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 moderators are: Draekon, Las_Hole, and Waffleswanton

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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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Nice sketch, BRW!

Here's the best I can do:

This is a lie. The best I can do is to never draw again and spare everyone suffering

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Week 10 of the release bonanza or week 9 for Japanese niche only releases. As of writing this, Summon Night 6 hasn't been delayed yet. Otherwise it's basically that, the .hack remaster and Zwei II this week. The Final Fantasy XV multiplayer DLC was delayed I believe, so it's not being listed this week. Western wise, this week is Call of Duty. Though obviously everybody wants the new Bubsy.

Other stuff that released without warning last week (Assume PC unless otherwise noted):
- Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization Deluxe Edition (RPG)
- Rite of Life (RPG / Simulation)

Weekly Releases (October 29th - November 4th)

Summon Night 6: Lost Borders
- Platform(s): PS4, Vita
- Genre: Strategy RPG
- Demo: N/A
- Online: N/A
- Comments: It should be finally releasing unless Vic has some unexpected delay up his sleeve. Supports cross-save.

.hack//G.U. Last Recode
- Platform(s): PS4, PC
- Genre: Action RPG
- Demo: N/A
- Online: N/A
- Comments: Remaster of the original .hack//G.U. on the PS2. Includes all three games from the original, plus an all new fourth volume.

Rabi-Ribi
- Platform(s): PS4, Vita
- Genre: Metroidvania / Bullet Hell
- Demo: N/A
- Online: N/A
- Comments: Digital only. Physical via LRG at a unknown later date. Actually a decent metroidvania.

Steven Universe: Save the Light
- Platform(s): PS4, Xbox One
- Genre:  RPG
- Demo: N/A
- Online: N/A
- Comments: Not Japanese.

Lost Dimension
- Platform(s): PC
- Genre: Strategy RPG
- Demo: N/A
- Online: N/A
- Comments: Previously released on the Vita & PS3.

In the name of sin
- Platform(s): PC
- Genre: Survival / Suspense?
- Demo: N/A
- Online: N/A

WHERE'S PHANTOM THIEF
- Platform(s): PC
- Genre: Puzzle / I, Spy
- Demo: N/A
- Online: N/A

Goro 2
- Platform(s): PC
- Genre: Puzzle
- Demo: N/A
- Online: N/A

Zwei: The Ilvard Insurrection
- Platform(s): PC
- Genre: Action RPG
- Demo: N/A
- Online: N/A
- Comments: It's about time XSeed.

VOID
- Platform(s): PC
- Genre: Visual Novel / Espionage
- Demo: N/A
- Online: N/A
- Comments: Published by Sekai Project.

REalM: Walk of Soul
- Platform(s): PC
- Genre: Horror / Adventure
- Demo: N/A
- Online: N/A
- Comments: Spanish dev?

Little Busters! English Edition
- Platform(s): PC
- Genre: Visual Novel
- Demo: N/A
- Online: N/A
- Comments: Published by VisualArts.

Talk to Aya
- Platform(s): PC
- Genre: Simulation
- Demo: N/A
- Online: N/A

Fox Hime
- Platform(s): PC
- Genre: Visual Novel
- Demo: N/A
- Online: N/A

春风 Spring Breeze
- Platform(s): PC
- Genre: Visual Novel
- Demo: N/A
- Online: N/A
- Comments: Chinese dev.

Past Releases
October 22nd - October 28th
October 15th - October 21st
October 8th - October 14th
October 1st - October 7th
September 24th - September 30th

 
Just Summon Knight 6 for me this week (already got it long paid off).  Too many other things I'm playing through right (Etrian Odyssey V, Culdcept Revolt) now to worry about anything else.

