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.

A message from Thorbahn:

Our CAG Japanese Niche Games Thread also has a community on PS4, where you can interact and game with other members of the thread.

Our moderators are: Draekon, Las_Hole, and Waffleswanton

You can basically friend any of our members, or any moderator, and you will be able to request to join the community under "Communities friends are in" tab, and a mod will approve your request.

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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Another PSN sale highlight for this week is Ys Origin for $11.99, which is cross-buy (at least if you check out with the PS4 listing; I can confirm that the Vita version is free for me now) and has separate trophy lists for each version.

 
nitrosmob said:
With all this Senran Kagura news I may be thinking of Beach Splash....need people to play it with though cause multiplayer by myself is boringggggggg.
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I'll probably be getting it myself, since I realized that there's only the $70 limited edition, no standard edition, so I'm thinking its gonna be a 1st print run that will sell out like the Onechanbara, Valkyria Chronicles, and Yakuza 0, and I already missed one of those. No point getting it used on AWD either since it comes with LE DLC.

There's quite a few other people on the PSN community that said they are getting it though, a good 5 or so people.

 
moja said:
SK Burst is a nice surprise; I've been looking for some time to get the physical 3DS version. Thanks for the news!
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ur better off waiting for the remake, but if ur not going to wait, i saw at one of the local gamestops the physical version new(not packaged) on one of the clearance tables, i believe it was under 20$

 
bigstew said:
ur better off waiting for the remake, but if ur not going to wait, i saw at one of the local gamestops the physical version new(not packaged) on one of the clearance tables, i believe it was under 20$
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Burst didn't have a physical release here, but it did in Europe. I'm guessing that was probably Senran Kagura 2

 
Supplice said:
Moero Chronicle Comes To Steam On August 16, 2017
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excited for the senran news. will be my first time playing burst also, I hope sk 2 follows.

double glad the anime is getting a second season. I hope we get those anime show specific avatars that jp psn got thou.
 
For the people who still, even passively, play Overwatch. Summer Games event is going live next Tuesday on the 8th.

Twitter Link

https://twitter.com/PlayOverwatch/status/892535498274611200

[customspoiler='Developer Update on the upcoming event']
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPs__eUvtvU[/customspoiler]

  • Lucioball is coming back, but improved. New arena map based on Sydney, Australia.
  • Competitive Lucioball playlist with special spray and an additional top 500 spray
  • Summer Game 2016 Skins will be available at normal skin prices.
  • New Summer Game 2017 Skins will be available at normal event skin prices.
  • Mercy is getting one of Jeff's favorite skins.
  • Roadhog gets... nothing. (It's a joke from the video based on Roadhogs current state)
  • Junkrat, our favorite Australian, is getting an 'awesome' skin.

This is also the first event since the Loot Box changes that reduces the chance of duplicates. Should help eliminate the 6 skin dupes you get for your most hated character.

 
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Draekon said:
For the people who still, even passively, play Overwatch. Summer Games event is going live next Tuesday on the 8th.

Twitter Link

https://twitter.com/PlayOverwatch/status/892535498274611200

[customspoiler='Developer Update on the upcoming event']
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPs__eUvtvU[/customspoiler]

  • Lucioball is coming back, but improved. New arena map based on Sydney, Australia.
  • Competitive Lucioball playlist with special spray and an additional top 500 spray
  • Summer Game 2016 Skins will be available at normal skin prices.
  • New Summer Game 2017 Skins will be available at normal event skin prices.
  • Mercy is getting one of Jeff's favorite skins.
  • Roadhog gets... nothing. (It's a joke from the video based on Roadhogs current state)
  • Junkrat, our favorite austrlian, is getting an 'awesome' skin.

This is also the first event since the Loot Box changes that reduces the chance of duplicates. Should help eliminate the 6 skin dupes you get for your most hated character.
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Eh, wasn't a big fan of Lucio Ball. It was kinda boring, and the XP gain wasn't great either.

Hope the Mercy skin is a bikini costume, and hopefully they won't include the 2016 summer event items in the event loot boxes, since that'll make it even harder to get the new ones.

