY GOD DAMNED BATTLE. There's only like one thing I can skip and it's only a quart of the bucket you have to wade through... constantly.

Game also lacks enemy types. Sure each type has a couple variations, but eh. Bosses are kinda fun though. Which make up like half of the enemy types. So I'd say $20 is the absolute most I can recommend it for, but $10 or $15 isn't a bad price.

 
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nitrosmob said:
That White Album link for Steam Greenlight doesn't work. I opened my eyes and was like White Album...I need that since I saw the anime adaption. Think it also needs the 18+ version, but that is something else. The thing is I don't know if anyone licensed it.....seems kind of weird is all, and I hope that Greenlight page comes back up, but honestly I don't remember any licensor getting the VN.
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I hope it was for White Album 2, didn't really like the first one's anime
 
nitrosmob said:
That White Album link for Steam Greenlight doesn't work. I opened my eyes and was like White Album...I need that since I saw the anime adaption. Think it also needs the 18+ version, but that is something else. The thing is I don't know if anyone licensed it.....seems kind of weird is all, and I hope that Greenlight page comes back up, but honestly I don't remember any licensor getting the VN.
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I hope it was for White Album 2, didn't really like the first one's anime
 
Sorry to the folks that have to read me yapping about this twice, but I thought that maybe the people here might know what's going on.  I've found my internet searches on the subject to be less than helpful.

So I fired up Hand of Fate again on the PS4, and noticed that there was an update.  I downloaded it, and found that there were a number of changes.  Mostly, that Nymphs of the Sweetwoods, Time Heals, and probably some other favorite cards that I can't remember are nowhere to be found.  Every time anybody asked the developer about it, they'd say "We didn't take any cards out, they've just been moved further down on the unlock table."  Well, the thing is I already had all of the cards unlocked, so telling me it unlocks later on doesn't make any sense.

Does anyone here know what the deal is with the current version of Hand of Fate?

 
Nothing371 said:
Is Nights of Azure worth buying?
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I'm somewhat into Chapter 2 right now and somewhat enjoying the story. At least i think i am, there's a good deal of mystery and yuri to keep me interested, but if it goes no where. I will be upset. Though the gameplay itself is really dull and the level up mechanics are dumb. A straight up XP system would have been better.

 
Hatsune Miku: Project Diva X HD for PS4 Launches August 25 in Japan
http://gematsu.com/2016/04/hatsune-miku-project-diva-x-hd-ps4-launches-august-25-japan
https://youtu.be/WhE55OjL4p0
 
Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness Hands-On: A Harried Commander And Combatant
http://www.siliconera.com/2016/04/27/star-ocean-integrity-faithlessness-hands-harried-commander-combatant/
https://youtu.be/29DZ0O0Jchw
 
Sengoku Basara: Sanada Yukimura-Den Second Gameplay Video

http://gematsu.com/2016/04/sengoku-basara-sanada-yukimura-den-second-gameplay-video
https://youtu.be/Eq_yGnB-jUA
 
New Japanese 3DS Themes This Week Feature Pokémon And One Piece
http://www.siliconera.com/2016/04/27/new-japanese-3ds-themes-week-feature-pokmon-one-piece/
https://youtu.be/TJbkp7lsmB0
https://youtu.be/WBzzxE6x1hI

 
Pokkén Tournament Is Getting A Pikachu Hori Pro Pad In Japan
http://www.siliconera.com/2016/04/27/pokkn-tournament-getting-pikachu-hori-pro-pad-japan/
 
Everything Has Its Place In Grand Kingdom
http://www.siliconera.com/2016/04/27/everything-place-grand-kingdom/
 
3D Thunder Blade Is One Of Sega 3D Classics Collection’s Gems
http://www.siliconera.com/2016/04/27/3d-thunder-blade-one-sega-3d-classics-collections-gems/
 
The Four Storm DLC for Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 Coming May 10
http://nichegamer.com/2016/04/27/the-four-storm-dlc-for-naruto-shippuden-ultimate-ninja-storm-4-coming-may-10/
https://youtu.be/9t3qF1PMAo8

 
One Piece: Burning Blood PS4 and ClaDun Sengoku Demos Now Available in Japan
http://gematsu.com/2016/04/one-piece-burning-blood-ps4-cladun-sengoku-demos-now-available-japan
 
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Bought Digimon on the golden week sale. Playing it right now. I love the menu designs. Both your main menu and battle menu are pretty cool. Enjoying it for the most part but have a few gripes.

The translation is a bit shoddy here and there. It's not SAO bad, but it's clearly not Bamco's best work. A few lines in dialogue seem out of place without any transition.

The digimon only make noise when they use their special attack. It makes battles seem a bit eerily quiet. Even a growl would be preferable to the silence.

The main character is a boring selfinsert. At least she talks in battle but other than that it's just ... and head nods.
 

Nokia and your character look far too similar. They should at least change her hair color or not have them both with similar length tied hair.

How quickly you just accept the situation and start working as a "cyber sleuth" is a bit weird.

I don't understand why text messages aren't sorted by person. Having all your texts in one screen just seems like a silly bad design choice.

Oh and about how it runs.

