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.

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Damn, the nearest Round One bowling place is 2 hours away... :cry:

Arcades in Japan definitely spoiled me, I come back home to realize we have almost no decent arcades at all here in the US.

 
Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 + 2.5 Remix Square Enix Online Store-exclusive limited edition announced

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Kolin Revealed as the Next Street Fighter V DLC Character; Joins the Roster February 28, 2017

 
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kickalillas2 said:
Are you in Chicago too?
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Pretty much. I've always lived in Illinois and I go to college in state too. I recently went to a Dave and Buster's and it was pretty fun. They had DDR and some other one with Korean songs, but I'd love to experience japanese rhythm games in an arcade for once. Usually stuff like this is reserved for New York or Cali, so it's nice that Round one is nearby.

 
For some non arcade talk.

Fire Emblem Heroes the 10000 feathers were delivered today. There are arena rewards and they are giving 10 dueling daggers which recharge the battles (3 per dagger). 20 battles in total gets you feathers, while 10 gives feathers and also get 10 on int difficulty or higher to earn some other award. I did a pull today and got a Tiki which is nice. I'm not sure i'll use her since I'm using Lyn and Tharja...though she may replace Tharja though I love Tharja's range. I think balance is good for the arena battles. You never know what weapons you're going against. I can't wait to get Cordellia 5 star someday. She eats through red units and everyone uses red units since most of the generals are red. Also be very wary going against Takumi....they're everywhere and very hard to kill.

 
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The UFO games are expensive. I came home with more than my money's worth, but I definitely spent a lot.

But it's fun getting a $40 plush with $2 (obviously lucked out).

Also, Gunslinger Stratos is pretty fun.

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SonX said:
Pretty much. I've always lived in Illinois and I go to college in state too. I recently went to a Dave and Buster's and it was pretty fun. They had DDR and some other one with Korean songs, but I'd love to experience japanese rhythm games in an arcade for once. Usually stuff like this is reserved for New York or Cali, so it's nice that Round one is nearby.
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The number of rhythm games they had was really nice...among the other Japanese arcade machines. Finding Project Diva was an amazingly nice surprise.

For cost I think $20 got me like 90 credits and the games I played were around 6 credits I think.
 
There's a vocaloid bundle on Groupess for $2 minimum. I typically enjoy most of the Mwk's mixes of things, so it's cool to see that's one of the albums

https://groupees.com/vocaloid3

'Damnation' is probably one of my favorite tracks, full version in spoiler tag:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaUIJEjAVR4

the Mwk remix of 'Love is War' I also really like. It's not in this bundle, but it is a free download in the YouTube description:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOATu-g-Us0

 
Got bored again, so made another account.

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I think this one might be my favorite one yet, as it's the most balanced one yet. :D

The double Roy is rather unfortunate though. ~_~

 
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Thatguy1513 said:
^I think you're having more fun making everyone envious of your luck than with the actual game =_=
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nitrosmob said:
There isn't much to it right now honestly. I do enjoy the bored rerolls and I do like the most current team.
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Yeah, it's always fun when you have so many orbs to start with, and it's super easy to farm. Once you get through all the scenario stages on all modes, that stops. XD

But yeah, I like my current team a lot too. I think all my previous ones weren't as balanced as this one.

I think Maria is amazing since she has a range, aoe heal, which is mind blowing.

Nothing371 said:
11,898 feathers hot damn I'm rich !! Take me to the casino, honey!
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I had that initial reaction at first too, then when I went to try and evolve my 4* to 5*, I suddenly realized I was just middle class still, and couldn't afford the upgrade. :*(

 
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Squarehard said:
I had that initial reaction at first too, then when I went to try and evolve my 4* to 5*, I suddenly realized I was just middle class still, and couldn't afford the upgrade. :*(
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You can't even think about it in that fashion. Feathers are there to take characters from 2* to 3*, and from 3* to 4*. I'm stoked because there hasn't been much of anything to do the last two days and now I have 4* Shareena, Alphonse, and Anna all lvl 5 and moving on up in the world! They were also getting close to max level ups as 3*s as I got them to lv28. Feathers are best spent on Characters you couldn't normally get at four stars, or on units like Clarine that are awesome and you can't wait around until RNG get her as a 4*.

