Japanese Niche Games Deals & Discussion Thread 4.0

[shivan128]

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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[Tothoro]

I don’t tend to pay much attention to these limited run physical edition game publishers, does anyone have experience with Superdeluxe? Thinking of picking up their version of the Earthion LE, it’s a little less ridiculous than LRG’s.

Superdeluxe is a joint venture between LRG and 8-4. Their stuff tends to have a better reputation than LRG's, but they're in Asia and whether they do/don't ship to America has flipped back and forth a few times. They also do a lot fewer games so their production line isn't anywhere near as congested as LRG's and I'd trust their shipping estimates more. But at the end of the day it still indirectly supports LRG, so depending on what your qualm is it might or might not be helping address it.

 

[TheKbob]

Speaking of FOMO, I bought some FF MTG cards today. I haven't done that in over 20 years.

Was fun and the cards look great, but man, it's expensive. Seventy bucks for a collector's booster? I guess old man me wants my $2.85 booster packs from yore.

Neat set to collect. Won't play it, but I'll get the FFX cards to display

 

[swordity]

Please tell me there's a card themed around the kid who wants to transition into a blitzball

 

[Xenogears]

You just mislabeled the blitzball as a kid rather than an object as is their preference. Your going to jail now.

 

[Souffrir]

Did you just assume blitzballs can’t be children?

 

[swordity]

He was a kid he wanted to be a blitzball when he grew up, hence the use of the word transition (denoting a change over time).

I'm starting to think you're (not your) genuinely illiterate...

 

[TheKbob]

There are blitzball cards, yes. I'm too out of touch with the children to know the reference.

Also, blitzball sucks. Worst part of FFX.

 

[swordity]

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/47ai4z

I've actually met people who enjoy the blitzball parts of FFX it's wild

 

[Xenogears]

He was a kid he wanted to be a blitzball when he grew up, hence the use of the word transition (denoting a change over time).

I'm starting to think you're (not your) genuinely illiterate...

No, you don’t understand how your own BS works apparently. He views himself as a blitzball, therefore it is a blitzball. The proper pronoun is it, not kid or he. Just an attempt at a friendly joke anyway, but never mind, I’ll go back to ignoring jerks as I should.

 

[swordity]

Kid isn't a pronoun, it's a regular noun and borrowed from the term for a young goat to informally refer to a human child. It's typically an American English thing, not usual in British English.

 

[Xenogears]

Ok, their proper noun / pronoun.

 

[swordity]

As far as I know the kid doesn't have a canonical name or proper noun in the story he's just an NPC

 

[Vigilante]

 

[Vinny]

Speaking of FOMO, I bought some FF MTG cards today. I haven't done that in over 20 years.

Was fun and the cards look great, but man, it's expensive. Seventy bucks for a collector's booster? I guess old man me wants my $2.85 booster packs from yore.

Neat set to collect. Won't play it, but I'll get the FFX cards to display

I've been trying to buy some of the... more "collectors edition" sets I guess (I dunno what they're called) and jesus, it's flat out impossible. And then I saw the after market prices and I guess I know why.

Also, I'm the opposite- Blitzball was dope, I loved it but didn't care for most of FFX... found it kinda whiny.

 

[TheKbob]

I've been trying to buy some of the... more "collectors edition" sets I guess (I dunno what they're called) and jesus, it's flat out impossible. And then I saw the after market prices and I guess I know why.

Also, I'm the opposite- Blitzball was dope, I loved it but didn't care for most of FFX... found it kinda whiny.

I found some at my local shop, but they're in tight with a bigger distributor. As he was selling stuff while I was there, he got three more cars in stock.

Supposedly they're going to run this series for quite some time as long as it sells. So as long as you're not after the collector's packs, it'll be available.

BTW, $70 for a pack of cards?!

 

[Covnam]

I got some FF magic cards today as well. Looking forward to going through them tomorrow .
The collector packs are supposed to be ~$40 I believe, so if you're seeing $70+ it's just marked up at a store or someone reselling it

 

[Xenogears]

What if blitzball is actually the landmine Tidus kicks when he is sad cause Yuna dumped him so he kicks what looks like a blitzball but it’s actually a landmine then he blows up and dies in front of her?

Apparantly in FFX-2 Creature Creator fiend tales there is a story of a kid named, wait for it, Bomb. Bomb wanted to become a blitzball player with his friend when they grew up. Bomb ends up dying and in a cutscene ghost visits his friend after learning he hasn’t been practicing since his death and convinces his friend to practice again by becoming a Blitzball.

I think the NPCs name is bomb, it is a blitzball and it eventually goes back in time to blow up Tidus after Yuna dumps him for someone else, maybe blitzball?

 

[Vinny]

I found some at my local shop, but they're in tight with a bigger distributor. As he was selling stuff while I was there, he got three more cars in stock.

Supposedly they're going to run this series for quite some time as long as it sells. So as long as you're not after the collector's packs, it'll be available.

BTW, $70 for a pack of cards?!

Yeah, unfortunately I'm a sucker for collectors stuff so... been trying to get the collectors editions but I'm not an MTG person by any means so I can prob live.

 

[shadowysea07]

There are blitzball cards, yes. I'm too out of touch with the children to know the reference.

Also, blitzball sucks. Worst part of FFX.

I put about 30 hours into that. It only sucks till you can dump most of the original team( besides tidus wakka and the goalie i want to say.) And recruit characters with marginally better skills and stats.

The skill system iirc was kinda weird cross between front mission 3s and breath of fire 4s. So it could be frustrating at times.

Plus tidus unique stuff if you completed the timed qte sidequest on the boat makes a difference iirc.

I also loved the card game in ff8 and 1/3rd of my playtime was spent on it. Until it took too long to reset shuffle the npcs to get the normal rules set.

 

[Tothoro]

The only team member you need for Blitzball is Brother. The rest of the team are placeholders.

 

[nightc1]

Speaking of FOMO, I bought some FF MTG cards today. I haven't done that in over 20 years.

Was fun and the cards look great, but man, it's expensive. Seventy bucks for a collector's booster? I guess old man me wants my $2.85 booster packs from yore.

Neat set to collect. Won't play it, but I'll get the FFX cards to display

I find this somewhat funny after all the resistance for the Switch 2 it's paper products that brought out the FOMO. I guess we all have our weaknesses. I'm not even a fan of FFX. Being on rails made it feel like I wasn't even role playing and I just couldn't engage with the characters despite how overly cinematic it was. I ended up bored and gave up.