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Review Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana (PS4)
We’re going on an adventure
Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana is the follow up to Ys: Memories of Celceta. It’s an action RPG which at its heart is all about adventuring and exploration. Ys is a long-running series that has been around since the 80s, but you don’t need to be familiar with any of the previous games to understand what’s...
News Have a Despair-Filled Weekend with Danganronpa V3's Playable Demo
Pupupu
Up for trying something new this weekend? If so, then giving the Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony demo a shot seems like a decent idea. The playable demo is available on both PlayStation 4 and PS Vita, and promises a quick look at the upcoming release. The finished product is due out at the end of next month, on the...
Review God Wars: Future Past (PS4)
God loves a trier
God Wars: Future Past is a strategy RPG developed by the makers of Natural Doctrine. Whereas Natural Doctrine attempted to do too many new and different things and ended up becoming overly complex, God Wars has taken a more traditional route and thanks to this, it definitely feels like a much more solid game. Events kick-off with...
News Penny Punching Princess Pockets Your Money in 2018
Get cash
That’s a good pun: Penny Punching Princess instead of penny pinching because… It’s, y’know, a beat-‘em-up typ—oh, forget it! NIS America has announced that the action role-playing game known in Japan as The Princess Is Money Hungry will launch on the PlayStation Vita on 20th March in North America and 23rd March in Europe. As...
News The Longest Five Minutes Attempts to Remember Everything in 2018
Take your time
The majority of Japanese role-playing games begin with an amnesiac hero, but what if the lead character forgets everything at the end? The Longest Five Minutes aims to explore exactly that, as you attempt to recover your memories on the PlayStation Vita in 2018. “As the story unfolds, the conversations you have with your party and...
Review Cladun Returns: This is Sengoku! (PS4)
Katana and mouse
Cladun Returns: The Is Sengoku! is a fast and sometimes fun little dungeon crawler. The sprite-based title serves up stages that can each be completed in just a few minutes, and there are plenty of ways to enhance your character, resulting in a surprisingly rewarding experience. For quick stints of exploration and action you can't...
Basket case
The Silver Case is one of the early titles developed by renowned auteur Suda51 and his studio Grasshopper Manufacture. Unsurprisingly, the ticks and quirks that have come to define his recent output are present in abundance. Indeed, this is a profoundly strange game, and one that – for both better and worse – often feels...
Review Birthdays the Beginning (PS4)
Life finds a way
Birthdays the Beginning is a pretty strange title for a pretty strange game. It’s a god game in which you manipulate a cubic world in order to create new lifeforms. As far as elevator pitches go, it doesn’t sound terribly interesting, but it does just about enough to hold your attention – if only for a short time. You...
Review A Rose in the Twilight (PS Vita)
The rose beyond the wall
Nippon Ichi certainly knows how to tell gruesome tales featuring adorable looking young girls! The creators of Yomawari: Night Alone have returned with a brand new puzzle platformer, A Rose in the Twilight. It's a tale of innocence, friendship, and blood. A young girl with a thorn upon her back awakens in the rubble, deep...
Review Touhou Genso Wanderer (PS4)
Boo-hoo
Rogue-like role-playing release Touhou Genso Wanderer follows the story of adorable protagonist Reimu Harukei. Reimu becomes entranced by the 'golden sphere' that soon-to-be antagonist Rinnosuke Morichika is holding, and tries to steal it from him. Clearly under the sphere's spell, Rinnosuke fights back, and Reimu soon finds herself away...
Review Danganronpa 1&2 Reload (PS4)
The kids aren't alright
The Danganronpa series is built around a deliciously gruesome premise: a bunch of high schoolers are held captive - in a school in the first game, a tropical island in the second - and they're told that the only way they'll ever be allowed to go back to their normal life is if they kill one of the other members of the group...
News Mental Shooter Danganronpa: Ultra Despair Girls Panics on PS4 This Summer
Puhuhuhuhu
Previously a PlayStation Vita exclusive, Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls is bringing an army of evil bears to the PlayStation 4 later this year, publisher NIS America has announced. Unlike the main Danganronpa games, this spin-off fuses its visual novel roots with action and adventure, as you steadily shoot your way...
Review Yomawari: Night Alone (PS Vita)
Horror never looked so cute
Yomawari: Night Alone tells the haunting tale of a girl, seemingly alone, trying to find her sister and lost dog Poro in her small town. As our heroine's adventure beginss, it's clear from the offset that the town is haunted, and she must go on her quest without being caught by the many ghosts that roam the streets...
