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Sephiroth_dude · 04-07-2016 3:02pm

Its not the ps4 one , theres no plans currently to bring that over to the west.

megaten · 06-07-2016 5:32pm

Deep Silver look to be taking over publishing ATLUS games including SEGA games like 7th Dragon so it looks like nothing should fall through the cracks from the NISA break up.

sniper_samurai · 06-07-2016 5:52pm

Fyi if anyone is looking to pick up Star Ocean 5 it is currently €40 for the standard edition on Amazon.

abelard · 09-07-2016 6:34pm

Interested in playing something new on Vita and the store has some jrpgs featured right now. A few caught my eye that I've never played;

Trails of Cold Steel
Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions
Tales of Hearts R
Disgaea 4
Ys: Memories of Celceta
Valkyria Chronicles 2

Any recommendations from among those?

Retr0gamer · 09-07-2016 6:57pm

If you are interested in FF Tactics then play Tactics Ogre instead. FF Tactics is amazing but the PSP version of Tactics Ogre is even better (made by mostly the same team as well so it's very similar).

Trails is awesome but can be very text heavy so doesn't suit everyone and is slow to get going.

Tales of Hearts R is mediocre
Disgaea can be an acquired test.

Valkyria Chronicles 2 I enjoyed despite the god awful story. Sunk 120 hours into it.

Ys Celceta like all the Ys games is an absolute blast.

Sephiroth_dude · 09-07-2016 6:57pm

abelard wrote: »

Interested in playing something new on Vita and the store has some jrpgs featured right now. A few caught my eye that I've never played;

Trails of Cold Steel
Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions
Tales of Hearts R
Disgaea 4
Ys: Memories of Celceta
Valkyria Chronicles 2

Any recommendations from among those?

Trails of cs
YS MOC

are the two I would pick personally, haven't played the others bar ToHR Which I would avoid.

Retr0gamer · 09-07-2016 7:00pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Trails of cs
YS MOC

are the two I would pick personally, haven't played the others bar ToHR Which I would avoid.

You've not played FFT or Tactics Ogre? :O

Sephiroth_dude · 09-07-2016 7:03pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

You've not played FFT or Tactics Ogre? :O

I haven't

*bows head in shame*

:D

Retr0gamer · 09-07-2016 7:13pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

I haven't

*bows head in shame*

:D

FF Tactics: Officially the secret best Final Fantasy.

I need to go back and restart Tactics ogre and beat it this time... sssshhhhuuuusssshhhh!

Xenji · 09-07-2016 7:20pm

abelard wrote: »

Interested in playing something new on Vita and the store has some jrpgs featured right now. A few caught my eye that I've never played;

Trails of Cold Steel
Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions
Tales of Hearts R
Disgaea 4
Ys: Memories of Celceta
Valkyria Chronicles 2

Any recommendations from among those?

Trails
Disgaea
YS

Sieghardt · 09-07-2016 8:20pm

abelard wrote: »

Interested in playing something new on Vita and the store has some jrpgs featured right now. A few caught my eye that I've never played;

Trails of Cold Steel
Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions
Tales of Hearts R
Disgaea 4
Ys: Memories of Celceta
Valkyria Chronicles 2

Any recommendations from among those?

Get Trails and Ys, specifically avoid Valkyria 2

Retr0gamer · 09-07-2016 8:30pm

Sieghardt wrote: »

Get Trails and Ys, specifically avoid Valkyria 2

Avoid Valkyria 2?

Sure the story is complete and utter scutter but the gameplay is solid. I really enjoyed the missions in the game.

Sieghardt · 09-07-2016 8:57pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Avoid Valkyria 2?

Sure the story is complete and utter scutter but the gameplay is solid. I really enjoyed the missions in the game.

The missions are terrible, tiny repetitive little maps used over and over, no large unique maps, no massive set pieces, almost every boss is a fake valkyrur.

Valkyria 2 is like homeopathic Valkyria, you're arguing it's good based on containing traces of memories of Valkyria :pac:

Retr0gamer · 09-07-2016 9:03pm

Fair enough. I found the gameplay solid and rather enjoyed it myself now. Got me through writing my PhD thesis where I'd play it for 2 hours before bed every night which was the only break I had so I'm very grateful to the game for keeping me sane!

abelard · 10-07-2016 4:32pm

Thanks for the responses, looks like Trails and Ys are the way to go for now!

sniper_samurai · 10-07-2016 4:47pm

abelard wrote: »

Thanks for the responses, looks like Trails and Ys are the way to go for now!

