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[desocietas]

Return to PopoloCrois: A Story of Seasons Fairytale had its release date announced: March 1

Did anyone play the 1st one? I'm wondering if I should pick it up for the PSP.

[argyle]

New update (finally!)!!! 

Added everything I saw mentioned, but let me know if I missed anything. Also, everything I saw about God Eater makes it look like the two games are in one package - but nothing is clear about it at all. So I have it listed as one item now, but that may very well change.

There are some really good looking CE's coming for some games I've really been anticipating - a good or bad combination, depending on how you look at it.  I've recently put down preorders for:

Republique Contraband Ed.
Stranger of Sword City LE
Grand Kingdom Grand Edition
Street Fighter V CE

At least they're somewhat spaced out! 

[abe]

Added everything I saw mentioned, but let me know if I missed anything. Also, everything I saw about God Eater makes it look like the two games are in one package - but nothing is clear about it at all. So I have it listed as one item now, but that may very well change.

They were separate releases in Japan, so it's probably safe to assume they will be here as well even if they do release on the same day.

[desocietas]

New update (finally!)!!! 

Added everything I saw mentioned, but let me know if I missed anything. Also, everything I saw about God Eater makes it look like the two games are in one package - but nothing is clear about it at all. So I have it listed as one item now, but that may very well change.

There are some really good looking CE's coming for some games I've really been anticipating - a good or bad combination, depending on how you look at it.  I've recently put down preorders for:

Republique Contraband Ed.
Stranger of Sword City LE
Grand Kingdom Grand Edition
Street Fighter V CE

At least they're somewhat spaced out! 

Thanks for all your work!  This is one of my favorite threads    The only thing I noticed was that Gravity Rush and Digimon Cybersleuth are already released (I think they came out earlier this week?) so they can be moved onto the already released site. 

[kashell]

Return to PopoloCrois: A Story of Seasons Fairytale had its release date announced: March 1

Did anyone play the 1st one? I'm wondering if I should pick it up for the PSP.

It's not very good, which is a shame because it looks damn cute and charming. Battles are slow and are too random. The loading times take too long. It's one of those instances when a good movie gets caught in a bad game.

[desocietas]

Return to PopoloCrois: A Story of Seasons Fairytale had its release date announced: March 1

Did anyone play the 1st one? I'm wondering if I should pick it up for the PSP.

It's not very good, which is a shame because it looks damn cute and charming. Battles are slow and are too random. The loading times take too long. It's one of those instances when a good movie gets caught in a bad game.

Ah, thank you! Yeah, the reviews were pretty lukewarm from what I saw, but sometimes I can still enjoy a game that others didn't care for. But the criticisms about the battles would probably frustrate me for sure.  I'll keep an eye out for how the Return to PopoloCrois fares. It's so cute, I'm definitely intrigued.

[Limeface]

Aegis of Earth: Protonovus Assault has been announced to release on March 15, 2016 on PS3, PS4 & Vita.
It's being described as a tower defense game with a visual novel like story.

[desocietas]

Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate is an enhanced and expanded update of Shiren The Wanderer 5, due out July 26th...
available for both physical and digital release for PS Vita.

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2016/02/08/shiren-the-wanderer-launches-july-26th-on-ps-vita/

[argyle]

New update (finally!)!!! 

Added everything I saw mentioned, but let me know if I missed anything. Also, everything I saw about God Eater makes it look like the two games are in one package - but nothing is clear about it at all. So I have it listed as one item now, but that may very well change.

There are some really good looking CE's coming for some games I've really been anticipating - a good or bad combination, depending on how you look at it.  I've recently put down preorders for:

Republique Contraband Ed.
Stranger of Sword City LE
Grand Kingdom Grand Edition
Street Fighter V CE

At least they're somewhat spaced out! 

Thanks for all your work!  This is one of my favorite threads    The only thing I noticed was that Gravity Rush and Digimon Cybersleuth are already released (I think they came out earlier this week?) so they can be moved onto the already released site.

Ya, I decided to leave released games on the list until the following Tues, just in case anyone wants to see what just released that week. Gonna try to do updates once a week on Tues, we'll see how that goes.   Thanks for the help guys!

[argyle]

Updated! I also updated the archive website yesterday, and divided the list into years in the process.

[argyle]

Moved last week's new releases to the archive, but otherwise I haven't seen any new announcements.

[soera]

http://www.gamestop.com/ps4/games/dungeons-2/128648

[abe]

The visual novel Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness is being localized for a North American and European release by NIS America for Fall 2016. Only the PS4 and Vita versions will be localized, no Xbone version. Both the PS4 and Vita versions will receive a physical release. There will also be a PC version distributed through Steam.

http://gematsu.com/2016/02/psycho-pass-mandatory-happiness-coming-west-ps4-ps-vita-pc-this-fall

[soera]

Sounds like I have another NISA LE pre-order incoming.

[abe]

A couple more minor things from NISA's press event.

They'll be bringing Genso Rondo of the Touhou Project to the PS4 in NA and EU some time this summer. Digital only unfortunately.

They've also teased a localization of Criminal Girls 2 for the Vita, though there have been no official announcements yet. More info will likely be revealed in the next couple weeks.