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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Girls in Glasses Impression:

I'll be honest, this visual novel is not super impressive. It is a doujin effort, and it sounded interesting enough. Honestly it's a very simple game where you play a guy and are kind of bored in school, and it's spring and you meet 3 girls with glasses and have a friend with glasses.

The story is really very simple where you interact with said 3 girls and your friend and start up some romance and such. I actually somewhat liked the simplicity.

The visuals were honestly pretty well done other than one girl having a big forehead. It's not as noticeable later, but it is at first. The other 2 are decently cute and well drawn though. It honestly felt somewhat like something I would see in Majikoi or Da Capo or a bunch of other school based VN.

The music is pretty forgettable and  I had to turn it down as the voices weren't loud enough. It was annoying but not terrible. The voices were well done, though the main guys childhood friend has a pretty annoying voice.

The game is very short and I pretty much completed everything in about 6 hours or maybe less. The stories were OK for the most part, with a bit of slice of life and some drama here and there. The problem was it didn't have a good epilogue or stuff showing more about the relationships. It also commits the cardinal sin of ending where the story should begin and open up. Also hoodie girl's route had an error in it that messes up a scene. You can still see her ending by skipping the scene. Hopefully Denpasoft patches that.

I would recommend the game for super cheap like $2 or so, but honestly it's more of a pass. It's not deep enough, and the stories zoom by after completing the first one. They also could have had maybe 1 or 2 more routes too as 3 was not enough. Wasn't expensive, but not worth its full price. 

5.5/10

 
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NeoMonk said:
Voting Link I'm not saying vote for #1... but vote for #1!
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I liked 6 best, I voted for it. Plus 1 is already the cover of the LE box.

IIRC 6 won when they did the same contest for the PS4/Vita version of the game.
 
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Fate/Extella Link Karna, Iskandar, Archimedes, and Altera short gameplay videos

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Record of Grancrest War Has Events And Battles From The Novel With Your Own Tactics

PS Plus Japan Gets Bloodborne, Downwell, And Metal Slug Anthology For March 2018

 
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https://twitter.com/IdeaFactoryIntl/status/971172798126174208

Do note that it's considerably more expensive than it was when it released in japan(12,870yen or approx $120+shipping).

But it's pretty much sold out everywhere now and the places that do still have it are charging more than this.

 
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Wow, that Purple Heart figure is pretty expensive....even if it is 1/7th scale.

I've kinda held off on buying scale figures for a while since I don't have any more room for them lol.

I believe the last one I got was last year in August, I think? (the 1/8th scale sleepy Nep with the dogoo pillow thing)

I also haven't recently seen any figures that I NEED, which is kinda good since that used to burn a huge hole in my wallet....

Now I can just focus that money on adding more games to my backlog, that I will never get to play  ;)

 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=480SuGYpcCE

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvlevip95co

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PckZ0T_k72Y

Atelier Lydie & Suelle English gameplay

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

 
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whoknows said:
3DS will never die.

Because the Switch isn't a 3DS replacement.
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I'm pretty sure most of the 3DS time will be devoted to Detective Pikachu, as it's the last big "N" title the system has and it's due out in a few weeks(with a big expensive amiibo they need to advertise). Maybe they have a few bones left out in the yard, but the 3DS is all but over. And since "N" combined their handheld & console R&D years ago, with little to no first party titles for the NS at this point. I seriously doubt there is any other dedicated handheld coming from them, especially with how well the NS is doing. They just don't have the resources to make games for two systems anymore(and never really did to begin with).

 
chrislaustin said:
I'm pretty sure most of the 3DS time will be devoted to Detective Pikachu, as it's the last big "N" title the system has and it's due out in a few weeks(with a big expensive amiibo they need to advertise). Maybe they have a few bones left out in the yard, but the 3DS is all but over. And since "N" combined their handheld & console R&D years ago, with little to no first party titles for the NS at this point. I seriously doubt there is any other dedicated handheld coming from them, especially with how well the NS is doing. They just don't have the resources to make games for two systems anymore(and never really did to begin with).
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Nintendo not having the resources to make games for multiple platforms is always a bad excuse. Mainly because Nintendo isn't the only developer that makes games for the 3DS, but people seem to act like they are.
 
