Hard to tell from the teaser, but it appears to be an otome game, which have generally skipped PS since the Switch came out, presumably due to lack of female audience in Japan.

Just like the Stallone movie, Starter Packlition Man.

Also, my friend lent me this game, so I guess I'll find out soon which side of the comment section I land on. I expect whelmment.

I watch a lot of anime, predominantly via the CrunchyRoll PS5 app, but I don't see the point in this or even really what it would possibly look like.

From the snippets I've seen, the flow of combat looks a bit slow and awkward to me, but I'm glad they're trying something new with it. I am a bit concerned, however, that the DualSense is the first controller to give me pain in the back of the hands, especially with heavy shoulder button use. I also have concerns about the story based on their recent output, but I want to give them the benefit of the doubt.

I've been thinking about going back to Yakuza 1 and getting some square square square triangle in before this comes out.

I question the point of writing about getting a platinum long enough after the fact that one doesn't remember what's required for it. Anyway, as others have mentioned, there are challenges where you have to collect a bunch of things within a time limit. For some reason, the spawns are completely randomised, so one run will be impossible while the next is incredibly easy.

I only played it on PS4 (and autopopped the PS3 list when the server stopped tsundereing out in its final moments) but it was a decently fun game. I have to go back and play the DLC.

Well, I guess I'll be playing Unicorn Overlord this month.

Oneechanbara Origin is genuinely a good game, by the way.

I don't have much interest in roguelikes, but a Furyu game starting with CRY with the same writers and composer as the other CRY games is a safe bet as far as I'm concerned.

The Japanese physical release will apparently have English support. I'm still tossing up whether to go for the edition with the soundtrack, given it'll be on music streaming services anyway.

I thought discs were against consumer trends.

(I imagine some people are going to grow tired of these jokes very quickly.)

I don't have any attachment to Beyblade, but I have a soft spot for FuRyu. Only the original IPs they publish though.

Currently speedrunning the stages of grief; I'm up to bargaining.

At least the statement explicitly mentions retailers selling digital codes, meaning we'll probably see some competition from online stores for digital games too. I wonder how the "consumer preferences" look for brand new games. I'm sure holistically the numbers are heavily skewed by all the digital-only or $2 - $5 digital games I buy... I will never pay full price for a digital game.

The PS Store page is live in Australia. $130 and $160, including tax. Which is funny because $70 Sony games were already $125.

Would've been fun to have the speed sliders go above 100%.

Anyway, the ability to restart cutscenes sounds good. More importantly, I hope they include a log of messages and dialogue you can bring up.

I'm not that interested in capeslop, but I'll probably check it out once it comes to Extra.

@Dragoon1994 It's Yakuza Kiwami 3 because it's a sequel to Yakuza Kiwami 2 and a remake of Yakuza 3. They haven't gone back and renamed any games they already released, so it would be confusing.

Also, they seem to be completely avoiding numbers in Like a Dragon branded titles in the west, whereas even the two canonical gaiden games include the number of the game they're gaidening in the title in Japan.

The "rubber bullets" jokes write themselves.

I was willing to give RGG the benefit of the doubt this time despite their recent decisions, but this has slightly lowered my optimism.

Not only would it be pretty easy to implement and lots of games do this (e.g. Yakuza since at least the PS3 days), but there are probably regions where it'll be forced off.

@Rich33 Interesting. I mainly meant Legends is newer and a bit more accessible. I don't know much about the game, other than that it has online stuff, which the hopeless trophy hunter in me hopes is gone in the redo.

Yeah, I don't think VRR should be necessary for a game that ran at 60 FPS on Vita and Wii. I just looked up the original PC version and it's capped to 60 as well, due to game speed being tied to framerate... I think it's safe to say we'll be stuck with 60 again.

Nice to have it on current consoles and it makes more sense than rereleasing Legends, though I doubt the resolution bump would be that noticeable. I hope it has 120 hz support like Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown.

The PS3 version came out in November 2011, by the way. I still consider it the best game to come out that month.

Supposedly, the reason for Horizon Chase Turbo being delisted is that Epic bought the studio and did a bunch of layoffs. Doesn't make sense to me why that would affect an offline game that doesn't have any obvious licensed content.

Your delisted games won't be taken away from you unless the publisher pulls a PT.

