Friday, 18 November 2016

Japanese video game English localisation news - 119

Announced / updates on forthcoming:

  • Persona 5 (PS3, PS4) 
  • A Magical High School Girl (PC)
  • Love, Guitars, and the Nashville Skyline (PC)
  • Kokurase Episode 2 (PC)
  • Alicemare (PC)
  • Operation Abyss: New Tokyo Legacy (PC)
  • Operation Babel: New Tokyo Legacy (PC, PS Vita)
  • Dynasty Warriors: Godseekers (PS Vita, PS4)
  • Digimon World: Next Order (PS4)
  • Final Fantasy XV (PS4)

Released:

  • SPACE MOUSE 35th Anniversary edition (PC)
  • Brief Karate Foolish (PC)
  • AL･FINE (PC)
  • ENIGMA: (PC)
  • Go! Go! Nippon! 2016 (PC) (DLC)
  • SENRAN KAGURA Bon Appétit! - Full Course (PC)
  • Trillion: God of Destruction (PC)
  • Contra (PS4)
  • Dragon Quest Builders (PS4)
  • Touhou: Scarlet Curiosity (PS4)
  • The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II (PS3. PS Vita)
  • Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization (PS Vita, PS4)
  • BLAZBLUE CENTRALFICTION  (PS3, PS4)
  • Root Letter (PS Vita, PS4)
  • Mario’s Super Picross (New 3DS - SNES Virtual Console)
  • Sega 3D Classics Collection (3DS)
  • Pokemon Sun & Moon (3DS)
  • Wario Land: Shake It! (Wii U - Wii Virtual console)
  • Excitebike 64 - (Wii U - N64 Virtual console)
???? almost released?
  • Shuffle! All-Ages version (PC)
  • Trouble Witches Origin - Episode1 Daughters of Amalgam - (PC)


Persona 5 (PS4) 


It's been delayed until 4th April 2017, but... it will get dual audio! Yippee!


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A Magical High School Girl (PC)


Crafting roguelike! Release date: 22nd November 2016.


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Love, Guitars, and the Nashville Skyline (PC)



Release date: 22nd November 2016.

From Cosmillica - the developer behind ATOM GRRRL!! - a yuri roadtrip VN set in the United States. 

The developer is a huge fan of Americana, so this release features the unusual blend of English text, US-style music with Japanese vocals, and Japanese voice work for dialogue.

I'm really looking forward to this one myself. Way too many yuri VNs are centred around schoolgirls going "but... but... we're both girls!!" and this one promises a more mature story featuring actual adults and the freedom that both grants and restricts.

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Kokurase Episode 2 (PC)


The first DLC chapter for Kokurase, which I cover later in this post.


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Alicemare (PC)


A little horror adventure from △○□× (Miwashiba) - the same developer as LiEat:


Nothing more specific than "COMING SOON"

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Operation Abyss: New Tokyo Legacy (PC)
Operation Babel: New Tokyo Legacy (PC, PS Vita)


Two announcements regarding Experience Inc's New Tokyo Legacy series - the first game is getting ported to Steam (it's already out in English on PS Vita), and the game's sequel - Operation Babel is announced for both PC and PS Vita.

Experience Inc also made Stranger of Sword City, Ray Gigant and Demon Gaze. But you knew that already, didn't you?

Store pages are already up on Steam:

Operation Abyss: New Tokyo Legacy

Operation Babel: New Tokyo Legacy

Nothing more specific than "Early 2017" and "Spring 2017", in regard to release dates.

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Dynasty Warriors: Godseekers (PS Vita, PS4)


Out on January 31st 2017.

Originally "Shin Sangoku Musou Eiketsuden", and originally available in Japan for PS3 as well as Vita and PS4.


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Digimon World: Next Order (PS4)


Out on January 31st 2017 in North America, and DLC pre-order bonuses have been revealed:

All I know for Europe is that it's coming in "early 2017":
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Final Fantasy XV (PS4)


It's nearly out. After around a decade of development. And I'm barely excited at all. I wouldn't even have the slightest interest in it if I hadn't seen some gameplay, and found that it looks truly oddball, and that appeals to me.

Plus it's got a soundtrack by Yoko Shimomura, and she's usually good to listen to. :)

There's an Odeon cinema tie-in promotion coming up:

And Jamie Oliver's restaurant in London is putting on a Final Fantasy XV themed menu:

It's out on 29th November 2016, and I don't have a pre-order. I have this feeling it will be easy to pick up a copy at a very reduced price after a little while.

There are some pre-order bonuses if you are interested, though - follow the links to PSN if you are so inclined.

PSN:

https://store.playstation.com/#!/en-gb/games/final-fantasy-xv-digital-edition/cid=EP0082-CUSA01615_00-FFXVPREORDERBONU

"PRE-ORDER – IMMEDIATE PAYMENT REQUIRED" - no take backs! XD

Upgrade to premium edition:

https://store.playstation.com/#!/en-gb/games/addons/final-fantasy-xv-upgrade-to-digital-premium-edition/cid=EP0082-CUSA01615_00-FFXVSEASONPASSUP

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SPACE MOUSE 35th Anniversary edition (PC)


Very enjoyable little retro game released recently; I wrote a review.


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Brief Karate Foolish (PC)


http://store.steampowered.com/app/546390

Ordinary Japanese men in underpants star in this unusual 2D fighter. Think "Pit-Fighter" quality animation, but as a 2D fighter.

It's completely free - there's not even any DLC or microtransactions to pay for.

Don't forget to check out the manual!

