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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.

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DR2 is better than DR1 in every measure except it damn near drove the plot of DR1 off a cliff and had a laughable finale.

That said, to follow off what DR1 promised but wisely kept hidden, you would need some of the finest writers in the world. So they were doomed from the second they decided DR was too good money to not do a needless sequel.
 
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elessar123 said:
#2 wasn't really better. None of the characters stood out like the first one.
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Komaeda is easily my favorite character in the series, and probably one of my favorite in any game so I gotta disagree

He's just so hopelessly
crazy
and I like how they set him up to parallel
Naegi
. It really does depend what you mean by stood out though, I think the DR2 cast is a bit more eccentric and extreme like Gundham for example, whereas DR1 might have had more rational characters like Byakuya and Kirigiri. I don't know, who did you think stood out in the first game?

Case 5 of DR2 is also probably my favorite in the series because of how insane it was, and I liked the less claustrophic island compared to Hope's Peak (although being trapped in a school was certainly a great and effective setting to be stuck with other students), so I prefer the sequel over the original.

I stopped watching DR3 anime a while back, kinda wanna go finish it before v3 comes out

 
TooPoor said:
With your avatar, yet you didn't play all things Dangaronpa, I am dissapointed in you.
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You probably should be. I disappoint myself practically daily. UDG is about the *only* thing Danganronpa I havent consumed. I've read the 'prequel' light novel, watched the animes, played the VNs. Bought UDG, just never started it. *shrugs*

As for DR1 v DR2, I think it's fair to say that I preferred DR1 for both story and gameplay. That said, I did enjoy some of the characters of DR2 as well, mostly Peko and Nekomaru. After watching the Despair Arc of DR3, I even appreciate Teruteru (who I found annoying in the game). I think they made some poor gameplay choices as well. I forget exactly what it was, but one of the mini-games I remember hating. Also, the side-story game was something I had *zero* interest in so I never got the platinum.

But yes, I should be metaphorically flogged for not playing Ultra Despair Girls. It's not something a Super High School Level Progeny would leave undone.

 
I liked the majority of characters in Danganronpa 2 a lot more than those in the first game.

Even though Junko and Toko are best.

DR3 anime was lame. Well the future arc was anyway. 

 
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Still need to play DR2 as well =/ I think I'm just going to wait till the ps4 version is cheap and play it after getting it there instead of w/ the pstv

 
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BlackRockWaifu said:
Didn't the Male MC get it down with Elizabeth too? And did Akihiko get a hidden camera scene too? It's been a while so I forgot. Also, how did they even do the hidden camera scenes in P3P? Isn't there no character models in the real world? I thought everything was just a 2D screen you navigated from like a point and click game. I also wished the Persona games had more character customization and choices, I would've made my FeMC a super slut.
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story scenes have character models and 2d anime portraits for the dialogue. these video segments are anime portraits from what I remember.

 
hostyl1 said:
You probably should be. I disappoint myself practically daily. UDG is about the *only* thing Danganronpa I havent consumed. I've read the 'prequel' light novel, watched the animes, played the VNs. Bought UDG, just never started it. *shrugs*

As for DR1 v DR2, I think it's fair to say that I preferred DR1 for both story and gameplay. That said, I did enjoy some of the characters of DR2 as well, mostly Peko and Nekomaru. After watching the Despair Arc of DR3, I even appreciate Teruteru (who I found annoying in the game). I think they made some poor gameplay choices as well. I forget exactly what it was, but one of the mini-games I remember hating. Also, the side-story game was something I had *zero* interest in so I never got the platinum.

But yes, I should be metaphorically flogged for not playing Ultra Despair Girls. It's not something a Super High School Level Progeny would leave undone.
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I came into UDG thinking the game would be super janky and it really wasn't. I actually found the gameplay pretty fun with trying out different ammo types for your megaphone-gun-thing. Some character backstories were ridiculously dark but hey, it is Danganronpa after all

 
I'm pretty sure Ultra Despair Girls is my favorite of the three...somehow.

Komaru is a much better character than Makoto and Toko is cool,

 
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62t said:
How important is Ultra Despair Girls? And should I play it on PS4 or Vita?
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It adds some back story between 1 and 2. It's not nearly as good as the other games but it's worth playing imo. The PS4 is supposed to have "improved controls" but I only played on Vita so I can't say how much better it is...It's also on Steam if you prefer PC.