check out their 5* attacks and abilities, they are pretty good, and they also make a well-rounded team:

http://feheroes.wiki/Alfonse

http://feheroes.wiki/Anna

http://feheroes.wiki/Alfonse

 
Nothing371 said:
You can't even think about it in that fashion. Feathers are there to take characters from 2* to 3*, and from 3* to 4*. I'm stoked because there hasn't been much of anything to do the last two days and now I have 4* Shareena, Alphonse, and Anna all lvl 5 and moving on up in the world! They were also getting close to max level ups as 3*s as I got them to lv28. Feathers are best spent on Characters you couldn't normally get at four stars, or on units like Clarine that are awesome and you can't wait around until RNG get her as a 4*.

check out their 5* attacks and abilities, they are pretty good, and they also make a well-rounded team:

http://feheroes.wiki/Alfonse

http://feheroes.wiki/Anna

http://feheroes.wiki/Alfonse
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Fair point.

I think I was just more in awe how much of a jump in feathers was needed to go from 4* to 5* compared to 3* to 4*.

Was hoping that 10,000 feathers would've covered that at least, but I guess it was more wishful thinking really. XD

But yeah, since I can't do that now, I'll probably just start to look at some of my lower star units to see the best way to use these feathers.

Here's hoping they have another Twitter "challenge" so we get more feathers. :D

 
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The problem is the very good 4 stars, such as Cordellia and seeing a few skills I can't get because she's only 4 star. Now that I hate. It really should be like 10k feathers at most 4 to 5. Would still require a lot of grinding but it's more doable. Course F2P games are less about the logical and more about the lets reach into your pockets and see what we can take......which does include time by the way. Time isn't free haha.

 
That starting base attack, mahgahd. @_@

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nitrosmob said:
The problem is the very good 4 stars, such as Cordellia and seeing a few skills I can't get because she's only 4 star. Now that I hate. It really should be like 10k feathers at most 4 to 5. Would still require a lot of grinding but it's more doable. Course F2P games are less about the logical and more about the lets reach into your pockets and see what we can take......which does include time by the way. Time isn't free haha.
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I was kind of thinking 10k would've been a good measure as 20k just seems incredibly high.

I guess it is a little better now, since they added quests that actually give you feathers, but still, they're once a month, so will stay take a considerable amount of time to build it up outside of quests and events. But yeah, in the end it's a f2p game, so it could be worse, especially since the feathers we did get were free anyways.

Hopefully they will give us some more feathers in the next couple of months. :D

 
How is everyone progressing in Nioh?  I'm lv37 and just about ready to leave the first region after a couple of sub-missions.  I'm in love with this game.

 
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The game is fantasticly addictive. It's like a combination of dark souls and the diablo loot system which adds a lot of replay ability. Granted it's a cheap ploy to get more game time by repeating missions but dammit it's still working. Sucks so far is that the first 4 levels are pretty much identical to the ones in the demos but at least this time all the loot checking and forging isn't going to waste. Game feels a lot easier than the alpha though.
Biggest gripe is that hopefully the people playing don't mind that the bosses are much more difficult than the standard enemies and hopefully don't rage quit so we can see a sequel in the works.
 
I'm currently [customspoiler='level 75']
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[/customspoiler] with stats distributed pretty evenly. It wouldn't be so even if Dexterity and Magic wasn't required for training missions. Still wearing [customspoiler='level 48~ armor']
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[/customspoiler] that I crafted a while back though. It doesn't help that my next mission has a recommended level of 87 though, but I haven't really been having any issue. At the very least I'm keeping [customspoiler='my weapons']
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[/customspoiler] updated though. Surprised that I'm that far behind the recommended level since I've been doing co-op with a friend. Otherwise I'd probably still be in my mid to late 60s. As for the area I'm in, I'm [customspoiler='at the end of the']4th[/customspoiler] area.

Difficulty it's not nearly as difficult as the alpha was. At least for me, but I didn't play the alpha much and the combat didn't properly click with me until the Last Chance Demo. Nearly every boss I've gotten in 1 to 3 deaths except for maybe one or two? There have been a number that I've downed on my first attempt too.