I swear there was some bad artifacting on the first cutscene for a second and then the bitrate caught up.

It looks good enough but there are some jaggies on the character models. Hard to notice though. The way dialogue is handled is like Bravely Default where you just see the character models talking in a side to side view. I think it works really well and suits it. Would like to see more games do this over static images. You get a lot of good emotes out of the characters without worrying about designing the background.

People mentioned loading times but it's not too bad. Pretty short loading times overall. I may have noticed if I played the PS4 version but it's perfectly acceptable on the vita.

It does feel a little bit sticky after you talk to someone. Like a split second before you can move your character again. This might just be how it's designed but I'm used to moving immediately after closing a text box.

Running animation is weird but kinda funny.

All that said, I am enjoying it a good deal. Gonna get back to playing now.

 
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daveydarko said:
Hatsune Miku: Project Diva X HD for PS4 Launches August 25 in Japan

http://gematsu.com/2016/04/hatsune-miku-project-diva-x-hd-ps4-launches-august-25-japan
https://youtu.be/WhE55OjL4p0
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Black Rose Valkyrie second trailer, Shinyamato Empire and Special Military Agency ACID details

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKDQPzNYY20

Genkai Tokki: Seven Pirates opening movie, World Map and Dungeon Exploration details

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArnI4X6oQEY

Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 Gets Update 1.04, Sexy DLC Bikinis, Better Pricing Policy: Screenshots Inside

Patch Notes

Dragon Quest Heroes II PS4, PS3, and PS Vita comparison videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms_KksQKsq0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKiikpZ8szQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6d2j3LHc_4

Ace Attorney 6 details Bracelet Power, Detective Memo

Mary Skelter details Nightmare Battles

PS4/PS Vita Exclusive JRPG Ys VIII Gets New Screenshots Showing Master Kong

Japan Votes for Their Favorite ‘Mon in “The Pokémon General Election”; Current Top 100 Revealed

Kingdom Hearts Concerts Announced for Japan This Year, World Tour in 2017

 
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Watch Terry, Kim, Mai, And More In Action In The King of Fighters XIV’s Latest Footage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_5X7fCi4-s

PS Vita Exclusive Reco Love Gets First Direct Feed Screenshots

Dynasty Warriors: Eiketsuden Japanese release date to be announced on May 12

Koei Tecmo will announce the release date and premiere first gameplay

Koei Tecmo Confirms Support for Nintendo NX and PlayStation VR

Total Sales for Dead or Alive Xtreme 3, Attack on Titan and More Announced by Koei Tecmo

Dead or Alive Xtreme 3: 190,000
Attack on Titan: 280,000
Atelier Sophie: Alchemist of the Mysterious Book: 170,000
Romance of the Three Kingdoms 13: 180,000

Anonymous;Code details Vatican Hacker Agent, Third Secret of Fatima & Gaudi Code

Caligula has over 500 potential party members

Befriend NPCs and form a party all your own.

Valkyrie Anatomia Officially Releases Today; Gets Launch Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I38-KInzdzs

Atelier studio Gust developing new IP

Nintendo Details Splatoon As Driving Factor Behind Wii U Hardware Sales And More

Romancing SaGa 2 English details, trailer - for iOS & Android

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUBDgeQRtA4

 
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Supplice said:
Nintendo Predicts to Ship Only 800,000 Wii U Units and 5 Million 3DS Units in Current Fiscal Year
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Supplice said:
Nintendo Details Splatoon As Driving Factor Behind Wii U Hardware Sales And More
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Wii U system sales forecasts magically drop off next year. For no reason guys, serious. There's no reason that Nintendo basically stopped developing games for it. It's a coincidence that people said that 12.5 million units were manufactured in 2012 and then production stopped.

The Wii U will be physically soldout when Zelda hits...

 
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So it just occurred to me that the way they're doing dlc releases for DOAX3 as patch updates, each time a new bikini is released, I'm gonna have to download a 200mb patch on top of the old updates. So by the end of the year the game will take up a few gb on my vita memory card even though I never use the dlc. This is just gonna snowball and the game is gonna take up too much of my limited space.

In related news http://gematsu.com/2016/04/atelier-sophie-attack-titan-dead-alive-xtreme-3-more-sales-numbers-revealed

 
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Finished up code realize last night. Are any of the other vns on Vita similar, Other than the otome factor? I loved pretty much all of the storylines, and the fact that there was quite a bit of action. Only thing I was a little disappointed with was how little animations there actually were. The story will probably end up as one of my all-time favorites.
 
Derextreme said:
Finished up code realize last night. Are any of the other vns on Vita similar, Other than the otome factor? I loved pretty much all of the storylines, and the fact that there was quite a bit of action. Only thing I was a little disappointed with was how little animations there actually were. The story will probably end up as one of my all-time favorites.
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I liked the main character in that one plus the side characters where fun. Unfortunately localized there isn't too many games similar to that (like say a general romance/adventure VN). We have murder mystery (Danganronpa games), VLR and Zero Escape 3 sometime for like puzzle/escape danger....type games, Two more otome games (Norn9 and Amnesia:Memories) which are also romance for sure...I haven't played them both so can't comment, but I've heard at least Amnesia is relatively weak story wise with a weak main character. Then there is sc-fi cool Steins:Gate. I think your best chance is Norn9 though I've heard the story isn't amazing cause of the way it's split out. I can't comment fully since I haven't played it yet.