 
Sonic Mania opening animation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA9zwpMj_8A

Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony ‘Ultimate Roll Call #2’ trailer

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

vic_x51 said:
i liked ibuki & nagito from D2 the most.
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Mikan was my favorite. 10 out of 10 would take an injection from.

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Also

>tfw hearing Ai Kayano speak lewdly thanks to Mikan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHfe-g_8h8U

 
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Japanese PE Edition is a mere $1,365!
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Aside from the standard game, Capcom is preparing the Ace Attorney 1 – 6 Premium Edition pack. Priced at 150,000 yen ($1,365), it contains all six main Ace Attorney games, an Ace Attorney 4 mini soundtrack CD, an original box, a set of 15 postcards, a box for those postcards signed by art director Takuro Fuse, a sheet signed by Ace Attorney designer Shu Takumi and a 7 gram pure gold memorial plate. The bundle is exclusive to E-Capcom.
 
62t said:
How important is Ultra Despair Girls? And should I play it on PS4 or Vita?
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It has good boss fights and there's nothing wrong with the gameplay.

I'm just gonna say it: It adds pretty much jack and shit to the DR plot. A new toootaalllly crrraaaAAAAzzzzyy villain is introduced and that's it. The vision of the outside world is pretty lame considering what was promised and all we end up getting is endlessly drawn out scenes of evil kids being cute and then being evil in a creepy manner. Which was not what we were promised from DR1.

That said, Komaru and Toko girl bonding and friendship is absolutely A++++ tier. It's a game worth playing, but if you're just playing it because you don't want to miss DR plot details, you could skip this game and miss nothing. If you're here for DR writing in general then the game is worth it.

 
oooh mikan, i forgot. ya she was great too.

im not sure which Danganronpa i like more, i mean the first one has an edge because the concept was fresh but the 2nd still had its own worthwhile twists.
 
lakers714 said:
I heard when watch the anime your supposed to be switching between two season on each episode
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This is really for Danganronpa 3 as they have a "Future Arc" and a "Despair Arc". The Future Arc is *the* story of DR3. The Despair arc is more like a prequel (set before the events of DR1). If you watched Future all the way through, I think you'd get the story, but I doubt you'd care much about the characters. The show was originally released as alternating episodes and the stories do lead into each other. Since all the episodes are readily available now, I'd suggest watching them in air (alternating) order.

 
hostyl1 said:
This is really for Danganronpa 3 as they have a "Future Arc" and a "Despair Arc". The Future Arc is *the* story of DR3. The Despair arc is more like a prequel (set before the events of DR1). If you watched Future all the way through, I think you'd get the story, but I doubt you'd care much about the characters. The show was originally released as alternating episodes and the stories do lead into each other. Since all the episodes are readily available now, I'd suggest watching them in air (alternating) order.
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I was just wondering this myself because I just played through 1,2 , and UDG, so now I want to start the anime, thanks!
 
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TooPoor said:
I want to do injection to Mikan.
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That makes me think of this ("Injection Fellas!")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci8hWx4CR-k

I go back an forth on Mikan. She's sweet, sexy as hell, but they almost play her too comically with her "fan service" clumsiness. That scene with her 'in despair' though *phew*. I needed a moment.

 
So will watching the anime spoil the Danganronpa 3 game? I'm currently playing through 2...and pre-ordering 3. Forgot how fun these games are.

 
nitrosmob said:
So will watching the anime spoil the Danganronpa 3 game? I'm currently playing through 2...and pre-ordering 3. Forgot how fun these games are.
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The anime "Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak Academy" is a wholly different story than the game "Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony". Naming convention aside, the two share almost nothing, different time-period, different cast. So no, the anime wont spoil the game.

 
Nate Nanjo said:
So...how does G.U. compare to the original 4?

Note I only made it to 3 of the original.
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Very poorly. They improved the graphics, gameplay, and level design significantly, but the story went from sort of philosophical and genuinely interesting to bargain bin generic animu fluff. Every other character is mysterious for no other reason than to be mysterious, all the rest of the characters are severely mentally deficient, none of the character motivations make any sense and they usually conflict with themselves, the writers had even less idea what an MMORPG is than the first generation of .hack writers, and instead of genuine character motivations driving the plot, the plot just sort of meanders randomly along until it gets to the next place it wanted to be without any particular rhyme or reason. It was kind of painful just getting through the first game.