 
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Nothing371 said:
How is everyone progressing in Nioh? I'm lv37 and just about ready to leave the first region after a couple of submissions. I'm in love with this game.
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I'm lvl 40 and I'm about to leave the first region too. I've done all the sub missions there but one, and I need to go back to the last main story mission and find the last Kodama I missed. I have mountains of loot I want to deal with before I go to the next region tho lol. I'm loving this game so much. Each time I turn on my ps4 to get the last few skins I need in overwatch, I end up playing this instead.

 
Level 51 and just got to the 3rd region.  Some of the bosses are ok but 1 or 2 took me 2hrs+ so it can get frustrating.  

 
Midori Monkey said:
I'm lvl 40 and I'm about to leave the first region too. I've done all the sub missions there but one, and I need to go back to the last main story mission and find the last Kodama I missed. I have mountains of loot I want to deal with before I go to the next region tho lol. I'm loving this game so much. Each time I turn on my ps4 to get the last few skins I need in overwatch, I end up playing this instead.
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I finished the second region (and all sidequests, not including twilight missions or dojo missions that I don't have the stats for) and I'm around level 55 or so. Using the spear as my main weapon. I'm also keeping track of all my deaths - I've died 14 times so far. I did the same thing for Dark Souls 3 in a blind, offline playthrough and I only died 33 times in that game. It'll probably be hard to beat that for Nioh...

List of deaths:

Region 1:

01 - Hino-enma
02 - Hino-enma
03 - revenant in side mission (kanbei and the overlord)

Region 2:

04 - fell into pit in mines
05 - fell into pit in mines
06 - oni in mines
07 - oni in mines
08 - boulder in side mission (3 angry gods)
09 - Umi-bozu (didn't know it was going to be the boss)
10 - fell in the water (from roof)
11 - ran into the water
12 - Marume Nagayoshi (dojo - must've hit r2, didn't notice you actually had healing items for this)
13 - raven tengu in side mission (heir to the nioh)
14 - helmet warrior on side mission (conspirators)

 
SolidSnake86 said:
It's posted on the CAG homepage, but figured I'd post it here just in case some people miss it. Valkyrie Drive: Bhikkhuni (Vita) is $29.95 on Amazon.

Not sure if it's been lower? This one doesn't seem to drop in price too often, but I could be wrong.

https://www.amazon.com/Valkyrie-Drive-Bhikkhuni-PlayStation-Vita/dp/B01JHQURLY?SubscriptionId=AKIAJZR56RZFSQN6RIBA&tag=cheapassgam08-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01JHQURLY
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This is the lowest I've seen it thus far. Tempting, but I still have Shinran Kagura: Estival Verses to play before I buy this one. And of course, about 30 others before that one, =P.

 
Blue Reflection Gets New Trailer Showing Battle and Schoolgirls Aplenty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N7vITmlXOU

Musou Stars Gets New Trailers Showing: Laegrinna, Lu Bu, Hajime Arima, and Opoona

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBy-foBjbEA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1khBDkZI14

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGHOzBJa2lA

Earth Defense Force 5 second trailer, with English subtitles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuK98esVcNQ

Toukiden 2 details story, new weapons, and Mitama

 
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Cloyd said:
This is the lowest I've seen it thus far. Tempting, but I still have Shinran Kagura: Estival Verses to play before I buy this one. And of course, about 30 others before that one, =P.
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I'm right there with you. I've stopped biting on these daily deals unless they dip into the sub-$20 range. My cup runs over, and I don't need to lay down cash for titles unless the bargain is truly exceptional. (I am a CAG after all, stellar deals just aren't easy to pass up) But average deals I'll give a pass to. I'm trying to actually play some of my massive collection these days.

Speaking of which, a big thank-you to everyone who gave me Fire Emblem advice! I started Awakening over from the beginning, and took a lot of your tips into account. Benching Frederick was a good call. As soon as I could afford to I dropped him from the regular roster. I had Stahl and Sully pick up the slack, and now they are both well-leveled and extremely effective in battles. Without Frederick around to hog the glory and hoover up all the experience, my party has been growing and fleshing out much more quickly. Now I have a solid roster that can for the most part hold their own. For the random Risen battles I intentional try to work weaker characters into the mix to get them some kill-steals and boost their experience.

 
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