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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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.

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AugustAPC said:
Or people like collectibles with their games. Especially when those games turn out great. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Nawww, you prolly right. Stupid CEs. Shitty LRG games. fuck everything and everyone.
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Or some people like big butts and they cannot lie,

I'm also a nice steelbook type of guy,

With an artbook that shows 2-Booty,

I want it more than Call of Duty.

 
Not sure if this has been shown but the Case Art on the Zelda BotW Special Edition & Basic Edition is different.
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I sort of wanted to spring for the Nier LE, but I knew Square Enix would eventually put out a better artbook separately, which I would end up buying either way, and SE figurines have historically been trash tier.
 
I just heard Honoka's voice in DOA for the first time and I want to strangle her to death now.

This is a perfectly reasonable reaction, right?
 
Drabelincoln said:
anyone get a response from Heavyarm about Setsuna yet?
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I originally emailed them on Friday, but didn't get a response until this morning. Got the order in and paid for.

Edit: they just tweeted to email them to preorder the next restock.
 
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Yay officially finished Chronoclock.

One of the endings was actually pretty good. It still ended somewhat abruptly....but it felt a bit more finished than the others. The last route....was literally 5 minutes long. Yeah, that was not good. It felt like, oh yeah there was that other person...lets do an ending now...and wham....like 2 little parts of a route. The story was OK at best and I really disliked the way the routes were delivered. It always felt like you were at an important part at the end and it's like eh...we're happy....whatever. The H-Scenes should have been integrated into the story. It would have maybe made them a little more substantial. The story, especially for that last ending always seemed rushed and heading to some main story point. You never really get a feel for anything other than the characters at school, and the MC and the characters living with him. The rest of them had families you never saw and never cared about. It was all fluff. The graphics and sound are excellent though. That's easily my favorite part of the game. I think overall adding up everything approximately the story was about 25 hours long. Maybe get in a sale, but it's just not that great. It did make me appreciate more Dracu-Riot! and Da Capo 3 more, which I had complaints about, but were easily 7/10 games with their decent stories and characters. So yup I'm sticking to my 6/10 score. 

 
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I am awash in a sea of fun games right now, this rabbit hole is just getting deeper. I have almost no time to game with work and general life but I'm going to try and get in an hour a night at least for the next two months. I doubt I make it but I'm trying.

 
reaperztoll said:
I am awash in a sea of fun games right now, this rabbit hole is just getting deeper. I have almost no time to game with work and general life but I'm going to try and get in an hour a night at least for the next two months. I doubt I make it but I'm trying.
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Good luck! I'm struggling myself. I go through VNs pretty quickly though, since I read relatively quickly. I played a bit of Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns....good simple fun, but honestly this will likely be my last of these games. It's weird that it reminds me so much of the SNES and PSX versions....game just doesn't evolve that much. Still alright game and I'm sure i'll go till I at least get married. I think i'm just a bit over the formula, and really have to play Stardew Valley as well with all the praise it gets.

I'm working on Yakuza 0 though...chapter 4 at least haha. Game goes relatively quickly honestly when you concentrate on the story. I've done most of the side missions though other than the friendship missions, and I've still finished off 3 or 4 of those.

 
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I bought Setsuna from Amazon.co.jp Friday night just before midnight and it's supposed to be here tomorrow! The price + shipping was lower than nippon-yasan / playasia as well (although I didn't check any others). It was my first amazon.co.jp order, so I'm pretty impressed.

 
Well, I beat and somehow managed to platinum Horizon: Zero Dawn. It was a lot better than I was expecting. It doesn't really fit this thread, but I'll briefly give a short blurb on it. For me, it had some issues/annoyances such as:

  • Inconsistent movement. Hills make you go a little slow when climbing them. Jumping is faster, sadly.
  • Sometimes small objects on the ground can stop you in your tracks, which is bad when you're fighting and moving backwards rather than forwards. Caused me to get killed a couple times because of it. It's also inconsistent on what will cause this as well.
  • Second half, the dialogue scenes had animation cuts from dialogue window to dialogue window that was rather jarring. I don't remember it being that present in the first half.
  • Facial expressions were a little stiff/awkward in my opinion. Could have used a wider range of facial expressions too.
  • Really needs more variety of enemies. Once you learn how to kill them, they become really easy. The only way to make it hard after that is to throw simultaneous enemies at you. Some slightly re-skinned types with some extra features would've been nice that had some different move sets too I think.
  • Human enemies are pretty bland with only a couple of real variations of them. AI is pretty much the same across all of them.
  • Sunglare out the ass. If you're traversing an area that makes you look towards the sun, it's really bad. Games need to stop this shit except with transitioning from a dark/artificial light area.
  • Resource & modification inventories are small, even after all the upgrades. There could have been some improvements to the inventory system as well. Also inventory upgrades should have focused more on machines than wildlife for things. Why do I need a Fish Skin to upgrade to the max capacity for an ammo type?

Despite that, I enjoyed the combat quite a bit as well as the story (Man vs. Machine). The game also looks really good and probably even better on a PS4 Pro with almost no instances of noticeable framerate drops. The final missions was rather fun too as you're given a new toy to play with and earlier sidequests will have a slight effect on the mission too. Final boss was unfortunately a bit of a joke. Especially if you found all of a certain type of item from various main missions to obtain the best defensive armor in the game.