Oh, and in spite of the improved gameplay and graphics, the environments somehow manage to be even more samey than in the first four games.
 
With all this talk of Danganronpa, reminds me I still need to play the first one before the third one comes out. Already played the second one and loved it.  Hopefully I can find it cheap somewhere, it always seems to hover $25 to $30 mark.

 
Just a heads up since I don't think Supplice posted a news link about it (Search sucks), but the demo for Monster Hunter Stories on the 3DS is out. Progress carries over into the game as well should you actually like it enough to buy it.

 
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SakuraGame released another poorly translated hentai rpgmaker game on steam.

The Heiress - $2.39 during the first week

Also if you buy it during the first week, you'll get a code for Dragon Knight for free. See details here.

Keep in mind the translation is barely better than machine translation but it is understandable and playable.

Also you'll have to patch it for the 18+ scenes but shouldn't be too hard.

I did pick up Dark Elf from last week. It's alright. The combat is turn based ATB jrpg fare.

It's worth noting the japanese version of these games retail $20 on dmm site but they're $10 now so it's still cheaper to get it on steam.

 
Souffrir said:
Very poorly. They improved the graphics, gameplay, and level design significantly, but the story went from sort of philosophical and genuinely interesting to bargain bin generic animu fluff. Every other character is mysterious for no other reason than to be mysterious, all the rest of the characters are severely mentally deficient, none of the character motivations make any sense and they usually conflict with themselves, the writers had even less idea what an MMORPG is than the first generation of .hack writers, and instead of genuine character motivations driving the plot, the plot just sort of meanders randomly along until it gets to the next place it wanted to be without any particular rhyme or reason. It was kind of painful just getting through the first game.

Oh, and in spite of the improved gameplay and graphics, the environments somehow manage to be even more samey than in the first four games.
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that's because there are fewer maps and only rain and fog for weather at least in the first 2 g.u. games. No forest layout, no desert, no ice, no lava ect. gu only had the 1 field lay out type, chinese dungeon and cave dungeons.

 
Souffrir said:
Very poorly. They improved the graphics, gameplay, and level design significantly, but the story went from sort of philosophical and genuinely interesting to bargain bin generic animu fluff. Every other character is mysterious for no other reason than to be mysterious, all the rest of the characters are severely mentally deficient, none of the character motivations make any sense and they usually conflict with themselves, the writers had even less idea what an MMORPG is than the first generation of .hack writers, and instead of genuine character motivations driving the plot, the plot just sort of meanders randomly along until it gets to the next place it wanted to be without any particular rhyme or reason. It was kind of painful just getting through the first game.

Oh, and in spite of the improved gameplay and graphics, the environments somehow manage to be even more samey than in the first four games.
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We all have to buy it though or they'll never do an HD remake of the originals.

 
Nate Nanjo said:
So...how does G.U. compare to the original 4?

Note I only made it to 3 of the original.
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combat is slightly different in that now its a bit more real time and combo oriented due to your weapons all having unique abilities to them, magic was completely nerfed to being useless and you don't have access to anywhere near as large the spell size, buffs or debuffs anymore. Nor can you get them through equipment temp as abilities. They also now lock you barrier field when fighting enemies both in and outside dungeons where as prior you could run and such freely. Ai orders are now gone along with directly selecting moves to use so you can no longer kite bosses or stand back and let them fight while you heal/attack from afar. New annoyance is the aida battles. They were horrible. And you have to fight dozens of them in the second game.

Because your mc haseo uses 5 different weapons (2 in the first game and 1 added in each game after. bsword that turns into a sword whip is new) you not only have significantly fewer weapons in each class but there are large level gaps between them and only 4 attacks on each weapon.

It also uses weapons as weaknesses for some types of monsters. large enemies typically come with an armor you have to break by using your heavy swords and charging them/dealing damage.

Heavy blades have so far only normal ones and one with a chainsaw skill. Sadly the latter is only on your default weapon and I have yet to encounter a second between the first and 2nd games.