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Rumor is that Fire Emblem 16 for the Switch is going to be unveiled during the Nintendo Direct tomorrow, with a launch date this summer. 

https://twitter.com/vandal_leaks/status/970637161379844096

 
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I enjoyed Awakening a few years ago, enough to think I was a Fire Emblem fan (I had only playing a bit of the first GBA FE before), so I tried playing Conquest recently but found the writing so bad that I had to drop it. Idk why, I know it's great from a gameplay perspective but I just felt no motivation to see how the plot would progress because Corrin seemed very stupid. I think that stemmed from the game being split into branching storylines with Birthright Conquest and Revelations, so I might be willing to give a Switch game a chance if it's not split up into multiple games and the writing is at least decent. Idk maybe it was just me

Worst comes to worst at least I liked Awakening and my boy Donnel haha

 
Fades said:
Would be nice if they released an adaptor that would let you play 3ds games on the Switch.
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It could plug into the USB-C port on the bottom of the unit. It would also come with a Switch-compatible stylus, and a special attachable grip that would let you orient the Switch vertically while you played it. (it would slide onto one side of the system, and then you could slide the JoyCons onto either side of the grip. Charge between $50-$75 for it, it would sell like hotcakes, and could keep 3DS software sales strong for years to come. (as well as open up the door for digital 3DS sales on the Switch, which could go on indefinitely)

It's a good idea, but I'm not sure if Nintendo would really want to go that route at this juncture. It all depends on whether or not they're planning on riding the 3DS for another couple years, or want to double-down on the current success of the Switch.

 
Richard Kain said:
It could plug into the USB-C port on the bottom of the unit. It would also come with a Switch-compatible stylus, and a special attachable grip that would let you orient the Switch vertically while you played it. (it would slide onto one side of the system, and then you could slide the JoyCons onto either side of the grip. Charge between $50-$75 for it, it would sell like hotcakes, and could keep 3DS software sales strong for years to come. (as well as open up the door for digital 3DS sales on the Switch, which could go on indefinitely)

It's a good idea, but I'm not sure if Nintendo would really want to go that route at this juncture. It all depends on whether or not they're planning on riding the 3DS for another couple years, or want to double-down on the current success of the Switch.
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Come on! This is Nintendo we are talking about here! They would sell something like this for $150 and also not allow us to re-download games we already own on the 3DS eShop.

 
ar4757 said:
I enjoyed Awakening a few years ago, enough to think I was a Fire Emblem fan (I had only playing a bit of the first GBA FE before), so I tried playing Conquest recently but found the writing so bad that I had to drop it. Idk why, I know it's great from a gameplay perspective but I just felt no motivation to see how the plot would progress because Corrin seemed very stupid. I think that stemmed from the game being split into branching storylines with Birthright Conquest and Revelations, so I might be willing to give a Switch game a chance if it's not split up into multiple games and the writing is at least decent. Idk maybe it was just me

Worst comes to worst at least I liked Awakening and my boy Donnel haha
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The writing in Conquest was deplorable. Birthright's and Revelation's was more tolerable, but overall I didn't really enjoy the storyline of fates. The gameplay is what keeps me coming back though.
 
I bought Conquest on one of the Best Buy GCU sales and after that opening sequence kept hoping for "Join the battle in Smash" to show up as a choice.

 
Fire Emblem has gotten worse, in my opinion, over the last few years. I prefer all of the older editions from the Wii, gamecube, and gba.
 
superxgaga said:
Waifu or bust, that's why I hated gaiden, I mean shadows of w.e u call it
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:(

But Shadows of Valentia had Celica, Mae, Faye, Genny, Delthea, Clair, Silque, Tatiana, Mathilda, Sonya, Palla, Catria and Est.....

I actually really enjoyed Shadows of Valentia. However, the fact that the character bonds were linear and a bit limited when compared to previous games, is probably the only minor gripe that I had with the game.

 
whoknows said:
Nintendo not having the resources to make games for multiple platforms is always a bad excuse. Mainly because Nintendo isn't the only developer that makes games for the 3DS, but people seem to act like they are.
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For sure the 3DS & DS had amazing 3rd party support. But the 3DS life cycle is over, if "N" doesn't show much for the 3DS from them during the direct, I don't expect anything from anybody else.

 
chrislaustin said:
For sure the 3DS & DS had amazing 3rd party support. But the 3DS life cycle is over, if "N" doesn't show much for the 3DS from them during the direct, I don't expect anything from anybody else.
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A good amount of third party games are still coming out for it though. The 3DS still has pretty good third party support.

Outside of Fire Emblem and Pokemon I don't think I have any first party games on 3DS. I don't really care much for Nintendo's other (active) franchises.