If the skins are nice, I'll probably play a bit, but the only thing making we want to play is to try out Doomfist, and the new loot boxes. Other than that, Overwatch has gotten really stale lately.

 
Supplice said:
.hack//G.U. Last Recode for PS4 and PC Gets a New Episode and Japanese Release Date

Fire Emblem Warriors Adds Cordelia And Female Robin, Has A Permadeath Feature
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Oh I forgot .hack might get released in japan first and we'll have to wait for a proper localization. It's really looking amazing so far though.

I married Cordelia but man do I not have any interest in Fire Emblem Warriors. It's really just gonna be all Awakening and Fates. I did enjoy Awakening but what a way to spit on your long time fans.

I just saw this indie game on steam. I don't think Draekon mentioned it in the weekly releases or maybe I just missed it.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/665090/The_Initial/

It at least looks better than Mitsurugi Kamui Hikae.

 
motaku96 said:
Oh I forgot .hack might get released in japan first and we'll have to wait for a proper localization. It's really looking amazing so far though.

I married Cordelia but man do I not have any interest in Fire Emblem Warriors. It's really just gonna be all Awakening and Fates. I did enjoy Awakening but what a way to spit on your long time fans.

I just saw this indie game on steam. I don't think Draekon mentioned it in the weekly releases or maybe I just missed it.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/665090/The_Initial/

It at least looks better than Mitsurugi Kamui Hikae.
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What I'm curious about is are they going to dub all this new content in vol 4, and who they are going to get to voice it. Since odds are low they will get the original cast to return to reprise their roles considering they wern't willing to do it for symphonia and that game sold more copies than the entire .hack series combined in na alone.

 
nitrosmob said:
With all this Senran Kagura news I may be thinking of Beach Splash....need people to play it with though cause multiplayer by myself is boringggggggg.
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I won $40 in Amazon GCs at work last week, and used them towards my PBS preorder. And no, I didn't tell my coworkers what I spent the GCs on. Lol
 
Draekon said:
For the people who still, even passively, play Overwatch. Summer Games event is going live next Tuesday on the 8th.

Twitter Link

https://twitter.com/PlayOverwatch/status/892535498274611200

[customspoiler='Developer Update on the upcoming event']
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPs__eUvtvU[/customspoiler]

  • Lucioball is coming back, but improved. New arena map based on Sydney, Australia.
  • Competitive Lucioball playlist with special spray and an additional top 500 spray
  • Summer Game 2016 Skins will be available at normal skin prices.
  • New Summer Game 2017 Skins will be available at normal event skin prices.
  • Mercy is getting one of Jeff's favorite skins.
  • Roadhog gets... nothing. (It's a joke from the video based on Roadhogs current state)
  • Junkrat, our favorite austrlian, is getting an 'awesome' skin.

This is also the first event since the Loot Box changes that reduces the chance of duplicates. Should help eliminate the 6 skin dupes you get for your most hated character.
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I can't wait for the Olympics version!

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

 
 
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Now that Cold Steel III is coming out on PS4 you'd have to think they'd eventually do a re-release for Cold Steel 1+2 PS4 compilation ya?

 
Doubtful currently, however with the PC ports coming up they really should port that version to the PS4 if they are going to port one. If they port the PS3 versions, I couldn't see them having half of the improvements that the PC version has.

My main concern is that we won't have Zero & Azure translated before Cold Steel III. Since we'll be visiting there and having returning characters from those two games in Cold Steel III. So much is going to get lost on people, just like the Divertissement. All these returning characters from the Sky Trilogy & Zero/Azure Duology aren't going to get any serious character development because they're already well established.

Still pissed they locked the Black Records in Cold Steel II behind NG+. That shit has series wide implications, which makes it even worse.

 
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motaku96 said:
I married Cordelia but man do I not have any interest in Fire Emblem Warriors. It's really just gonna be all Awakening and Fates. I did enjoy Awakening but what a way to spit on your long time fans.
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Let's be fair here: probably 90% of the current interest in Fire Emblem is directly attributable to Awakening and Fats. It's hard to blame them for making a spin-off like this and focusing mostly on where the money is.

motaku96 said:
I just saw this indie game on steam. I don't think Draekon mentioned it in the weekly releases or maybe I just missed it.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/665090/The_Initial/
It at least looks better than Mitsurugi Kamui Hikae.
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Has anyone been able to confirm yet whether the devs actually stole Marie Rose's head mesh for the main character?
 