 
Josef said:
Just Summon Knight 6 for me this week (already got it long paid off). Too many other things I'm playing through right (Etrian Odyssey V, Culdcept Revolt) now to worry about anything else.
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got alot of bouncing around myself, started dragon heroes 2 but got tired of the heavy grinding and slow interactions so switched to culdcept though beating the main story was tuff, the extra challenges are brutal so getting frustrated with that, hard to find enjoyable games these days looking forward to summon and hack but seeing recent playthrough on twitch was a little off putting seeing how VN heavy it is

 
Pheria said:
Nice sketch, BRW!

Here's the best I can do:

This is a lie. The best I can do is to never draw again and spare everyone suffering

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I'll actually miss Miiverse just because I used to practice trying to draw with a tablet and being able to post the drawings in the Cruncyroll community and getting likes and comments always motivated me to want to do more. Tho I only ever did these in 2015 and never bothered to do more since then because drawing these would take 2 - 4 hours and worst part about drawing on Miiverse is you can't save progress so once you start drawing you can't stop. I always did consider going back to draw more and even get that Art Academy game so I could hopefully improve more in drawing with the tablet but sadly with Miiverse now closing down next month it seems pretty pointless to bother drawing again on the Wii U.

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Konata Izumi and Kagami Hiiragi - Lucky Star

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Dango Daikazoku - Clannad

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Akira Kogami - Lucky Star

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Maaya Uchida and Ayane Sakura - GanGan GA Channel

This one gives me feels just because this months episode is their last one together.

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Tomoko Kuroki - Watamote

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Mini Ika Musume x Splatoon

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Koro Sensei - Assassination Classroom

I did this one for when Splatoon was released and it was neat seeing it pop up in game.

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I beat Mario Odyssey yesterday since it arrived Thursday for me. It was a pretty fun game and the final sequence was quite enjoyable. However there is one thing I didn't like about it, which is how they went with the Stars this time around. Previous games they tended to have up to a rather small to fair amount of them per level. In this one they have a ton of them in every level. I'm not really keen on having to analyze every square meter of the game all the time. It feels less tailored for my experience with regards to Stars and more random and chaotic which isn't something I really want in a Mario game honestly. Granted you don't need all of them to unlock everything post-game and there is an alternative way to gain Stars to unlock the post-game content. I'm usually one who gets all the Stars in the Mario games, but there's no way in hell I'm bothering with that in this one. Unless I have nothing better to do and feeling masochistic or use a guide some ways down the road after I've unlocked everything else.

Also the final post-game area you unlock. Man, I hate that place. The lack of checkpoints really makes it annoying if you screw up and die. Made it 8 minutes past the second checkpoint or so and die by what I think is near the third checkpoint and I lose all the progress I made up until that point. I like the mechanics in it, but the lack of decent checkpoints in it makes it rather annoying. I ended up quitting for the day already, but I'll go back to it tomorrow before Zwei II to see if I can finish off that last area and maybe get the last 65 25 or so Stars I need to unlock everything in the shop.

EDIT: Also the game is really easy except for maybe the post-game content that does provide at least some challenge. Probably should have mentioned that since I was complaining about the final unlocked area.

 
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I beat Mario Odyssey yesterday since it arrived Thursday for me. It was a pretty fun game and the final sequence was quite enjoyable. However there is one thing I didn't like about it, which is how they went with the Stars this time around. Previous games they tended to have up to a rather small to fair amount of them per level. In this one they have a ton of them in every level. I'm not really keen on having to analyze every square meter of the game all the time. It feels less tailored for my experience with regards to Stars and more random and chaotic which isn't something I really want in a Mario game honestly. Granted you don't need all of them to unlock everything post-game and there is an alternative way to gain Stars to unlock the post-game content. I'm usually one who gets all the Stars in the Mario games, but there's no way in hell I'm bothering with that in this one. Unless I have nothing better to do and feeling masochistic or use a guide some ways down the road after I've unlocked everything else.

Also the final post-game area you unlock. Man, I hate that place. The lack of checkpoints really makes it annoying if you screw up and die. Made it 8 minutes past the second checkpoint or so and die by what I think is near the third checkpoint and I lose all the progress I made up until that point. I like the mechanics in it, but the lack of decent checkpoints in it makes it rather annoying. I ended up quitting for the day already, but I'll go back to it tomorrow before Zwei II to see if I can finish off that last area and maybe get the last 65 25 or so Stars I need to unlock everything in the shop.

