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.

As always, have fun and enjoy your stay!

 
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Vigilante said:
Yeah, just like an Onimusha HD Collection, Viewtiful Joe HD Collection, or God Hand (PS2-to-PS4)...

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I would violently ejaculate over a Viewtiful Joe HD Collection

 
I vote for boobs myself...massive, DFC or anything in between.

Also on a less serious note, I'm not as happy about the turn based strategy RPG games being delayed to May/June. Now it has God Wars, Summon Knight 6, Utawarerumono and Fire Emblem: Echoes. I'm very likely just getting Summon Knight 6, and waiting for the others to drop (Wont happen quickly for FE!). Honestly i'm extremely iffy for God Wars now as it is. Also doesn't help Mary Skelter is coming out around the time too...and that I've been waiting for (never thought i'd say that about an IFFY game!).

Edit: Read some Summon Knight 6 reviews...yeah I'm passing on that. Sounds like a mix between an original story as well as a massive crossover with the previous Summon Knight games characters. Story sounds weak and battles way too easy. Pass for now. On that note Utawarerumono gets my vote. 

 
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Nothing371 said:
sorry, but legs > everything. (ass is kind of a natural extension of that).
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Haha i'm a leg man myself....but boobs are a nice second...along with everything of the face third (I like lips and eyes). Is it pretty sad when you've seen enough kpop videos to see nothing but legs watching them. Serious sensory overload every time I watch another of those.

On another note after playing Yakuza 0 more and more (btw whoever earlier in the thread got the plat....you're crazy and I wonder how long it took!) it really has excellent depictions of all the characters. I mean all types young, old...anything...just excellent. Makes the environment feel very realistic and nice. When everything is so anime coming from Japanese games, it's nice to get realistic depictions of people. Course all the anime art in the game just makes it more authentic. Great games and yes I did spend about 2 hours doing the telephone club yesterday.....I did finish off those substories at least haha.

 
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In FE HEroes news, I rolled another round and got a 4 star Seliph and 5 Star Marth.

As I watched my bf role a 5 Star Leo and Elisa. I already had Elise but he got two 5 Stars.

I know have 4 5Star and very happy about it.

 
NeoMonk said:
Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 on PS4 came in today, totally forgot this was a thing :whistle2:
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Does it have a manual or double sided cover?
I wish they made a new art piece for the cover instead of just using the old art book's cover.
still nice thou.
also japan ps plus had a great month.
 
Draekon said:
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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I played probably 20-30 hours, doing everything on the right half of the map, missing only one encounter. My thoughts:

I didn't have the weird movement issues you did. Jumping is faster going up a steep hill, but that's all I noticed.

I did get stuck on corpses, but nothing else that I could remember.

Facial expressions didn't match what they said, which did bother me a lot.

Different enemy loadouts would have been nice. For the most part, you just need two ammo types. Maybe 3. Out of the dozen plus.

fucking finding 5 racoons total and still have 0 skins.

Modification inventory is too small. Resources are fine, once you realize how small stacks of similar items are.

Haven't played for a couple of days cause I've been too busy~

 
I was happy to play my first super robot wars game in English (not counting on for the gba) when they released the Asian edition English sub for super robot wars v. It is completely in English save for the VA. It is a really nice game so far.
 
Ray5555 said:
I was happy to play my first super robot wars game in English (not counting on for the gba) when they released the Asian edition English sub for super robot wars v. It is completely in English save for the VA. It is a really nice game so far.
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Cool I just got mine from play-asia myself. Going to finish up Yakuza 0 before I work on any other games though.

 
kickalillas2 said:
Let's not get crazy calling today a holiday. All these special days are BS. We should have a "straight white man" day...and here come the SJWs saying everyday is straight white male day.
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Lol agreed. We could just have no special days if equality is what is truly desired