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Looks like Tales of Berseria PS4 is on sale for $30 at Gamestop, Amazon, and Bestbuy. Wonder if it's another price drop?

 
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motaku96 said:
I just saw this indie game on steam. I don't think Draekon mentioned it in the weekly releases or maybe I just missed it.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/665090/The_Initial/
It at least looks better than Mitsurugi Kamui Hikae.
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Yep, I missed listing it. Sometimes I wonder how many I miss listing from Steam. So annoying to find games there, especially since the tag system is pretty bad.

Katsumi said:
Looks like Tales of Berseria PS4 is on sale for $30 at Gamestop, Amazon, and Bestbuy. Wonder if it's another price drop?
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Doubtful. They're on sale at Steam too for that price.

 
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My friend was the smart one. He's a huge Japanese turn-based RPG fan, and he's been holding off on getting any of the new consoles. He decided instead to stick to his trusty PC. Now, a lot of the best JRPGs are finally showing up on the PC, and he doesn't have to miss out. The PS4 and Vita still have a slight edge when it comes to that style of content, but they are losing ground constantly.

 
LoH: Trails of Cold Steel PC Guest Blog #3 from Peter “Durante” Thoman - Special Features

Previous Blog Article #2

Previous Blog Article #1

He adds in Turbo Mode which is an awesome addition and it's more than just a simple 'fast forward' button that you'd get using Speedhack in CheatEngine. The game also supports ultrawide resolutions. The other thing I want to mention from this port is that besides adding new voicework to unvoiced lines, they also re-did some voice lines and even in some areas made slight modifications to dialogue. You can see the examples of the prologue here by comparing them (PS3/Vita Version & PC Version - Sara's dialogue regarding the minor dialogue change). They're timestamped YouTube links, so it should take you to the proper point.

Also, wow, does XSeed really suck at marketing. They basically barely talk about most of their releases and just announce them two weeks prior to release outside of the occasional 'We're working on this!' announcement. Not to mention for Cold Steel on the PC they used this on their twitter page which is a horrible representation of the game itself in this case. Xanadu NEXT and Brandish was even worse by basically having non-existent marketing. Sometimes I have to wonder how XSeed turns profit.

 
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Supplice said:
Persona 5 Dancing Star Night and Persona 3 Dancing Moon Night Announced for PS4 and PS Vita

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNl9P8FmEp0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0INh3MYkeiI
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I really hope the Female Protagonist from P3 makes it in, she was my favorite character besides Aigis. And I'd love to see her get styled out like the two other protagonists did, I think she'd look great. Also, hope Mitsuru gets an idol costume like Rise did in P4DAN.

This is great news especially given that P3 has one of the best soundtracks of all time. My favorite 3 are, Tranquility, Time, and Soul Phase.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V216jD1Ex0M

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjNYJGHB2Ss

 
As a Senran Kagura fan I now need to get a Switch. Amazing news this week with all the announcements.
 
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Dynasty Warriors 9 for PS4: Six Returning Characters Officially Revealed

Dynasty Warriors Kicks Off First Official Character Popularity Poll For The West

Capcom Looks Forward to the Growth of Nintendo Switch; Explains How they Select Platforms

Sega Nearly Doubles Game Shipments Thanks to Persona 5; “Rising Expectations” for Consoles

Mana Developer’s Egglia: Legend of the Redcap Available Now in the West; New Gameplay Trailer

Little Witch Academia for PS4 and PC Gets Tons of 1080p Screenshots Showing Characters and Battle

Fire Emblem Warriors Gets Charming Nintendo Switch Screenshots: Cordelia, Female Robin and More

Genkai Tokki: Castle Panzers details Legatt and Lalalei, World Map and Underwear Appraisal

Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker Reveals Boruto And A Glimpse Of Character Creation

Yomawari: Midnight Shadows system overview trailer

 
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