Random JRPG News Thread

[Vorark]

Hey, Experience Inc.'s horror adventure Death Mark is coming to PC too:

Blessed Experience Inc. The game is quite good, btw.

 

[Terra]

Seeing Growlanser on that list reminded me I'm still pissed Atlus didn't bring out the PSP remaster of G1 alongside G4. Criminally underappreciated series of games. Nice to see "PC port" options for so many of the questions too.

 

[Reinhardt]

That first question though...

No "mudcrab" option?

 

[Hirato]

Not a very good survey tbh.
Doesn't really tell Atlus anything beyond "There's lots of people who love our games, and a bunch of them want a PC/switch/xbone port!".

There's no room with which to provide any actual feedback about what they're doing well, doing poorly, or if you actually even liked the games in question, as opposed to the series as a whole.

 

[LESS T_T]

Desu taimu desu.

A doujin RPG published by DLSite. Sound like a free-from RPG with world exploration:

Yet another KEMCO game. Is the sequel Cloudic Stories coming too?:

Something pseudo JRPG made by gaijins:

 

[LESS T_T]

Now you can play with 3D-fied Terra on PC too:

 

[Viata]

• In DISSIDIA FINAL FANTASY NT Free Edition, you can play part of DISSIDIA FINAL FANTASY NT for free.
  
• In the Free Edition, you can play online and offline battles with four pre-selected characters. The characters change weekly.
  
• Story mode is not available in the Free Edition.
  
• Some aspects of the Free Edition differ from the full version of the game (in addition to the differences described above).
  
• There are two types of characters: the 28 from the full version, who appear in the weekly lineup for the Free Edition, and DLC characters, who won't appear in the weekly lineup. Please be aware of this when purchasing starter packs.
  
• You can battle online against users from the full version.
  
• You can carry over your Free Edition save data to the full version.

This doesn't sounds like a bad idea. More fighting games should do that, so we can know if the netplay is not shit before buying it.

 

[Rahdulan]

Story mode is not available in the Free Edition.

Almost had me.

 

[Viata]

Another game killed by censorship.

 

[Terra]

How convenient, the site is down and I can't view the changes & "improvements".

 

[Viata]

Perhaps because many people are trying to access it.

 

[GrainWetski]

How convenient, the site is down and I can't view the changes & "improvements".

If the replies are accurate, they removed panty shots so resetera won't be tempted.

 

[tet666]

How convenient, the site is down and I can't view the changes & "improvements".

Here are the changes:

To ensure a release for the West, content changes will also be included in the localized PlayStation®4 and Steam® (PC) versions. To reduce content which could be interpreted as sexualization of characters depicted as minors, the following changes have been made:

• PlayStation®4 Packaging art
  • In order to conform to public storefront display standards, images that can be interpreted as too sexually provocative must be modified.
• Sachika Bedroom Scene CGIs
  • In the Japanese release, Sachika's panties are visible. In the Western release, Sachika is wearing pajama bottoms.
• Sachika CGI in the Opening Scene
  • In the Japanese release, Sachika's panties are visible. In the Western release, the camera angle has been raised to not show Sachika's panties.
• Child Rinko Extend Machine CGI
  • In the Japanese release, Child Rinko covers her chest with her arms. In the Western release, the position of her arms has been adjusted.
• All “Child” bedtime event cutscenes removed

Btw here are the removed cutscenes there is not only lolicon but also Grannycon.

 

[Viata]

And not buying the game. But I'll pirate it. I guess it's time to buy a PS4 if I want to play non-censored games.

 

[Reinhardt]

I guess it's time to buy a PS4 if I want to play non-censored games.

 

[Viata]

Yeah, who am I kidding? Sony is censoring games even in Japan.

 

[Reinhardt]

Even this article is about Steam AND PS4.

 

[Viata]

Even this article is about Steam AND PS4.

Buying jp version, I mean. Not translated ones.

 

[Reinhardt]

Just get nintendo.

 

[GrainWetski]

Just get nintendo.

I hear NoA/Treehouse is doing great work in between hanging out on resetera.

 

[Viata]

 

[Reinhardt]

 

[Goi~Yaas~Dinn]

You could crowdfund translations yourself. They're not gonna stop doing this shit, ever.

 

[Viata]

You could crowdfund translations yourself. They're not gonna stop doing this shit, ever.

I don't care much about that as long as I have the option to play the japanese version(be it now or some years later thanks to emulators), what I do care is about Japanese games being censored in Japan itself thanks to shit like what Sony is doing.

 

[MuscleSpark]

How convenient, the site is down and I can't view the changes & "improvements".

Here are the changes:

To ensure a release for the West, content changes will also be included in the localized PlayStation®4 and Steam® (PC) versions. To reduce content which could be interpreted as sexualization of characters depicted as minors, the following changes have been made:

• PlayStation®4 Packaging art
  • In order to conform to public storefront display standards, images that can be interpreted as too sexually provocative must be modified.
• Sachika Bedroom Scene CGIs
  • In the Japanese release, Sachika's panties are visible. In the Western release, Sachika is wearing pajama bottoms.
• Sachika CGI in the Opening Scene
  • In the Japanese release, Sachika's panties are visible. In the Western release, the camera angle has been raised to not show Sachika's panties.
• Child Rinko Extend Machine CGI
  • In the Japanese release, Child Rinko covers her chest with her arms. In the Western release, the position of her arms has been adjusted.
• All “Child” bedtime event cutscenes removed

Btw here are the removed cutscenes there is not only lolicon but also Grannycon.

They're only censoring(removing) the "lolicon" ones, which after seeing I'd argue the author's intent was for them to be cute (in the case of the girls who are more clothed in their child forms) or humorous (in the case of the young boys posing excessively for someone their age). You'd have to be some special kind of degenerate to "interpret [that] as sexualization of characters depicted as minors", but I guess that fits the SJW/REEtardera/Commiefornia bill.
As for Sachika stuff, yeah that was probably fanservice, I mean it's rather blatant on the author's part. She's not really a child though, even if she is short and flat-chested.

Also aren't they all technically underage considering they're clones who can't live past two weeks? Or is the reverse of "300 year-old loli" okay because they look like adults? It certainly explains Americans and their sexualization of teenagers as long as they have budding breasts or full asses.

Anyways, this isn't really the hill I'll die on, as much as I love dungeon crawlers this title seems easily skippable since the combat isn't even as involved as Grimrock (with its spellcasting system) and the story can be easily experienced via a stream or youtube video. It didn't even do well in Japan, and they're the primary market for this kind of stuff.