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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Nothing371 said:
Do you guys use a guide when playing Persona? You know, just for the classroom questions and social link order to best advance and max out your attributes.
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No. this is a game I will replay. I'll get that perfect playthrough eventually. I may check out how to optimize a playthrough after the first time though.
 
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Commodore Wheeler said:
Is this game any good?
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I enjoyed it a lot. The game is repetitive at times, but the feeling of taking out the Titans as efficiently as possible as well as grouping up with 3 other people online bring up a whole new meaning to titan-killing machine.

I'm tempted to re-buy this game since Season 2 just started. The game being on sale might push me towards it.
 
I actually almost 100% Persona 3 without a guide. I also restarted mid game....cause i forgot what was happening after taking a break. P4 i just went through it as well. I will do the same with Persona 5. I will say i really don't like playing games with guides. I use it for some (mainly Yakuza side stories.....some are very, very hard to find), but for the most part i refuse to use guides.

People are very entitled and just use the guides to 100% the stories and 100% the trophies. No sense of adventure from people anymore. I use them as a last resort, such as an ending I can't get in a visual novel, or to actually find the sub stories for the Yakuza games (doesn't help with the mass amount of loading everywhere).

 
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Nothing371 said:
Do you guys use a guide when playing Persona? You know, just for the classroom questions and social link order to best advance and max out your attributes.
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I used a guide for the outdoor bath section of my first Persona 3 playthrough because
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Otherwise, I've only used persona fusion guides.
 
Will be using a spoiler free guide for Persona 5 so I can get all Confidant, social attributes, mementos, books, and video game in one play through.  I am only going to play the game once and I want to get the most out of my experience.

 
I might use a max social link / max attributes guide.  I don't plan on doing a second playthrough of a 100+ hour game.  Plus it's nice to see the romances. 

 
Nothing371 said:
Do you guys use a guide when playing Persona? You know, just for the classroom questions and social link order to best advance and max out your attributes.
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Yes. Mostly because I don't know jpn crap so alot of the questions are either that or google much like digimon cyber sluts.

Anywho finished cold steel 2 finally. Put over 86 hours into that. Didn't think it would take over a month to finish.

My next game poll is up for those who want to vote. https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/220-rpgs-everything-else/75188739

 
Does anyone know what the current situation is on Fire Emblem Echoes LE? I was going to hope for a restock at amazon, but if doesn't go through, is it still available anywhere else?

 
motaku96 said:
Does anyone know what the current situation is on Fire Emblem Echoes LE? I was going to hope for a restock at amazon, but if doesn't go through, is it still available anywhere else?
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gamestop and nintendo are the only other places I know of. Edit nintendo lists best buy and walmart as sellers too. best buy and gamestop list as sold out. good luck trying to get one since fire emblem always sells out and is super hard to get the le/ce for. Short of restocks or popping up on awd your only other shot is scalpers.

 
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Nothing371 said:
Do you guys use a guide when playing Persona? You know, just for the classroom questions and social link order to best advance and max out your attributes.
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About 90% sure I'm gonna do a clean playthrough first since I have waited for this game so long, feels like I'd be ruining it with a guide. I definitely know using trophy guides in some other games has ruined the enjoyment for me

 
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62t said:
Will be using a spoiler free guide for Persona 5 so I can get all Confidant, social attributes, mementos, books, and video game in one play through. I am only going to play the game once and I want to get the most out of my experience.
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Do you have a link to a spolier free guide?

 
I used a guide on my 2nd playthrough of P4G, had to the first one I kinda butchered it not knowing what I was doing.  :whistle2:

 
Nope, didn't use a guide for any of my 1st or some of the 2nd play through of Persona games.  I really don't like using guides on 1st play through since it sorta kills the immersion when you have to look off screen and look up stuff.  I just want to enjoy the story on the 1st go.

 
Check out this lil muffin.  

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I got six female Corrins.  Saved one just in case I want to inherit Hone Attack to someone.  Gonna build her up to +10 in no time if she keeps wasting my rolls.  It's almost like having a 5star.  Just missing 3 atk points from the weapon really.  Her promoted version only has 11 more skill points. 

Got to 4,436 arena score this week.  Still not a single successful defense.  Apparently I still don't have the right guys to get a proper defense.  I change it up all the time, there might be something up with the matchmaking.  No defenses four weeks straight.

 
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Amazon CS got back to me and are now claiming that the shipping address I put down is "not active". 
 
WHUT? I literally bought an item from Amazon last week with the "inactive" address. This is absolutely ridiculous. (excuses used so far: hazardous materials, unable to charge payment method, and now "inactive address")
 
EDIT: Apparently my address was "inactive" and I had to "update" to the same damn address I have always been using.
 
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Yeah, you're getting screwed with some bad excuses. My Amazon copy shipped out today via USPS and is set to arrive Tuesday. Usually it ships out Monday for me with games. They've also certainly been using USPS a lot more frequently lately. Should come in a box based on its size. I'd almost like to see Amazon attempt to fit it in some giant bubble mailer though.