EDIT: Also the game is really easy except for maybe the post-game content that does provide at least some challenge. Probably should have mentioned that since I was complaining about the final unlocked area.
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Yeah, I'm playing through it now and I agree that they should have trimmed the number of moons. I read a review that put the number around
800
, which seems excessive. It feels like less of an achievement to get one when so many are scattered around and lessens the value of the hard to get ones. Still having fun though :)

 
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Guess the moons are kind of like the korok seeds in BotW. :D I'll just find what I need to complete the post-game in Odyssey since there's no achievement to go for.

 
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Yeah I was a bit concerned with how many moons there are. I haven't picked up the game yet though, planning on doing so soon, but hoping for the best

In other news I watched Frozen the other day and I thought it was... unexpectedly decent/kinda good lol

 
I should have the story of Odyssey completed tomorrow.

I don't mind that there is so many moons to collect. I do however hate that they are just there to collect, there is no real bonus for collecting more than what's required for the game. It would of been nice to have certain unlocks or something after so many collected. So it's like you can do this extra collecting but it's meaningless. So what that means for me is collecting until I get tired of that then onto Yakuza 0.

I also got Yakuza Kiwami as a birthday gift but that will be for a later date next year because I will be onto Xenoblade Chronicles 2 after Yakuza 0.

 
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Well, I've got two Mario Odyssey games, and no NS to play em on, go figure? Long story...........but the short version involves Amazon & USPS, so that should make things clear. LOL

I did sell my sons NES Classic today along with some of his Wii U games, so I should be getting his NS within the next few weeks. So long as all the buyers pay for their items.

 
Saw this earlier, immediately knew it belonged here

[media]https://twitter.com/DealSeeker2U/status/924843963022020608[/media]

 
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Finally completed the last stage this morning. Man, there was one more bullshit area after the part where I died a couple times. It wouldn't have been so bad if I could have had a closer checkpoint since it takes so long to get back there.

Covnam said:
Yeah, I'm playing through it now and I agree that they should have trimmed the number of moons. I read a review that put the number around
800
, which seems excessive. It feels like less of an achievement to get one when so many are scattered around and lessens the value of the hard to get ones. Still having fun though :)
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That number is a little on the low side, but yeah, it's not far off.

Sir_Fragalot said:
I don't mind that there is so many moons to collect. I do however hate that they are just there to collect, there is no real bonus for collecting more than what's required for the game. It would of been nice to have certain unlocks or something after so many collected. So it's like you can do this extra collecting but it's meaningless. So what that means for me is collecting until I get tired of that then onto Yakuza 0.
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Unlocks are as follows:

Bonus Areas are unlocked at:
250 & 500.
All shop items are unlocked by:
560.

Getting all [customspoiler=###]883[/customspoiler] Moons unlocks something, but no stage or shop items.
[customspoiler=###]999[/customspoiler] Moons unlocks something, but no stage or shop items.

I've already looked up the two final unlocks that I'm never going to get. They're not anything particularly worthwhile.

 
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Monster Hunter: World featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series Aloy from the Horizon: Zero Dawn series

Monster Hunter: World PS4-only beta begins December 9, Horizon: Zero Dawn collaboration announced

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qrz3zysD7cU

Sucker Punch has finally gone full weeaboo, after their Infamous series being inspired by Misaka Mikoto they're now going all out by making a full fledged samurai game. I NEED HEALING!

Sucker Punch announces Ghost of Tsushima for PS4
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUz539AeC5Y
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HftJIAiidMo
 
BRW's GOTY gets more DLC!
 