Review Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters: Daybreak Special Gigs (PS4)
Hits some good notes
Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters: Daybreak Special Gigs is billed as an enhanced version of the original Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters, which was released to Western audiences only last year on the PlayStation 3 and Vita. The story, played out as a visual novel, is developed through chapters, and is a fairly formulaic affair. New...
News Danganronpa and Danganronpa 2 Bring Despair From Vita to PS4 in Early 2017
Cue crazy music
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc and its sequel, Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, are two of the PS Vita's best games - at least as far as we're concerned - and both titles are heading to PlayStation 4 early next year. The compilation will be titled Danganronpa 1&2 Reload here in the West. Check out the brief announcement trailer...
Review Criminal Girls 2: Party Favors (PS Vita)
I hope that's a PS Vita in your pocket
The original Criminal Girls: Invite Only game was a fun, turn-based JPRG dungeon crawler released on PSP and then reworked for the VITA. Lots was made of the added, er, tactical 'rubbing' of the naughty girls in your party to power them up, which formed a series of slightly dubious minigames alongside the main...
Review Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness (PS4)
Don't worry, be happy
Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness takes place in the same universe as the popular anime show, Psycho-Pass. Set in the year 2112, an always online system named Sybil is constantly monitoring the mental state of the entire population, and pointing out individuals who are psychologically likely to commit a crime in the future. As a...
News Start Building Your Mercenary Squad with This Grand Kingdom Class Trailer
All together now
If you were lucky enough to nab a Grand Kingdom beta code earlier this month, then you'll know that Spike Chunsoft's role-playing release certainly has potential. As the commander of a roaming group of mercenaries, it's up to you to build a reliable squad of warriors, and the title's latest trailer does a good job of introducing a...
News You Better Hope SEGA Publishes Persona 5 in Europe, 'Cause NIS America Won't Be
Uh oh
Persona 5 is probably getting a Japanese release date next month, but the painful wait for any kind of confirmation of a European launch looks set to continue. For years now, NIS America has been bringing Atlus' games to European shores, ensuring that the likes of Persona 4 Golden made it overseas. However, following SEGA's purchase of Atlus,...
News Here's How to Enlist in the Grand Kingdom PS4 Beta
For coin and kingdom
Grand Kingdom, the upcoming strategy role-playing game, is getting a beta next month - and you can enlist right now if you're up for it. Starting on the 3rd May and lasting until the 10th May, the beta will be available in both Europe and North America, but only on PlayStation 4, despite the full release heading to Vita as well...
News Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness Clamps Down on PS4, Vita This September
Mandatory, repeat, mandatory
Announced for a Western release earlier in the year, Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness now has a confirmed launch date on PlayStation 4 and Vita. The visual novel title, which features player choice and multiple endings, takes place during the first season of the critically acclaimed anime, which first aired in Japan in...
Review Stranger of Sword City (PS Vita)
Outsider art
Stranger of Sword City does a great job of living up to its name. Trapped in a weird, rather haunting fantasy world, you're constantly made to feel like an outsider – someone that's stumbled into a series of events that they can't quite comprehend. This is a dungeon crawler with an atmospheric edge, and although it doesn't do a great...
Review The Witch and the Hundred Knight: Revival Edition (PS4)
It's a remastered kind of magic
By the pricking of our thumbs, something remastered this way comes. Yes, Nippon Ichi Software – the developer of the superb turn-based strategy role-playing Disgaea franchise – has decided to polish up its real-time battler The Witch and the Hundred Knight, adding Revival Edition to its already lengthy name on the...
News Take on a Contract with PS4, Vita RPG Grand Kingdom's New English Trailer
Romance of the four kingdoms
Sporting a pleasant art style and promising a lengthy story punctuated with engaging tactical battles, Grand Kingdom sounds like it could be a hit with role-playing game fans. The title's newest English trailer briefly goes over what you can expect from the release, so give it a watch if you're still unsure what it's all...
News Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness Will Monitor PS4, Vita in the West
Keeping an eye on you
We hope that you're living out your life in accordance with the state, because dystopian visual novel Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness is heading West later this year. The stylish title is based on the popular anime series, and features an original story that's set within the franchise's universe. Much like the rather...