See also http://dcs.ciao.jp/brief/

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AL･FINE (PC)


Ever since I played Recettear all those years ago, I have been searching for another game to continue and extend that idea as a genre; the item-shop / RPG hybrid. This is the latest candidate. It's only getting mixed reviews so far, though.


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ENIGMA: (PC)


A mystery visual novel which has been very well received so far. Medium length. I'd like to read this one myself sometime. 


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Kokurase - Episode 1 (PC)


A game about a gang of school friends who have made it their goal to act as Cupid and get two people together. You switch between characters and choose to use key phrases at key points to progress. Made with RPG Maker, but not actually an RPG, and featuring quirky characters, quirky artwork, and live quirky music. This first episode is free, later episodes will cost money. I've had a quick go - looks good so far! 


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Go! Go! Nippon! 2016 (PC) (DLC)


Released as DLC for the original Go Go Nippon because, well, it seems like everyone owns the base game anyway! According to the description, this adds 50% more content - lots more traditional Japanese sightseeing. 


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SENRAN KAGURA Bon Appétit! - Full Course (PC)


This is a port of the Vita game which includes all DLC - and that DLC roughly doubles the size of the game.

It's a rhythm game spin-off of the Senran Kagura series. It's played for the laughs and the fanservice. 

If you're into Senran Kagura for the strong characters, heart-tugging backstories or tender VN segments featuring mild yuri, this game isn't going to do it for you.


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Trillion: God of Destruction (PC)


This is a port of the Vita game. Incidentally, I just started playing this on the Vita. 

It's a pretty innovative mash-up of roguelike-ish dungeon traversing*, raising sim, and visual novel.

Although it may sound, and to some extent look like a Disgaea game, it's not particularly funny, so watch out for that. You are lovingly raising a series of strong girls to fight - they are all powerful overlords - in order to let them battle a terrible Trillion-HP boss... and they are certain to die, and with their death you may learn something to make the next battle against it easier. It's... argh! T_T

* by "roguelike-ish" I don't mean simply permadeath, I mean - turn-action based, where nothing moves unless you do. But this time with a 3rd person angled view available, and of course - massive boss fight segments.


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Contra (PS4)


Konami has pretty much packed in making new games, but the original Contra is now available on PS4. Do you remember the Konami code? You might need it!


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Dragon Quest Builders (PS4, PS Vita)


Ah, I've been playing this game on PS4.... it's way too addictive. Way too addictive!

Many will describe it as "Dragon Quest Minecraft", and rightly so... but it has two essential differences.

1) It's in 3rd person rather than 1st person so it doesn't make me sick to play it
2) It's got a story!

The story is really good; it forms 4 chapters and they are sufficiently different in gameplay to keep things lively, but the story gets darker and darker as you see just how broken the world is that you need to rebuild.

Vita:

PS4:

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Touhou: Scarlet Curiosity (PS4)


I think it's some kind of roguelike JRPG with bullet hell projectiles. It was already out in the US, it's out in Europe too, now. :)


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The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II (PS3. PS Vita)


Haha, I haven't even finished the first Trails of Cold Steel yet.

PSN Europe links: 


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Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization (PS Vita, PS4)


Latest game spin-off RPG for the hit anime / light novel series.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev_WeieaKtM

Bah, they didn't localise ホロウ・リアリゼーション to "Hollow Realisation" for the non-US English-speaking market. Boo! My spell check doesn't like you!



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BLAZBLUE CENTRALFICTION  (PS3, PS4)


Brace yourselves for the pinnacle of 2D fighting action - this is BlazBlue's final and most hard-hitting chapter to date, with more stages, more moves, more characters than ever before.
PS4 

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Root Letter (PS Vita, PS4)


Visual novel which came out a few weeks ago. I never posted the links to the game on PSN, did I?


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Mario’s Super Picross (New 3DS - SNES Virtual Console)


A game in raw Japanese out now on 3DS eShop, for New 3DS only. 
It's Picross, you don't really need to be able to read Japanese to play it. :)


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Sega 3D Classics Collection (3DS)


This came out on cartridge in America already, it's out on eShop in Europe now.

IMO it's worth it for Power Drift - 3D actually really works well in the game, helps you quickly judge how far away things are.


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Swapdoodle (3DS)


A free app from Nintendo - the successor to Swapnote.


Of course, in modern Nintendo, a free app means "free but if you want to spend loads and loads of money on microtransactions, come right this way!"

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Pokemon Sun & Moon (3DS)


Is out today everywhere in the entire world EXCEPT EUROPE where it's out next Wednesday. Don't tell me anything! No spoilers!! I'm still waiting!!


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Wario Land: Shake It! (Wii U - Wii Virtual console)
Excitebike 64 - (Wii U - N64 Virtual console)


Out on eShop in North America, apparently.


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Shuffle! All-Ages version (PC)


I don't know what happened here. This game was released on Steam, a few people even bought it, one or two even downloaded it..... then it was changed to "Coming soon", and magically disappeared from the hard drives of the people who bought and downloaded it. 

No explanation has been given, and the notice has now changed to "Available: November, 2016".

Who knows what's going on?!


EDIT: The publishers - YumeHaven - have issued a statement:

http://steamcommunity.com/games/537100/announcements/detail/610630642154795050

They're planning a launch discount and invite everyone who purchased the game at full price to get a refund and wait for the release to get their discount.

It's YumeHaven's first release, so this must be quite troubling for them.

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Trouble Witches Origin - Episode1 Daughters of Amalgam - (PC)


2D horizontal-scrolling shoot-em-up.

This is listed on Steam under "new releases" but it's not actually available to buy yet.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/460630/
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