Final Fantasy XV DLC ‘Episode Ignis’ launches December 13
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AUAhEQa0NU
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB_pt_D9CVg
 
I expect a Reign Over Me remake using SotC Remake
 
Shadow Of The Colossus Remake Arrives February 6, 2018
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-eiJHiLhOs
 
I'm buying this game for my love BlackRockWaifu!
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvmx94cUVEY
 
Daisy Ridley voices Rey in this game so I get to play as my waifu while hearing my waifu while playing with my BlackRockWaifu
 
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chrislaustin said:
Well, I've got two Mario Odyssey games, and no NS to play em on, go figure? Long story...........but the short version involves Amazon & USPS, so that should make things clear. LOL

I did sell my sons NES Classic today along with some of his Wii U games, so I should be getting his NS within the next few weeks. So long as all the buyers pay for their items.
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i havent gone that far yet, since theirs not many games worth playing besides first party, still waiting to go their, but learning the hard way with past purchases have bought some accessories in anticipation for when i do as some of those get hard to find especially as consoles change designs

 
Sucker Punch game sounds neat, Monster Hunter looks neat, Shadow of The Colossus remake still seems pointless, FFXV is whatever (sorry BRW).
 
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Reggie Fils-Aime Hints at a Possible New Donkey Kong Game

Monster Hunter: World Gets Beta Dates for PS Plus Members

Shadow of the Colossus Releases February 2018; Two Beautiful New Trailers Highlight the World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-eiJHiLhOs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA-AjT0Qbrg

Final Fantasy XV: Episode Ignis Gets New Trailer at Paris Games Week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AUAhEQa0NU

Loco Roco 2 Remastered Release Date Announced; New Trailer Revealed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SThjlBrxl6M

Resident Evil 7 Not A Hero Trailer Looks At Lucas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnlYQYaUG0Y

North American Pokemon Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon commercial

Rumor: Zelda: Breath of the Wild getting Explorer’s bundle

Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns Gets New DLC That Lets Players Romance Stephanie and Woofio

Updated total sales for Atlus / SEGA franchises – Sonic, Megami Tensei, Etrian Odyssey, more

 
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Anyone own Exist Archive? Thoughts? Yes, I already checked the trophy guide lol, getting 100% on all dungeons seems to be the big one. At least u can do as many saves as u want to shorten replay time lol.

It has been dropping in the last few days, was gonna have Best Buy price match it so I can earn points too since Amazon sucks on the cashback portal front, only thing I've been using with Amazon is the JetBlue portal.

Was $10.25 when I was at work, now I'm home ready to have BBY PM it, it's only $10.08... think I'll order when it's under $10 lol.

:ps4: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01ESA0W3C/ $10.08

:vita: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01ESA0W96/ $7.33 PSTV Compatible! yay! (yea I'm aware of the hack lol)

 
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~starlight~ said:
Anyone own Exist Archive? Thoughts? Yes, I already checked the trophy guide lol, getting 100% on all dungeons seems to be the big one. At least u can do as many saves as u want to shorten replay time lol.

It has been dropping in the last few days, was gonna have Best Buy price match it so I can earn points too since Amazon sucks on the cashback portal front, only thing I've been using with Amazon is the JetBlue portal.

Was $10.25 when I was at work, now I'm home ready to have BBY PM it, it's only $10.08... think I'll order when it's under $10 lol.

:ps4: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01ESA0W3C/ $10.08

:vita: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01ESA0W96/ $7.33 PSTV Compatible! yay! (yea I'm aware of the hack lol)
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Personally the sidescrolling dungeons and regularly going through doors on the depth plane didn't really click with me at all. I'm not sure how to explain it. It's like you're exploring an onion on a 2D plane as a sidescroller and regularly changing the depth of it you're on?

I didn't play much of it for this reason.

 
^ I didn't care too much for Exist Archive either personally. Got bored pretty quickly. I think the last straw for me was getting to a boss and not having the right character attack type in my party, so it was impossible to win. They eventually give you more types than can fit in your party at once. I'm not a big fan of those kinds of mechanics that require that outside of the standard tank/healer setup in other games, which can often be subverted through alternative means.