News PS4 and Vita RPG Grand Kingdom Captures Confirmed Western Release Dates
A strategic summer
Grand Kingdom, a rather lovely looking role-playing title that features turn based battles, was confirmed for a Western release last month. The game puts you in the shoes of a group of mercenaries who take on contracts from warring nations, with your actions having a direct impact on your standing with each country. From what...
News Great Looking RPG Grand Kingdom Is Marching West on PS4 and Vita
Set to invade this summer
Here's some nice news to start your afternoon off right: Grand Kingdom, a tactical, pretty looking role-playing game from Spike Chunsoft - the company behind the likes of Danganronpa - is heading to Europe and North America this summer. NIS America will act as the title's publisher. So, what's it all about? Featuring both...
Review Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance (PS4)
Revenge is a dish best served on the PS4
In a genre that prides itself on balanced gameplay and character building, you can always count on the Disgaea franchise to be the outlier in the strategy role-playing realm with its ability to not take itself too seriously. If you've played previous instalments, you'll know that a wacky cast and...
Review Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls (PS Vita)
Hell is whenever
As sinister as it is completely crazy, Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls is very much birthed from the same minds as the other games in the series – except that this time around, courtroom class trials and detective work are replaced by linear third-person action. It's a gameplay shift that paints Ultra Despair...
News To No One's Surprise, Europe Has to Wait a Bit Longer for Persona 4 Dancing All Night
Thankfully it's still this year
And so Atlus continues its reign of brutal disappointment. Persona 4 Dancing All Night finally has a confirmed European release date, and it's no surprise that it's hitting these shores over a month after its North American launch. To be fair, though, we've seen far worse over the years, but it'll still be a bit of a...
News Despair at Danganronpa Another Episode's Intro Movie
Kuma 'nd see it
You may have successfully escaped from Hope's Peak Academy in Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, but The Biggest, Most Awful, Most Tragic Event in Human History awaits outside – and Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls arms you with a Hacking Gun and plunges you into the Monokuma-infested fray. Set after the events of...
News Vita Exclusive Persona 4 Dancing All Night Is Grooving to Europe this Winter
Things are heating up
Hurrah, the absolutely ridiculous Persona 4 Dancing All Night finally has a European release window set for this winter, and there's a crazy collector's edition up for grabs to boot. The Vita rhythm title throws the cast of Persona 4 into a new storyline that's all about busting moves, and as you'd expect from the franchise, it...
News Monokuma's Back for Blood in Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls Later This Year
EU and US release dates set
Hear that maniacal cackling off in the distance? That's probably Monokuma - the psychotic black and white antagonist bear from the delightfully daft Danganronpa games. And, as per usual, he's packing plenty of despair, as he marches back onto the PS Vita later this year. The comically named Danganronpa Another Episode:...
News Europe's Getting Atlus JRPG Lost Dimension One Month Late
Could be worse
Good old Atlus and its insistence to always be late to the European party. In the past, we inhabitants of the Old World have had to wait months for titles like Dragon's Crown, but when we heard that prolific publisher NIS America would be handling the European launch of upcoming Japanese role-playing game Lost Dimension, we had some...
News Danganronpa Another Episode Beefs Up with Limited Edition
Tied up
Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls may plot a departure from the traditional courtroom drama of Spike Chunsoft's murder mystery series, but that's not stopped the PlayStation Vita exclusive game from securing a nifty collector's edition. Available to pre-order from the NISA Online store, the set includes a copy of the title...
News Ar nosurge Plus Is Getting a Limited Physical Edition After All, But Only In North America
Be reasonable
Yesterday, Koei Tecmo announced that it was bringing Ar nosurge Plus West, but it would only be available digitally. That's unfortunately still the case in Europe, but North America will actually be treated to a limited physical release courtesy of NIS America. It's quite a neat little package, too, although it doesn't include...
News There's a Hunger For Japanese Visual Novels in the West, Says NIS America CEO
Danganronpa sales a success
According to CEO of NIS America, Takuro Yamashita, there's an appetite for Japanese visual novels here in the West. Talking with MCV, the company president praised the Danganronpa games for making "visual novels popular with Western gamers". If you're not in the know, the visual novel genre is generally made up of...
Review Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters (PlayStation 3)
Scooby Doo, my waifu
One of the really great things about visual novels as a format is the utter lack of effort that you have to exert in order to make the most of them. While games packed full of stressful situations and an immersive, highly tactile experience are brilliant, sometimes that's just a little too much. You want to relax,...