Twin blades have 3 types. 1st is chainsaw like the heavy sword. second is spinning blades where you launch them at the enemy then quickly press o to rotate them and extend the combo. 3rd which is the rarest is the ghost step from the needle rippers. You charge your attack and instead of just hitting them and throwing them across the screen or knocking them down you teleport behind an enemy and it deals a bunch of slashes to them. Works on multiple enemies and is an amazing skill. Sadly you only get 1 after becoming the palace champion. Not sure where I got the second one from. I think it randomly dropped in a chest or something.

scythe is similar to the first 2 and has a chainsaw effect. I don't recall if there were any others.

I agree that the story was more poorly executed in g.u. Most of it is in the anime and the last bit of it is in the 3rd game. 2nd game was almost entirely filler

 
motaku96 said:
SakuraGame released another poorly translated hentai rpgmaker game on steam.

The Heiress - $2.39 during the first week

Also if you buy it during the first week, you'll get a code for Dragon Knight for free. See details here.

Keep in mind the translation is barely better than machine translation but it is understandable and playable.

Also you'll have to patch it for the 18+ scenes but shouldn't be too hard.

I did pick up Dark Elf from last week. It's alright. The combat is turn based ATB jrpg fare.

It's worth noting the japanese version of these games retail $20 on dmm site but they're $10 now so it's still cheaper to get it on steam.
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This picture should tell you the quality of the game.

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What's wrong with that girl's body!

 
Nate Nanjo said:
So...how does G.U. compare to the original 4?

Note I only made it to 3 of the original.
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Upgrading your equipment was thankfully improved. Instead of going to a random map and hoping to come across a pond and hoping you get an upgraded weapon spit out by rng you instead just take 2 of the same weapon to your guilds building and combine them and can do this up to 5 times until the weapon maxes out and can then be fused with equipment that's higher level I think. Downside is there are very few pieces of equipment let alone duplicates of the same ones outside say lv45 heavy blades laying around.

 
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Nate Nanjo said:
So...how does G.U. compare to the original 4?

Note I only made it to 3 of the original.
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party members wise unlike the quad you have fewer characters you can use with a large number being temps or having extremely limited availability. You don't even have 1 character from each class to use let alone being able to use a party consisting of say 3 twin blades.

That on top of characters being backloaded for the 3rd game makes things pretty annoying regarding that.

And my apologies for the triple post. Figured I may as well make some use out of it though.

 
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motaku96 said:
SakuraGame released another poorly translated hentai rpgmaker game on steam.

The Heiress - $2.39 during the first week

Also if you buy it during the first week, you'll get a code for Dragon Knight for free. See details here.

Keep in mind the translation is barely better than machine translation but it is understandable and playable.

Also you'll have to patch it for the 18+ scenes but shouldn't be too hard.

I did pick up Dark Elf from last week. It's alright. The combat is turn based ATB jrpg fare.

It's worth noting the japanese version of these games retail $20 on dmm site but they're $10 now so it's still cheaper to get it on steam.
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I thought a tumor was forming watching "The Heiress" trailer...

 
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motaku96 said:
SakuraGame released another poorly translated hentai rpgmaker game on steam.

The Heiress - $2.39 during the first week
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I'm really intrigued. What is a "Hentai rpgmaker?" Is it like an RPG maker but with Hentai elements? Or is it just a normal Hentai RPG? Or is it like The Sims but an RPG and with Hentai in it? I skimmed through the trailer and it just looked like a normal top down RPG to me.

 
nitrosmob said:
This picture should tell you the quality of the game.

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What's wrong with that girl's body!
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Oh, god, OneOne1? The guys who specialize is absolutely massive insertions in literally every hole?

Well, whatever floats your boat, I guess, but I wouldn't want that in my Steam library for everyone to see.
 
BlackRockWaifu said:
I'm really intrigued. What is a "Hentai rpgmaker?" Is it like an RPG maker but with Hentai elements? Or is it just a normal Hentai RPG? Or is it like The Sims but an RPG and with Hentai in it? I skimmed through the trailer and it just looked like a normal top down RPG to me.
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Steam for the most part doesn't allow that kind of imagery on its service/store. So what's on Steam would be the hentai game stripped of all its hentai. Thus you wouldn't see anything in the trailer. Typically if you want to add in the hentai, you'll either need to (A) buy it from another source that has the 18+ version already or (B) patch it in with a supplied (or bought) 18+ patch that gets around Steam's policy.

 
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