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With all the rampant and sad "Japanese gaming is dead" narrative, non-Nintendo Japanese games get increasingly under-represented. The situation is very serious here in France, where the press has been doing a total blackout on smaller Playstation games lately. A couple of years ago, there used to be import reviews and hype for any tiny piece of news from Japan. But in today's era of Western AAA, all this seems gone. I don't know English sites full well, but when I drop by, a certain number of news/reviews on localised games are constantly missing.

So what do we do? Isolated threads are short-lived and not enough to make those games stand out. So I figured we should have something with some staying power. This is a home consoles-centric thread, Vita-related news should be posted in the awesome PSVita thread.

While I say "import", it's not necessarily Japan-only games. It can (and should) also be dedicated to games that will be/have been localised so that awareness can rise and popularity arise. I will regulary update this with news from English/Japanese sites (I will use gematsu a lot obviously), my own articles and stuff here and there, but of course it will make more sense if more people are part of it.

So, let's build the list! I will try to keep a compact list of the major titles that are coming or not in the west. Just tell me if you want to see some particular games added.

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Senran Kagura Estival Versus (PS4/PSV) - Marvelous - JPN 03/26/15 - EU/NA Winter 2015


- News

- Trailer (NSFW!)

- Trailer 2 (still NSFW)

 

Dragon Quest Heroes (PS4) - SquareEnix - JPN 02/26/15 - EU/NA 13/16th October 2015

-  News

- Trailer

- my review metacritic 

 

Tales of Zestiria (PS3) - BandaiNamco - JPN 01/22/15 - EU/NA 16th October 2015 

- News

- my review metacritic

- English trailer

 

God Eater 2 Rage Burst (PS4/PSV) - BandaiNamco - JPN 02/19/15 - EU/NA Rumored (trademark filed)

News

- my preview

 

Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory II (PS4) - Idea Factory - JPN 04/23/15 - EU/NA early 2016

- News

- Opening

- Gameplay trailer

 

Disgaea 5 Alliance of Vengeance (PS4) - NIS America - JPN 03/26/15 - EU/NA Fall 2015

- News

- Opening

 

Yoru no Nai Kuni (PS4/PS3/PSV) - KoeiTecmo - JPN 10/01/15 - EU/NA Q1 2016 (PS4 only)

- News

 

Fatal Frame 5 (WiiU) - KoeiTecmo/Nintendo - JPN 09/26/14 - EU/NA 10/30/15

- News

 

Xenoblade Chronicle X (WiiU) - Monolith Soft/Nintendo - JPN 04/30/15 - EU/NA 12/04/15

- my review



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I shall inaugurate this with my God Eater 2 Rage Burst PS4 preview.

I've played the demo the past few so here's a little report : 

https://ryuz4ki57inenglish.wordpress.com/2015/02/17/preview-god-eater-2-rage-burst/



Import, huh? I've only done it once. Got a Korean/JP version of Lost Odyssey (which sadly doesn't fit into this thread as that game is widely-known) since it has the superior box art, but also features an interesting 4 DVDs box that never got to Europe:

 

Pics for reference:

 

Those Kaim hand-drawed DVDs cover aren't present on the japanese version I think.

I doubt someone needs a review at this point of this one, but I'll link the metacritic page just in case.

 

 

I always wanted to import Steins;gate as well for my 360, but two things prevented me from doing so:

· Region-locking.

· No english subtitles.

Same case with Idolm@ster.

 

Although good news for Steins;gate because Ps3 version is getting localized!

 

 

Last but no less important, I'm hyped for Tales of Zestiria. I'd say localization of that game is a given; and it got a nice opening week (topping VGC's weekly chart, actually!)

 



Great idea for a thread. Will try to contribute when am able.



Tales of Zestiria polls

Favorite character : 1st Mikurio 2nd Sorey 3rd Edna 4th Alicia

character you prefer to play as : 1st Sorey 2nd Edna 3rd Mikurio 4th Alicia

Glad that Edna ends up pretty high overall



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Omega Quintet opening

http://gematsu.com/2015/02/omega-quintet-english-opening-movie-screenshots-box-art

I'm pretty far in it, I shall be able to write a review in due time



Gonna tag this so I can read it later on.



oh, and my loot today =)



ryuzaki57 said:

oh, and my loot today =)

Damn that looks good.



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First Disgaea 5 English trailer

http://gematsu.com/2015/02/disgaea-5-first-english-trailer-screenshots