News Here's How Combat Works in Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters on PS3, Vita
"I ain't afraid of no ghost"
The gameplay of most titles can be summed up quite easily with words or pictures. You get a gun and blow off zombie heads or you pick up a sword and go hack-and-slash in dungeons – simple, right? Aksys Games' Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters is a different kettle of fish because – well, just how do you hunt down ghosts?...
Review The Awakened Fate Ultimatum (PlayStation 3)
Fateful random encounters
The conflict between Heaven and Hell is a theme often explored in video games. Is Heaven really made up of pure righteousness, and conversely is Hell really founded solely on black malefic intent? The eternal struggle of good and evil, polar opposites clashing against one another in a battle to the death – it can all be...
News Atlus RPG Lost Dimension Brings Style and Tough Moral Choices to PS3 and Vita This Summer
Didn't see that one coming
Will Atlus ever stop pumping out stylish properties? We hope not, but in the meantime, it's bringing tactical role-playing game Lost Dimension to the PlayStation 3 and Vita this summer. Going against the grain for once, it looks like us Europeans won't have to wait several hundred years for Atlus to localise it either, as...
News Danganronpa 3 Is Bringing Despair Back to Our Lives at Some Point
Misfortune comes in threes
Good old Monokuma never lets us down. The psychotic black and white bear will be making a return at some point in the future, as writer Kodaka Kazutaka has confirmed that Danganronpa 3 is in development. "It's still very early [in development] because the scenario isn't written yet," he told Polygon. Still, we're eagerly...
Interview We Cross-Examine Danganronpa's Producer in Lightning Fast Time
Under pressure
Interviews are something that we're trying to do more of here on Push Square. Hearing directly from the personalities behind our favourite games is always going to make for an interesting read, but unfortunately, we don't always get a lot of time. In this instance, we managed to pin down Danganronpa producer Yoshinori Terasawa just...
Review htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary (PlayStation Vita)
Fly away
With a title like htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary, this latest PlayStation Vita puzzle platformer seems like a strange fit for the Western market. However, niche publisher NIS America has made its name by bringing quirky little curios overseas, and Sony's handheld is certainly a haven for the unusual. The game sees you controlling fireflies –...
News PS4 Exclusive Disgaea 5 Brings Its Ridiculous Tactics West Later This Year
Killia app
The latest instalment in the wacky Disgaea series has been slated for a Westen release this Fall, and it's got a brand new English trailer to prove it. The strategic role-playing game looks just as crazy as fans have come to expect, with a ragtag cast of warriors applying tactical beatdowns to a whole load of weird and wonderful enemies...
News Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls Comes West this Fall
Trigger happy
While the NIS America press event overnight didn't reveal a whole lot, it did announce that one of the most anticipated Japanese PlayStation Vita titles, Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls, is launching physically and digitally in North America and Europe this Fall. Occurring between the events of Danganronpa: Trigger...
Review Criminal Girls: Invite Only (PlayStation Vita)
Crack that whip
There's a classic feminist anthem by Devo which goes into great detail on what one ought to do when faced with a problem. Criminal Girls: Invite Only isn't the long-awaited JRPG based on that classic musical achievement, but there are similarities. In fact, put the song on in the background as you play and, like Dark Side of the Moon...
News Go Dungeon Crawling in Operation Abyss: New Tokyo Legacy on Vita This April
Save Tokyo again
While the PlayStation Vita may not be seeing much love in the West, release dates for Japanese titles keep rolling in. Helping to pad out an empty month is Operation Abyss: New Tokyo Legacy, a dungeon crawler developed by the same studio behind last year's Demon Gaze. Set to deploy both physically and digitally, the title will be...
News These Criminal Girls Need to be Punished Next Month
Lustful mist
Upcoming dungeon crawler Criminal Girls: Invite Only has been on our radar since its localization was announced, even if it's for reasons as notorious as Monster Monpiece's rubbing system. Fortunately, the game's inmates will be able to keep you company this Valentine's Day, as the title will be released physically and digitally on 3rd...
News Disgaea 5 Brings Massive Damage to PS4 in New Trailer
Sage it ain't so
Nippon Ichi's uber-niche strategy role-playing series will be making the jump to the PlayStation 4 next year in Disgaea 5, and the Japanese outfit has released a new trailer to reveal what it has in store. In addition to the usual mix of massive damage and tactical planning, the title will introduce a couple of new classes and...