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Retr0gamer · 18-03-2014 3:00pm

I'm even tempted to get the Hyperdimension Neptune games when I saw one on sale on playasia today. Then I got sense.

I must start the Atelier series, hearing so much about how good the PS3 games are and my friend is raving about Meruru and onwards (he says Rorona is only ok). Same friend recommended Persona to me

Seems I have an Atlus, NISA, XSEED and Aksys pile of shame. Pick them up in case they become hard to find.

Xenji · 18-03-2014 3:14pm

I have Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 1 for the Vita and it is actually a good little game although a bit hard to translate, I never played the original, but I am ashamed to say I watched the Hyperdimension Neptunia anime.

Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Dusk is a good game as well, but it is more of a game to relax with, the fighting kinda takes a backseat to collecting and the cast are quite charming, but it is also strangely addictive. I have the The Apprentice of Arland as well but it is still in its plastic, not sure why I did not play it before Dusk though.

Retr0gamer · 18-03-2014 3:17pm

My friend says the exact same thing about Atelier

Retr0gamer · 18-03-2014 7:21pm

Shin Megami Tensei is on sale now on iTunes for $5.99 until April 1st.

Not sure if that applies to Europe of if it's even available here yet.

megaten · 18-03-2014 9:28pm

Hundred knights looks interesting but I've heard it got poor enough review in japan though they've been updating it since. I might just hold out later down the line and hope they port it to vita or something.

Retr0gamer · 18-03-2014 9:31pm

Rogue-likes have always been a niche, it might fair better over here since they've become popular. Sorcery Saga got surprisingly great reviews here.

Still it's not the first time NISA have put out a stinker... and I've both it anyway.

penev10 · 19-03-2014 12:07am

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Sorcery Saga got surprisingly great reviews here.

I'm not touching a Compile Heart game again after 30 uber dull hours wasted on Agarest. Real amateur feel to everything in that game, any semi-decent idea smothered by the repetition. Nothing ever developed, same thing hour after hour... [/rant]

megaten · 19-03-2014 12:18am

I've played through the first dungeon in sorcery saga. Its very low stress, my health never dropped below half. You could barely call it a rouguelike at this stage.

Retr0gamer · 19-03-2014 10:03am

Well got to say I'm very surprised with just how well SMT works on iOS. Touch controls just work far better on a first person dungeon crawler than a top down game. Way better than those Kemco ****ty RPGs and the controls don't kill it like the FF games.

Sephiroth_dude · 19-03-2014 1:37pm

megaten wrote: »

Hundred knights looks interesting but I've heard it got poor enough review in japan though they've been updating it since. I might just hold out later down the line and hope they port it to vita or something.

Ya I cancelled my pre order.

Lahinchians · 25-03-2014 12:20pm

bit the bullet and bought Ni No Kuni. 21Gb download all together so wont be playing it for a few days yet. looks a good one though.

Retr0gamer · 25-03-2014 12:26pm

Lahinchians wrote: »

bit the bullet and bought Ni No Kuni. 21Gb download all together so wont be playing it for a few days yet. looks a good one though.

It's not great. Looks and sounds gorgeous but the story is woeful and the battle system will grind you down until you couldn't be arsed finishing it. That's what happened to me anyway.

Lahinchians · 25-03-2014 2:48pm

Sure i'll pop back in and give ye my opinion when I finally manage to play it haha

Sephiroth_dude · 25-03-2014 5:41pm

Anyone here play ragnarok odyssey? ragnarok odyssey ace is out next week for vita and ps3.

Retr0gamer · 25-03-2014 6:11pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Anyone here play ragnarok odyssey? ragnarok odyssey ace is out next week for vita and ps3.

Seems like a monster hunter/PSO clone. Meant to be a good one though.

Sephiroth_dude · 25-03-2014 6:47pm

Hmmm I see conception is out soon too and demon gaze :-D

Xenji · 25-03-2014 7:23pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Hmmm I see conception is out soon too and demon gaze :-D

So many games, so little time, but have them pre ordered regardless

penev10 · 25-03-2014 7:52pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Anyone here play ragnarok odyssey?

There's a good size demo on the store, it seemed very dull to me though. A streamlined Monster Hunter with less interesting enemies.