Think both Ys:Memories of Celceta and Cold Steel are down in price until Tuesday as part of the Big in Japan sale.

johnny_ultimate · 10-07-2016 5:05pm

I would recommend Ys: The Oath in Felghana if you are going down that route

Definitely found Celceta one of the weaker entries in the series - Felghana is a much more focused and enjoyable IMO!

Sephiroth_dude · 11-07-2016 1:09am

I got omege quintet in the sale for 10 euro, hope its good.

Sieghardt · 11-07-2016 10:14am

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

I got omege quintet in the sale for 10 euro, hope its good.

I got it for 6 dollars a few weeks ago, it's ok. I'm not really a fan of idol stuff but the battle system borrows heavily from the Trails series and the dungeons have a Breath of Fire/metroidvania style system where every character has a unique ability for getting into new places.

The story has a great sense of humour for the first few chapters but when it tries to become more serious it just becomes dull

megaten · 13-07-2016 12:06pm

7th Dragon 3DS looks great. Hope it doesn't take too long for Deep Silver to publish it over here.

Sephiroth_dude · 17-07-2016 1:08am

Anyone else looking forward to i am setsuna? I think the vita port got canncellled in europe and its only being released on ps4 now?

Xenji · 17-07-2016 2:14am

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Anyone else looking forward to i am setsuna? I think the vita port got canncellled in europe and its only being released on ps4 now?

I am looking forward to it, it offers nothing new nor innovative, but it is grounded in old school traditions and has a nice length to it, everything about it from the graphics, to the battle system and story seem solid, the only issue seems to be with loading times.

Sephiroth_dude · 17-07-2016 12:29pm

Xenji wrote: »

I am looking forward to it, it offers nothing new nor innovative, but it is grounded in old school traditions and has a nice length to it, everything about it from the graphics, to the battle system and story seem solid, the only issue seems to be with loading times.

Ya I like that it has old school mechanics and there won't be a vita release anytime soon in the west its ps4 only which is really disappointing actually.

Xenji · 17-07-2016 12:33pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Ya I like that it has old school mechanics and there won't be a vita release anytime soon in the west its ps4 only which is really disappointing actually.

Given the choice of getting a game that is on both the PS4 or Vita, I would nearly always go with the PS4 version, but after finishing up Grand Kingdom, which by the way was a fantastic game, I may have to rethink it as Grand Kingdom would of been the perfect game to play in bed at the end of the night like any of the Atelier games.

Sephiroth_dude · 17-07-2016 1:00pm

Xenji wrote: »

Given the choice of getting a game that is on both the PS4 or Vita, I would nearly always go with the PS4 version, but after finishing up Grand Kingdom, which by the way was a fantastic game, I may have to rethink it as Grand Kingdom would of been the perfect game to play in bed at the end of the night like any of the Atelier games.

I have GK on the vita and its great

, a little tough though at times .

RedXIV · 18-07-2016 5:18pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Anyone else looking forward to i am setsuna? I think the vita port got canncellled in europe and its only being released on ps4 now?

Noooooooooo! I was planning on picking this up for Vita!!!!

Incidentally is Grand Kingdom as good as it sounds?

megaten · 18-07-2016 5:22pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Anyone else looking forward to i am setsuna? I think the vita port got canncellled in europe and its only being released on ps4 now?

40 quid is a bit steep for something that looks quite mobile-ish. According to the director the Vita version was purely for the domestic market since they couldn't afford not to and the game was designed with a larger screen in mind.

Sephiroth_dude · 18-07-2016 5:36pm

RedXIV wrote: »

Noooooooooo! I was planning on picking this up for Vita!!!!

Incidentally is Grand Kingdom as good as it sounds?

Yes its a really cool game but the only thing I find annoying is if you get killed during a boss fight you have to do the entire mission again which is very annoying as you can't save while on the map.

megaten wrote: »

40 quid is a bit steep for something that looks quite mobile-ish. According to the director the Vita version was purely for the domestic market since they couldn't afford not to and the game was designed with a larger screen in mind.

Ya I was thinking i'll wait till it comes down in price.

Sieghardt · 19-07-2016 9:23pm

Looks like Grandia 3 is coming to PS4 as a PS2 classic
Hopefully Grandia 2 anniversary edition and Xtreme also follow

looking forward to replaying this one

Sephiroth_dude · 19-07-2016 9:32pm

Sieghardt wrote: »

Looks like Grandia 3 is coming to PS4 as a PS2 classic
Hopefully Grandia 2 anniversary edition and Xtreme also follow

looking forward to replaying this one

U.S psn only I persume? :rolleyes:

Would love if Grandia 2 came.

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