Also, [customspoiler='Happy']
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9bu0Ge25js[/customspoiler] [customspoiler='Halloween']
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av78r69-w64[/customspoiler] to all you weird ass people.

 
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~starlight~ said:
Anyone own Exist Archive? Thoughts? Yes, I already checked the trophy guide lol, getting 100% on all dungeons seems to be the big one. At least u can do as many saves as u want to shorten replay time lol.

It has been dropping in the last few days, was gonna have Best Buy price match it so I can earn points too since Amazon sucks on the cashback portal front, only thing I've been using with Amazon is the JetBlue portal.

Was $10.25 when I was at work, now I'm home ready to have BBY PM it, it's only $10.08... think I'll order when it's under $10 lol.

:ps4: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01ESA0W3C/ $10.08

:vita: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01ESA0W96/ $7.33 PSTV Compatible! yay! (yea I'm aware of the hack lol)
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@TooPoor oh we fucked up.

 
^ Yep, mine shipped out yesterday and is out for delivery. I'll be playing Zwei later today though. Kinda wish I could have gotten the CE for its art book, but oh well.

 
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~starlight~ said:
Anyone own Exist Archive? Thoughts? Yes, I already checked the trophy guide lol, getting 100% on all dungeons seems to be the big one. At least u can do as many saves as u want to shorten replay time lol.

It has been dropping in the last few days, was gonna have Best Buy price match it so I can earn points too since Amazon sucks on the cashback portal front, only thing I've been using with Amazon is the JetBlue portal.

Was $10.25 when I was at work, now I'm home ready to have BBY PM it, it's only $10.08... think I'll order when it's under $10 lol.

:ps4: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01ESA0W3C/ $10.08

:vita: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01ESA0W96/ $7.33 PSTV Compatible! yay! (yea I'm aware of the hack lol)
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*Gasp* The Queen of GS Flipping graces us with her presence.

Lol, I have nothing to add as I haven't played the game, just wanted to say that. But I do have the pre-order artbook/CD thing they gave out, and I took a few pictures here. The art seems pretty darn neat if that helps.

https://imgur.com/a/bZKBY

 
Free weekly PSN junk:

SNK Stuff

PS4

- ACA NEOGEO 1st Anniversary Theme

Not really seeing anything else this week really. This is the last week to grab October's PS+ games if you're subbed. November's games should be announced tomorrow. Sales wise is the Double Discount Sale that sucks if you don't have PS+. If you do though, I recommend Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition as it's really cheap. Not Japanese, but it's a turn-based strategy RPG in the more D&D style of games.

 
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Supplice said:
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night courtyard and Zangetsu battle gameplay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co-h7zOA8yY
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It's looking solid, I'm not knocking myself out with any of the clips so far. But for a game still at this point in development, there's room for improvements, no doubt. It gets better with each new video, so I can see their efforts, and that's all I can ask for really.

They better not cancel the Vita version, or I'm gonna be pissed. LOL I would probably just switch over the the NS if that ever happens, but I'll just have to wait and see for now.

 
I know there's a lot of JPN Niche CAG members here who live in New York like BlackRockWaifu and Motaku96, hope everyone of you and your families are safe from today's tragedy.

 
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I can't justify buying the English version when I already have the physical version of DX & the controller coming later this month. 

 
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PS Vita 16GB Value Pack to launch on November 22 in Japan

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Project Nimbus: Code Mirai Shows PS4 Version in New Gameplay Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ5nrHWG8Zw

Okami HD for PS4, Xbox One, and PC ‘Celestial Brush’ and ‘Demon Introduction’ gameplay videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M_-01H-epo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqYuVo011f4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3IcDxZUluQ

Voez version 1.3 out on November 9 with 14 more songs

Dragon Ball FighterZ third trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAjZBKwA60w

Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown Paris Games Week 2017 trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwHeUiC7u3M

Atlus files various corporate trademarks such as Atlus Game Studio and Atlus Software

 
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