 
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Sigma said:
Come on! This is Nintendo we are talking about here! They would sell something like this for $150 and also not allow us to re-download games we already own on the 3DS eShop.
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$150? No. If they were going to do this, it would have to be competitively priced with the other lines of 3DS-compatible systems. As such, it couldn't push much higher than the standard 2DS. (which is essentially the same as what we're describing, functionally) That would cap the price at around $80, with the $50 - $75 being much more likely. $60 would be a decent compromise, I could see them charging that for such a product.

The thing is, even at that price they would be making a killing. All they would really need in terms of the hardware would be the 3DS cartridge slot interface, and a way to pass that through the USB-C efficiently. Everything else could be run off of the Switch's hardware. As such, the production costs for such a device would be low, well under $60 if they mass-produced it. This is why I think it's possible. It would be a relatively inexpensive way for Nintendo to promote the 3DS's software library while the system is on the way out.

I do agree with the second part of your statement, though. Yes, they would likely force you to purchase the digital games again on the eShop. (this time specifically for the Switch hardware) They've never wrapped their brains around platform agnostic purchases. They still lag far behind Sony in this regard, who have been way cooler about this sort of thing. All the PS1 games I've purchased off of PSN can be played on like 4 different platforms.

 
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ar4757 said:
I enjoyed Awakening a few years ago, enough to think I was a Fire Emblem fan (I had only playing a bit of the first GBA FE before), so I tried playing Conquest recently but found the writing so bad that I had to drop it. Idk why, I know it's great from a gameplay perspective but I just felt no motivation to see how the plot would progress because Corrin seemed very stupid. I think that stemmed from the game being split into branching storylines with Birthright Conquest and Revelations, so I might be willing to give a Switch game a chance if it's not split up into multiple games and the writing is at least decent. Idk maybe it was just me

Worst comes to worst at least I liked Awakening and my boy Donnel haha
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Go back to play the GBA games or Path of Radiance on GC. You can emulate most of them pretty easily. You will enjoy it. And the GBA games have great sprite work so the graphics don't feel like they aged at all.

 
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https://twitter.com/Ichikyo57/status/971770229872365569

Why isn't GUST promoting the Blue Reflection DLC?

 
Yeah, that looks like they modded Atelier and used the school map from Blue Reflection.

Guess they did that to show the unused assets from Blue Reflection.

 
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It's a premium DLC map in Atelier Lydie & Suelle. There's one from Nights of Azure 2 as well. They cost about 1,300 yen for each one.

 
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Ibacai said:
Fire Emblem has gotten worse, in my opinion, over the last few years. I prefer all of the older editions from the Wii, gamecube, and gba.
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Shadows of valentia is ok but celica is a horrible person and I find how they did the skill system completely effing stupid. You don't put in a skill learning system when you can't keep them. If you could permanently learn the skills from equipment that would justify it to an extent. Still prefer its skills over the awful and grindy ones from awakening-fates at least. But path of radiance/radiant dawn was the games that did it best. Speaking of which I still find celica more tolerable than radiant dawns awful girl.

dsman3717 said:
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But Shadows of Valentia had Celica, Mae, Faye, Genny, Delthea, Clair, Silque, Tatiana, Mathilda, Sonya, Palla, Catria and Est.....

I actually really enjoyed Shadows of Valentia. However, the fact that the character bonds were linear and a bit limited when compared to previous games, is probably the only minor gripe that I had with the game.
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celica outside appearance is not a positive.

motaku96 said:
Go back to play the GBA games or Path of Radiance on GC. You can emulate most of them pretty easily. You will enjoy it. And the GBA games have great sprite work so the graphics don't feel like they aged at all.
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I don't think they ever got path of radiance working emulation wise. the gba ones though I enjoyed emulating them on the wii so I played all 3 with path of radiance and radiant dawn that year in my marathon of fire emblem.

One major plus I will give esov is that archers can attack and counter from 1 space away again like they could in radiant dawn.

 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXYA9g9OYxA

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp88xPcsFH8

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If3lCdtO90U

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

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4-gTqNP1QY

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Amazon has PS4 Tokyo Xanadu eX+ Limited Edition on sale for $78.02 right now.  

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01NASW99J?th=1 

The MSRP seemed overpriced to me at 150, I'm still not sure if I'll order this or not.  Especially since the standard edition I ordered for 30 is supposed to arrive today.  FYI: Standard Edition is currently at 34.03.

 
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Pretty much everything I wanted to play on WiiU is coming to Switch. If they put Super Mario 3D world on it that would likely be most of my wants other than something like Mirage Sessions, which is not a super high want.

 
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