As for the guide thing, I wouldn't use one for Persona 5 on the first playthrough. I consider everything such as social links part of the main game and not really part of some optional side event or hidden . In other games I pretty much never use them either except for the rare non-story side things, like a checklist of finding those stupid god damned books in Trails games. Second playthroughs and later however, I don't mind using a guide to optimize the run. Though with how things are releasing, I don't see a second playthrough of Persona 5 happening anytime soon and that's fine by me. Cosmic Star Heroine is next week and hopefully Trails in the Sky the 3rd soon after.

 
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Nothing371 said:
Check out this lil muffin.

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I got six female Corrins. Saved one just in case I want to inherit Hone Attack to someone. Gonna build her up to +10 in no time if she keeps wasting my rolls. It's almost like having a 5star. Just missing 3 atk points from the weapon really. Her promoted version only has 11 more skill points.

Got to 4,436 arena score this week. Still not a single successful defense. Apparently I still don't have the right guys to get a proper defense. I change it up all the time, there might be something up with the matchmaking. No defenses four weeks straight.
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You gotta design a team to get 1 kill rather than a team that can win. A lot of people give up after 1 death since it ruins a streak.
 
lBleachl said:
I enjoyed it a lot. The game is repetitive at times, but the feeling of taking out the Titans as efficiently as possible as well as grouping up with 3 other people online bring up a whole new meaning to titan-killing machine.

I'm tempted to re-buy this game since Season 2 just started. The game being on sale might push me towards it.
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I just watch the first episode of the new season on Hulu and enjoyed seeing all the old characters again.

Then sad cause I watched the first season straight through in a weekend, and no I have to watch it week by week.

I have been interested in the game and nice to know it has multiplayer.

 
Anyone have the Take Your Heart Edition of Persona 5 that actually shipped from Best Buy? It's out tomorrow, but damn mine still says preparing since Thursday...
 
Mine hasn't shipped at all! Same thing happened with my Switch. Shipped late and I got it 2 days late... This one I will be pissed about... Been waiting forever and a day to play... 👎
 
DarthPwner said:
Anyone have the Take Your Heart Edition of Persona 5 that actually shipped from Best Buy? It's out tomorrow, but damn mine still says preparing since Thursday...
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I got notification from UPS that I have a package from BBY being delivered today. I don't recall having ordered anything else that would be coming in from them, so pretty sure getting mine early today. :D/

 
DarthPwner said:
Anyone have the Take Your Heart Edition of Persona 5 that actually shipped from Best Buy? It's out tomorrow, but damn mine still says preparing since Thursday...
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Mine shipped this morning. They always ship the day before. Usually things are sent from a warehouse 30min. away but sometimes it comes from a couple states away and still makes it here in one day.

 
DarthPwner said:
Anyone have the Take Your Heart Edition of Persona 5 that actually shipped from Best Buy? It's out tomorrow, but damn mine still says preparing since Thursday...
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Mine still says preparing since around Thursday as well. My stuff normally ships 1-2 days before release, but it would have already shipped in the morning if it was the day before usually. So I'm not sure what is going on with our orders.

 
It's a Xmas miracle! My P5 TYH edition arrived from Amazon...in a box...with air bags! It is in perfect condition. I wonder if that's cuz it shipped via USPS and not UPS?

I hope the best for all you other Amazon purchasers!

 
PSA to anyone wants 5* heroes in fire emblem heroes. The wyvern and Pegasus banners are fantastic banners to pull from. If you pull only greens or blues from the respective banners your chance at getting a 5* unit is 16% and 14% respectively instead of the 6% shown. This is due to the larger amount of 5* characters available compared to the total pool of characters of said color. Also the banners have great units too.
 
AMZ Weekly Lightning Deal: :pS4: Steins;Gate 0 $30

Gotta pick up my P5 TYH in store at Best Buy tmrw since that's the only stock they had... but I gotta wake up early and walk 20 minutes for it... Anyone else picking it up in person(a)?

 
BlackRockWaifu said:
AMZ Weekly Lightning Deal: :ps4: Steins;Gate 0 $30

Gotta pick up my P5 TYH in store at Best Buy tmrw since that's the only stock they had... but I gotta wake up early and walk 20 minutes for it... Anyone else picking it up in person(a)?
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Of course - can't wait on a package to get to my place, even if Best Buy generally gets it to me on release day! Going in the morning tomorrow, since Tuesday's are my least busy day (I purposely have my schedule that way haha)

 
 
BlackRockWaifu said:
Gotta pick up my P5 TYH in store at Best Buy tmrw since that's the only stock they had... but I gotta wake up early and walk 20 minutes for it... Anyone else picking it up in person(a)?
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Yup, got the email today so going to pick it up tmr. Also my Amazon order will be coming in tmr. Let see which one is in the better condition lol.

 
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