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 am going to start using VGP as well. I actually used Play-Asia enough before to get some higher status (not sure what it really is). I would generally wait till enough games are coming/out and make a free shipping order. Now without the free shipping, I am incentivized to just not use them unless that's the only choice (they still do get some Play-Asia Asian-English only games, but they do appear on other sites now). I really do want Saga Frontier 2 Remastered, so I will experiment with VGP. I do hope it all goes well and I also do hope Play-Asia patches up some stuff and provides a better experience for the consumer. Honestly I think many people are going to really learn which places really care enough to make the shopping experience well in the near future.
 
nitrosmob said:
I am going to start using VGP as well. I actually used Play-Asia enough before to get some higher status (not sure what it really is). I would generally wait till enough games are coming/out and make a free shipping order. Now without the free shipping, I am incentivized to just not use them unless that's the only choice (they still do get some Play-Asia Asian-English only games, but they do appear on other sites now). I really do want Saga Frontier 2 Remastered, so I will experiment with VGP. I do hope it all goes well and I also do hope Play-Asia patches up some stuff and provides a better experience for the consumer. Honestly I think many people are going to really learn which places really care enough to make the shopping experience well in the near future.
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Aside, I found 60% of the Ranma 1/2 manga (OG release) for $1 a book at a used book store.

23 total from the series.

Was quite happy.
 
Most of my GS purchases from the last week. Roughly ~50% of the new games arrived gutted, which is a lower rate than expected. And since half of my purchases were preowned, it's acceptable that i'm stuck with only 1 game (smtv:v) in a generic case. It will get tossed since I have an extra steelbook that I'll use. All of these games aside from Trails and the xbox/atlus games are new to me, so it's nice to have more to play and less gs trade credit.

Good sale.
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There was a ~3hr window between the time I posted here about shipping availability and the time Wario hit the dog whistle. Hopefully people got what they wanted. As you can see I bought an extra Potionomics since I was indecisive on platform. I'm up for helping out a cag if you're still looking.
 
gospelman said:
Most of my GS purchases from the last week. Roughly ~50% of the new games arrived gutted, which is a lower rate than expected. And since half of my purchases were preowned, it's acceptable that i'm stuck with only 1 game (smtv:v) in a generic case. It will get tossed since I have an extra steelbook that I'll use. All of these games aside from Trails and the xbox/atlus games are new to me, so it's nice to have more to play and less gs trade credit.

Good sale.
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Wow they had Sword & Fairy in stock for shipping at one point crazy pickups
 
lakers714 said:
Wow they had Sword & Fairy in stock for shipping at one point crazy pickups
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S&F, Granblue Relink Deluxe, and Anonymous;Code I had to drive to hunt down locally. Easiest way is to find the sku in the item page's url and ask an employee to print a receipt of local availability for the sku you give them.

There's one more CE I sniffed out but failed to obtain. The only one in my area. The employee tried to give me the standard edition and then "couldn't find it" when I asked them to check the drawers & back room. The sku is on the sticker (355870) if anyone else wants to hunt locally.
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S&F, Granblue Relink Deluxe, and Anonymous;Code I had to drive to hunt down locally. Easiest way is to find the sku in the item page's url and ask an employee to print a receipt of local availability for the sku you give them.

There's one more CE I sniffed out but failed to obtain. The only one in my area. The employee tried to give me the standard edition and then "couldn't find it" when I asked them to check the drawers & back room. The sku is on the sticker (355870) if anyone else wants to hunt locally.
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WOW. GS got so tired of people complaining about their gutted new games that they're now starting their own "Certified New" line. When the standard, nice and sealed in original plastic shrinkwrap from the factory that you can get from every reputable retailer isn't enough, and you want a copy that's been man handled and absorbed the farts of various GS employees, then you buy Certified New.

Only at GameStop.
 
I only use the economy free shipping at playasia. That does make sense, there are probably tons of packages being shipped now. Here is some of my tracking from a Feb order, 3 days to get to CA (I live in PA):
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gospelman said:
S&F, Granblue Relink Deluxe, and Anonymous;Code I had to drive to hunt down locally. Easiest way is to find the sku in the item page's url and ask an employee to print a receipt of local availability for the sku you give them.

There's one more CE I sniffed out but failed to obtain. The only one in my area. The employee tried to give me the standard edition and then "couldn't find it" when I asked them to check the drawers & back room. The sku is on the sticker (355870) if anyone else wants to hunt locally.
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Wow that would be a sick find I had the same thing with the S&F CE at a store they tried looking for it in the store or back room but could not find it same with the AC Mirage one too
 
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