Xenji · 26-03-2014 6:15pm

Has anyone played the demo for Conception II yet, it came out yesterday for the Vita and 3DS, you need a US PSN account to download it.

Retr0gamer · 02-04-2014 10:05am

7th dragon got a fan translation.

Lahinchians · 02-04-2014 1:11pm

Lahinchians wrote: »

bit the bullet and bought Ni No Kuni. 21Gb download all together so wont be playing it for a few days yet. looks a good one though.

Have to say, I'm finding it all very charming at the moment.only about 6 hours in though. the art style is amazing, but I expected nothing else. I can see what you mean by the battle system wearing you down retro, I think that they should have gone either turn based or action based, ala star ocean, and not where they are, in between. I don't have much time to play anymore so I sont think I'll have too much of a problem with it.

Retr0gamer · 02-04-2014 1:59pm

Well the main problem with the battle system is it takes so bloody long. Burn out set in for me a few hours in when you realise the game doesn't have much else to offer outside the opening few hours so it might set in yet.

Xenji · 02-04-2014 2:13pm

A few days old, but it looks after the success of Bravely Default, Square Enix will be shifting its focus back to JRPG's.

The worldwide commercial success of Square Enix's Nintendo 3DS JRPG Bravely Default has since made Matsuda reconsider the company's approach. "Bravely Default [...] ended up selling well all around the world," he notes. "For the new games we'll be developing from this point on, while this may sound a bit extreme, we've been talking about making them as heavy JRPGs. I believe that way, we can better focus on our target, which will also bring better results."

http://www.joystiq.com/2014/04/01/square-enix-to-focus-on-jrpgs-niche-appeal-following-bravely-de/

I really enjoyed Bravely Default, well besides the 3 chapters that are basically identical, it was a throwback to the likes of FFIV and FFV, Job Systems should be in far more games and the story was above average as well.

Retr0gamer · 09-04-2014 10:16am

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Want to give Squares producers some advice on their localisations? Apparently they'll be readinf the comments here, whether it's true or not is a different story:

http://www.usgamer.net/articles/final-fantasys-producer-asks-what-makes-or-breaks-a-localization

Well looks like Square's producers were listening to the comments on this and responded:

http://www.usgamer.net/articles/the-final-fantasy-team-responds-to-your-thoughts-on-localization

megaten · 14-04-2014 4:35pm

http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2014/04/14/soul-sacrifice-delta-freedom-wars-oreshika-coming-soon-ps-vita/

Oreshika sounds really good. I didn't think it'd make it over at all.

Retr0gamer · 14-04-2014 5:50pm

Good to see over my dead body series finally get a release, I've heard nothing but great things about the ps1 original and the PSP remake. Pity it's not the remake, the art in that looks amazing.

Sephiroth_dude · 15-04-2014 12:26pm

Conception 2 shipped last Friday from vgp for me .

Xenji · 15-04-2014 12:52pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Conception 2 shipped last Friday from vgp for me .

Same here, that metal box had better be worth the extra price :pac:

As regards Over My Dead Body 2, a demo will be out on April 24th.

While the villain is different, the premise is the same as the PsOne cult hit. If you haven’t tried Over My Dead Body 2 before you can grab a demo from the PlayStation Store at the end of April. Designer Shoji Masuda tweeted that the demo covers one year of game time, which is roughly three hours. Players can choose three out of eight jobs at the beginning so if you want to try out all of the characters in dungeons you can play through the demo three times.

http://www.siliconera.com/2014/03/26/dead-body-2-demo-will-give-vita-owners-taste-cursed-bloodline-next-month/

megaten · 15-04-2014 2:12pm

That's sounds like a really generous demo. It must be coming pretty soon if they have a demo this month.

Sephiroth_dude · 19-04-2014 12:17pm

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2014/04/18/bandai-namco-bringing-tales-of-hearts-r-to-the-west.aspx

Retr0gamer · 19-04-2014 12:45pm

Namco have gone from the worst publisher for bringing their games to the west to one of the best.

Xenji · 19-04-2014 12:57pm

Looking forward to Tales of Hearts, it is meant to have one of the strongest stories of the Tales series as well, I remember when it came out on the DS people saying it took between 50-70 hours to complete. We will be spoiled this year with Tales of Xillia 2 meant to be coming out over here as well.