Also I voted life but hometown is also a good choice. The poll keeps going back and forth on which is winning
 
got to the air ship for cold steel 2.  also found the earth temple I apparently missed at the beginning of the game.  It wont let me go in there though because they don't have "enough time" for that.  So game you have enough time to take an air ship across the country and back to deliver a newspaper, reunite 2 children and get a block of rock crapped from a giant spider but you don't have time to enter a dungeon that was right there?

 
shadowysea07 said:
got to the air ship for cold steel 2. also found the earth temple I apparently missed at the beginning of the game. It wont let me go in there though because they don't have "enough time" for that. So game you have enough time to take an air ship across the country and back to deliver a newspaper, reunite 2 children and get a block of rock crapped from a giant spider but you don't have time to enter a dungeon that was right there?
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I found that quite hilarious myself. I knows its supposed to mean you need to further the main plot, but if I can do 5 menial tasks that involve extensive air travel, I can spend a half hour clearing a dungeon and getting some gear.

 
My Nier Automata Black Box unboxing video:

https://youtu.be/8x_lH4dP4ss

My deepest apologies in advance for the trauma I am about to put you through. 

Thanks for watching!

If you want to know anything about the CE just ask.

 
I hate unboxing videos but that made me laugh a bit. I hate reaction videos too. One of my friends did both....yeah I stopped watching them for our friendship sake haha.

 
Now that I'm getting around to playing Atelier Firis from Steam, I'm starting to wish I had just bought the PS4 version with GCU. My system is running everything, but it seems they tried upscaling a Vita version.

 
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BlackRockWaifu said:
My Nier Automata Black Box unboxing video:

My deepest apologies in advance for the trauma I am about to put you through.

Thanks for watching!

If you want to know anything about the CE just ask.
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I really like the CGI animation of the lamp. it seems strangely familiar hmm...

 
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hmm seems no gamestop within 80 miles has a ps4 copy of umvc3. I guess I'll order it online since it's still available that way. I wonder if it'll really be limited or will gamestop print out another batch.
 
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BlackRockWaifu said:
My Nier Automata Black Box unboxing video:

My deepest apologies in advance for the trauma I am about to put you through.

Thanks for watching!

If you want to know anything about the CE just ask.
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That video was Oscar Gold worthy....and when I say that I mean this kind of Oscar Gold.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J5MtYNispY

:lol:

 
Olengie said:
I wish we got Marvel vs Capcom Collection instead
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As far as I'm concerned, Capcom can just keep re-releasing Marvel vs Capcom 2. I don't even know if it's available on PSN anymore (doubt it), but I bought it digital on the PS3 back in 2010 and still have it downloaded on my system. They perfected MvC with that title and, in my opinion, it's Capcom's best fighter--way better than MvC3, Street Fighter IV & V...etc. Best selection of characters too.

 
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Persona 5 Reveals Its DLC Schedule And Pricing, Swimsuit Set Will Be Free

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Dragon Quest Heroes II ‘Meet the Heroes, Part I: Lazarel, Teresa & Healix’ trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTG--TLkIzE

Tetsuya Nomura further discusses recent Kingdom Hearts III and Final Fantasy VII Remake screenshots

 
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SolidSnake86 said:
As far as I'm concerned, Capcom can just keep re-releasing Marvel vs Capcom 2. I don't even know if it's available on PSN anymore (doubt it), but I bought it digital on the PS3 back in 2010 and still have it downloaded on my system. They perfected MvC with that title and, in my opinion, it's Capcom's best fighter--way better than MvC3, Street Fighter IV & V...etc. Best selection of characters too.
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I used to think MvC2 was the pinnacle of fighters when I was younger. The better I got at fighters in general just made me sad at how much of the roster is completely useless. That's the case for almost every fighter ever, but the mechanics of MvC2 just very clearly favor about 8-10 characters max, and in a roster of 56 that's not the best endorsement.

My favorite Capcom fighters would probably be CvS2, 3S, Rival Schools/PJ, and Tatsunoko vs Capcom. Alpha 2 and 3 are in there as honorable mentions, too.

 
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