I believe when we get Root Letter, that will be a good choice as it seems to be some romance/mystery game. Also Muv Luv games are coming out hopefully the end of the year, and those have a bit of everything and are widely considered some of the best VNs, so that will be interesting. Hopefully this helped and honestly I think I named off all the localized VNs heh and some future ones, though eventually Root Double is coming as a digital download for Vita, and I started playing the PC version, and it seems like a very interesting suspense, possible romance, survival, etc....game.

 
Derextreme said:
Finished up code realize last night. Are any of the other vns on Vita similar, Other than the otome factor? I loved pretty much all of the storylines, and the fact that there was quite a bit of action. Only thing I was a little disappointed with was how little animations there actually were. The story will probably end up as one of my all-time favorites.
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Having played that, Norn9, and Amnesia: Memories, I consider Code:Realize the best, Amnesia not as great but still pretty good, and Norn9 the worst.

 
motaku96 said:
The translation is a bit shoddy here and there. It's not SAO bad, but it's clearly not Bamco's best work. A few lines in dialogue seem out of place without any transition.
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"Shinjuku Matagi (cop who loves Shinjuku)"

motaku96 said:
Oh and about how it runs.

I swear there was some bad artifacting on the first cutscene for a second and then the bitrate caught up.
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I think that might have been intentional considering what's going on.

 
Other people are. I'm waiting til it drops to $20-25.

Strange Journeys should have remained a numbered title, and IV the side story.

 
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I don't know if any body else got the email, but Iffystore says there's a misprint in the Blanc Zombies LE artbook, and their giving everyone a free Greenheart sticker to compensate. Honestly it's a really small detail and I don't really give a crap, in fact I prefer Noire over Vert anyway, but this is a really, really nice gesture from them and I appreciate it. Beats doing nothing and ignoring it which has happened before. So all the props to them.
 
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TERA Welcomes Hello Kitty to the Cash Shop
http://www.hardcoregamer.com/2016/04/28/tera-welcomes-hello-kitty-to-the-cash-shop/204533/
https://youtu.be/38X5wBBocDw
 
The King of Fighters 2000 for PS4 Launches May 3, Trophies Now aAailable for Viewing
http://gematsu.com/2016/04/king-fighters-2000-ps4-launches-may-3

https://www.exophase.com/game/the-king-of-fighters-2000-ps4/trophies/

ChuSingura46+1 Makes a Meek Returns to Kickstarter
http://www.hardcoregamer.com/2016/04/28/chusingura461-makes-a-meek-returns-to-kickstarter/204476/
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/57909428/chusingura46-1-a-visual-novel-with-moe-samurai-gir-0
 
New Official Trailer For Parkour-Heavy Isometric RPG Seven: The Days Long Gone
http://nichegamer.com/2016/04/28/new-official-trailer-for-parkour-heavy-isometric-rpg-seven/
https://youtu.be/cHdReMjE32w
 
Boss Fight Books To Publish Books On Kingdom Hearts II, Katamari Damacy
http://www.siliconera.com/2016/04/28/boss-fight-books-publish-books-kingdom-hearts-ii-katamari-damacy/
 
Kirby: Planet Robobot Hands-On – Machines Make The Difference
http://www.siliconera.com/2016/04/28/kirby-planet-robobot-hands-machines-make-difference/
https://youtu.be/Y2AjUI-HeU8
 
New OverClocked Remix Album Arranges Tracks From Final Fantasy V
http://www.siliconera.com/2016/04/28/new-overclocked-remix-album-arranges-tracks-final-fantasy-v/
https://youtu.be/hjEx1-9YL3Y
 
PlayStation Europe Exec on PS4 Neo: “It’s Normal to Think of its Update;” Welcomes the Nintendo NX
http://www.dualshockers.com/2016/04/28/playstation-europe-vice-president-on-ps4-neo-its-normal-to-think-of-its-update/
 
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I didn't get any opinions on the PSN thread so I'll try here:

What are people's thoughts on Omega Quintet? I thought the original Neptunia was a terrible game, and totally not worth the time I put into clearing it. I've avoided that whole franchise even though I've heard they made things better. On the flip side though I quite enjoyed FairyFF, although I wasn't willing to invest the time to grind out the platinum trophy for it.

 

Starcrest said:
I didn't get any opinions on the PSN thread so I'll try here:

What are people's thoughts on Omega Quintet? I thought the original Neptunia was a terrible game, and totally not worth the time I put into clearing it. I've avoided that whole franchise even though I've heard they made things better. On the flip side though I quite enjoyed FairyFF, although I wasn't willing to invest the time to grind out the platinum trophy for it.
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Fairy Fencer F is pretty much modeled after the Neptunia games that came after the first one, so if you liked that you'd like the other Neptunia games.

Omega Quintet is also pretty similar to the good Neptunia games.

 
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