I'd really recommend picking it up at some point if the gameplay interests you at all. Once you get the skills, it's fun sprinting, sliding and stealth stabbing things. Among other things.

 
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Draekon said:
I'd really recommend picking it up at some point if the gameplay interests you at all. Once you get the skills, it's fun sprinting, sliding and stealth stabbing things. Among other things.
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It's for sure on my radar, but I'm not getting a PS4 until maybe holidays this year if my funds are right, but since this was first shown, I wanted to play it, as it looks rather cool.

 
I somehow managed to sneak into the top 5000 rank for arena in fire emblem heroes :eek:
Hopefully it lasts so I can get me some those feathers
 
Thatguy1513 said:
Woah nice, what was your score that landed you up there?
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Score was 4536. Rank 4879.
I think I did a perfect advanced run with 5* shareena, 4* nino, 5* seliph, and 5*+1 roy
Or I might have had 1 death. Can't really remember.
 
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Draekon said:
  • Inconsistent movement. Hills make you go a little slow when climbing them. Jumping is faster, sadly.
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Although I haven't played the game to know how bad it is, I actually like the idea of uphill movement being slower. Though if it bogs you down too much it's actually less believable than if there was no change at all. Of course, the jumping thing is right out; I've always hated jumping as a superior movement strategy. (except for platformers I suppose)

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  • Sunglare out the ass. If you're traversing an area that makes you look towards the sun, it's really bad.
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roger watersmelon said:
Although I haven't played the game to know how bad it is, I actually like the idea of uphill movement being slower. Though if it bogs you down too much it's actually less believable than if there was no change at all. Of course, the jumping thing is right out; I've always hated jumping as a superior movement strategy. (except for platformers I suppose)
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I felt it went a bit too slow on anything more than a small incline. That's probably partially because repeatedly jumping felt so much quicker on anything that was anything 35 degrees or higher. I didn't even really touch on mounts either, which felt very meh on anything that wasn't a road. I'd lose all momentum too easily. After I got infinite free fast travel, I just used that instead and ran around for the rest without a mount most of the time.

Load times were pretty good too. Except for the biggest city in the game. That was pretty slow unless you're more or less right there and most of it is still in memory.

 
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I am having so much fun with Horizon Zero Dawn.

I just got the shadow bow and I am loving it. When ever I see a monster besides the T-rex type ones I take down and it's a lot of fun when random monsters join the fray.

I like setting traps so in case the battle does not go my way I have a back up plan and its so fun luring them into the traps.

Question: Is any of the pre order codes and bonuses worth it if you are like 20% through the game? Wondering if they are worth buying are not. Kinda wish I would have ordered the CE

I feel like there is enough store to carry me over till Mass Effect Andromeda. I am ordering the digital deluxe edition, the steelbook from best buy, the CE guie ( though i wish i could afford the book bag version) and the male figure on amazon.

PS How hard was it to Plat the game?

I recently got my first with Watch Dogs 2 and wondering how hard this one might be.

 
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umbry said:
Question: Is any of the pre order codes and bonuses worth it if you are like 20% through the game? Wondering if they are worth buying are not. Kinda wish I would have ordered the CE
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No, they're pretty basic level stuff but have a couple elements that you likely don't have at the beginning. Once you leave the starting lands you can buy better stuff so long as you have the items/currency. If you're at the point where you can access Thunderjaws though, you have access to the best stuff that isn't the lodge challenge rewards which are only slightly better than purple gear.

umbry said:
PS How hard was it to Plat the game?
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I literally had everything done when I beat the game except for one trophy. That one was to take down all 23 target dummies throughout the game. I had most, so I just watched a video and spent 10 minutes finishing it up. I don't really go for platinum trophies unless I like the game and it doesn't really require me to go out of my way much. Technically this was my third platinum (I think?) with Nioh being another recent one.

If you skip all challenge stuff and the items on the world map (marked by huge circles) or skip most of the sidequests, then it will take a bit of effort to get.

 
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umbry said:
PS How hard was it to Plat the game?

I recently got my first with Watch Dogs 2 and wondering how hard this one might be.
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It's not difficult at all even on very hard and it's similar to Watch Dogs 2 with getting collectibles. The game is really enjoyable.

 
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I guess this will be my second Plat.

I have already started getting the collectibles with those four maps make it a lot easier.

Ya I have seen the thunderjaws but I have not gone close after I scanned them, but I think I wanna take on those two in the dessert after I set lots of traps.

And I am loving the game too and the story and side missions.

Not just I lost my doll, find it. No girl find your own doll.

I just wish I could hit people that talk back or sass me.

outcast this outcast that. I saved all yall lives that are still alive.

Be greatful

 
Only 29 more days until Persona 5!   Hopefully I'll have enough time to finish Zelda by then.  

Still got some work to do to max out my +5 character in Nioh; been having fun farming the Smithing Texts for all of the armor sets, and crafting every set.   Nioh was only my second platinum too.  Glad to hear others are on the same page in regards to trophies! I come so close with certain games, but I don't grind multiple timesinks. 

 
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I still have the crapfest of having to beat a boss 7 more times to platinum criminal girls 2. Story wasn't too great so still haven't done it. I do like platinum trophies that feel like natural progression for sure. 

 
Once you're spoiled by better figures from various companies the pack in figures with games just are on the somewhat meh side. She's becoming too popular a character to have figure companies not release something of her eventually. 

 
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