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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I’ve never sold a game, and have only permanently given away like, four. I still have all the packaging, manuals, and everything else that came in the box for my games going back to the DMG and Genesis.

Because, as it turns out, most of what I have is worth less than what it was bought for, or at the very best is worth about its original MSRP after taking inflation into account. The one game I have that’s actually worth anything is the Drakengard 3 CE, still sealed in box. Part of me is tempted to sell it, but the only reason I never opened it is because my stupid PS3 died. I still wanna play the damn thing, I just can’t find a cheap PS3 in good condition and Sony still hasn’t released a console since then that can play PS3 discs.

Probably going to get frame-perfect PS3 emulation before they do, at this rate.

I guess the most valuable game I ever parted with was My World, My Way for DS, which I found pretty dull and traded to a friend in exchange for her buying me Avalon Code. Which is a much better game, so even though it retailed for less and is worth significantly less on ebay these days, I still don’t consider it a real loss.
 
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Souffrir said:
I’ve never sold a game, and have only permanently given away like, four. I still have all the packaging, manuals, and everything else that came in the box for my games going back to the DMG and Genesis.

Because, as it turns out, most of what I have is worth less than what it was bought for, or at the very best is worth about its original MSRP after taking inflation into account. The one game I have that’s actually worth anything is the Drakengard 3 CE, still sealed in box. Part of me is tempted to sell it, but the only reason I never opened it is because my stupid PS3 died. I still wanna play the damn thing, I just can’t find a cheap PS3 in good condition and Sony still hasn’t released a console since then that can play PS3 discs.

Probably going to get frame-perfect PS3 emulation before they do, at this rate.

I guess the most valuable game I ever parted with was My World, My Way for DS, which I found pretty dull and traded to a friend in exchange for her buying me Avalon Code. Which is a much better game, so even though it retailed for less and is worth significantly less on ebay these days, I still don’t consider it a real loss.
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I just find that hard to believe... if you have all the original box/manual for GB games (dunno about Genesis), they should be worth a decent bit, more than their original MSRP unless you're factoring in inflation or unless you just have a ton of sports games or shovelware (like card/casino game collections). Even common stuff like Mario Land or Donkey Kong goes for like $70 if they're CIB.

Also, a working slim or super slim PS3 is pretty easy I thought. I found one that's super rough shape that I got in some lot and it works fine. Just need to clean it out and then might use it as my backup PS3 and retire software BC model.

I also need finish cataloging my entire collection in GameEye before I know for sure what my most valuable game is, I think it was my sealed LoU Post Pandamic but I think some of the Pokemon bundles or maybe Pokemon Box are going for more now. I think I'm like half-way done but it's so... time consuming. 🫠
 
Grabbed Xenoblade Chronicles X. Was pretty tempted on Mario Wonder, but I’m hoping it’ll go cheaper by the holdiays.

Still tempted to grab AA Investigations, but I think I prefer playing that series on DS/3DS.
 
Happy to see official confirmation, even though Yuri Lowenthal basically confirmed its existence and his own absence a couple weeks ago. I'm ok with them casting new VAs that sound more like kids. As long as they are cast as a natural performance and not forced to awkwardly come as close as possible to the original English VA (P3R's Yukari, cringe).

I imagine there will at minimum be a $25 expansion pass locking the Marie dungeon.
 
gospelman said:
Happy to see official confirmation, even though Yuri Lowenthal basically confirmed its existence and his own absence a couple weeks ago. I'm ok with them casting new VAs that sound more like kids. As long as they are cast as a natural performance and not forced to awkwardly come as close as possible to the original English VA (P3R's Yukari, cringe).

I imagine there will at minimum be a $25 expansion pass locking the Marie dungeon.
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Wouldn't they have to make significant updates to the overall storyline to account for people without that dungeon? Unlike The Answer, the added content from Golden is sprinkled throughout all of P4 thanks to Marie, so to block that culmination of her arc would be a new scummy low for Atlus...

...So yeah, I guess I could see them doing that.
 
Asset flips of 5s engine so from a "it will make money" stance I can't fault them on that.

I'll admit when the vanilla remakes bottom out in price I'll consider picking them up.
 
Woot seems to be the only place that has consistent sales on niche games anymore. And I've never gotten a non-ESRB copy for any game yet from them (though I don't usually order Nintendo published games from them and I hear they are the major problems with that).
 
I do agree Woot is the place to get NISA (especially Trails but all other games as well), Sega games, PQube, Aksys, Iffy, XSeed and many other just more smaller developer games. Gamestop does still give good niche discounts (and also very iffy NEW copies), but Woot is becoming my top choice. As I mentioned before since more Otome games come out I've been only buying a few on release that I'm more excited for and I'm able to get the others discounted later if I want them. BB, Walmart and Target are not my go tos as much for niche games that drop in price (may be ok to order from them but they don't get very much inventory usually), so we as CAGs got to get the better prices whenever we can.
 
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Woot seems to be the only place that has consistent sales on niche games anymore. And I've never gotten a non-ESRB copy for any game yet from them (though I don't usually order Nintendo published games from them and I hear they are the major problems with that).
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Imports only seem to be a common issue for 1st party NS games, which is also the only time I see that "might get an import" warning. I've never gotten import 3rd party NS game, those have always been ESRB copies.
 
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