Sephiroth_dude · 19-04-2014 1:03pm

Completely forgot about tox 2,demon gaze is out next week too.

_Godot_ · 20-04-2014 6:28am

I've been playing a lot of Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey (over 34 hours so far). I'm really liking it.

Retr0gamer · 20-04-2014 10:25am

_Godot_ wrote: »

I've been playing a lot of Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey (over 34 hours so far). I'm really liking it.

I loved it myself. Just make sure you learn to abuse the **** out of status buffs and debuffs. There's some really nasty bosses towards the end. Everyone gets stuck on ouroboros. You really have to abuse the system to get past both fights with him.

Been playing Atelier Rorona myself and I'm finding it very relaxing. No world to save just your workshop. Rorona is great as well, bit of a dopey misfortune with a heart of gold.

Sephiroth_dude · 22-04-2014 4:59pm

http://www.gameinformer.com/games/tales_of_xillia_2/b/ps3/archive/2014/04/22/tales-of-xillia-2-arrives-on-playstation-3-in-august.aspx

http://www.gameinformer.com/games/tales_of_hearts_r/b/playstation_vita/archive/2014/04/22/a-tale-of-two-siblings.aspx

Xenji · 22-04-2014 5:30pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

http://www.gameinformer.com/games/tales_of_xillia_2/b/ps3/archive/2014/04/22/tales-of-xillia-2-arrives-on-playstation-3-in-august.aspx

http://www.gameinformer.com/games/tales_of_hearts_r/b/playstation_vita/archive/2014/04/22/a-tale-of-two-siblings.aspx

Gonna have to order the collectors edition, I am such a sucker for figurines.

Sephiroth_dude · 22-04-2014 9:13pm

No collectors up on vgp yet,normal edition Is though,also pre ordered mind zero from vgp and I'm still waiting for conception to come from them and have demon gaze coming from amazon next week along with child of light and fairy fencer f lol .

Xenji · 22-04-2014 9:21pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

No collectors up on vgp yet,normal edition Is though,also pre ordered mind zero from vgp and I'm still waiting for conception to come from them and have demon gaze coming from amazon next week along with child of light and fairy fencer f lol .

Still waiting as well, should be here Thursday/Friday, still on the fence about Mind Zero but have Demon Gaze ordered, not sure about Fairy Fancier it would probably end up in the pile of unopened games . I find the collectors editions are the cheapest on Amazon.de and they tend to turn up more often as well.

Sephiroth_dude · 22-04-2014 9:24pm

Ahhhh I'll keep an eye on there so for collectors edition.

Retr0gamer · 23-04-2014 12:31am

Well I'm thoroughly enjoying Atelier Rorona. You can tell it hasn't much budget but there's just so much care and love that has gone into this game, it really shows. It's just such a relaxing game to play and he characters are all great and relatable. It's very down to earth with no melodrama, it's quite refreshing in a way. It's not perfect, I keep seeing ways that the game can be streamlined but my friend tells me they improve greatly on it in the sequels. It's also one of those games with a very brisk combat system with no loading times, even the synthesis is relatively painless.

Sephiroth_dude · 25-04-2014 11:01am

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Xenji · 25-04-2014 12:20pm

Mine arrived as well, now just waiting for work to finish.

Sephiroth_dude · 25-04-2014 12:51pm

Vgp will definitely get my business again

ghostchant · 25-04-2014 1:55pm

How long did it take from dispatch to arrival? Haven't ordered off them in a while

Sephiroth_dude · 25-04-2014 2:16pm

2 weeks exactly.

Sephiroth_dude · 25-04-2014 11:23pm

Conception is a very interesting game so far....

Xenji · 26-04-2014 1:22am

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Conception is a very interesting game so far....

It is like a dating sim with very boring battles so far, it is quite quirky and has its charm but was hoping to a bit better, still enjoying it though.

Sephiroth_dude · 26-04-2014 1:43am

Xenji wrote: »

It is like a dating sim with very boring battles so far, it is quite quirky and has its charm but was hoping to a bit better, still enjoying it though.

Aye,you dont wanna piss off any of the gals :-D

megaten · 26-04-2014 11:51am

http://www.dualshockers.com/2014/04/26/sony-registers-dark-chronicles-trademark-after-years-of-limbo/
I really hope this means something

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