They're pretty bad, but the Cairn one probably is the best one.

I don't understand why the only publishers releasing avatars other than the occasional free crumbs from Sony are ostensibly Turkish companies specialising in shovelware. They release bundles of their games with AI-generated avatars that seem to at least understand the concept of a decent avatar, despite being slop.

On the Japanese store, some deluxe editions of Japanese non-slop games come with avatars, but it's rare for them to include them in other regions. Europe's always gotten far fewer avatars than North America and this stuff continues to boggle the mind. I wonder what Sony wants to do with avatars.

I wouldn't call it "no discernible reason"; they have to pay extra to have trophies retrofitted, and it's more expensive the more involved they want them. Namco and Capcom clearly don't think it's worth the extra cost, and they're probably right, but it's interesting that others have deemed it worth the cost.

For me, having trophies is a feature that redeems the otherwise mediocre emulations. Without it, why not just play on a superior emulator elsewhere? In the case of Time Crisis, more work than usual was done on the controls anyway, which presumably wasn't free.

They're in the "literally unplayable" bucket for me for now, but I will soil myself if R4 specifically gets trophies. In the meantime, I have too much to play.

As someone who believes there are no good English dubs, I hope this doesn't end up being the worst of both worlds (by sounding like an English dub).

Great month. I'm not sure how well I'll do at Wuchang and Nine Sols at the moment, but I wanted to play them. Glad they're on Essential so they're "to keep".

Makes sense for FC to be on there to add more bodies to the gambling machine. I'm sure it's a good get for football fans.

I think it still makes sense to vote if you already own the games. I usually just imagine I don't.

Might check it out when it's cheap/catalogued, but I'm not expecting much.

Looks like the publisher has another game called Spy Drops Gaiden in development from a different developer that's going for a 2D Metal Gear look with a Game Boy colour palette. Interesting that they're sticking with this IP.

Personally, I'd have gone with Gran Fortissimo to also sound a bit like Forza, but I'm perfectly happy for slop games to have poor names.

It feels like a mistake to put the year in the title of a game that's not released yearly.

@LikelySatan Thanks for mentioning the Persona 1 and 2 soundtracks. I'm giving the first one a listen now and it is pretty great. Part of the reason I've never gotten into Persona 5 despite buying it and Royal years ago is that I never understood why people were so enthusiastic about the soundtrack. The singing is off-putting, as is the rapping in 3, but the compositions often don't seem that interesting either.

In case anyone's interested, they're from VSPO!, the third biggest VTuber agency in Japan, which focuses on e-sports.

I like and am subscribed to a handful of Japanese VTubers, though I mainly just watch the odd clip. I know it's the intersection of the idol and streaming cultures, but I don't understand how people can pick one creator and watch tens of hours of content from them each week.

I think it would be cool if PlayStation showcases could be presented by VTubers rather than disembodied voices or guys in suits. I'm a lot less enthusiastic about English-speaking ones though.

I guess I'll no longer have 150 pages of slop to scroll through on PSPrices every time a new sale starts and will instead have to find something else to occupy my time. Sad.

I do wonder how profitable these games were. I always thought they were several times more expensive than they should've been when heavily discounted compared to the other slop games out there.

I always hated the English dub (especially Vanille), so I really wish they'd rerelease these games with dual audio. Phenomenal soundtrack though. Maybe I'll finally go back and finish it on PS3 so it's no longer staining my trophy list.

The song wasn't quite as bad as I expected, but I find it hard to get excited about what appears to be a story about someone wanting to be famous. Art style looks okay.

Good month. Premium is disappointing though and Soul Calibur 3 definitely won't have trophies (and therefore will be literally unplayable!).

Sounds just about ideal. Certainly beats ruining the look of the game like basically every remaster ever.

Thanks, I'm going to tell my Simpsons-quoting coworker that he now has to play Fortnite and he'll say "haha" or something to that effect and we'll both move on.

The headline reminded me of Infinity Nikki's "we seconded Zelda BOTW's game designer for 5 minutes", but it sounds like it's more than that. A lot of Chinese developers make stuff about Chinese history and nobody else really does. Seems cool. I'll probably play it if it comes out.

Even ignoring this drama and the recasts and Kiryu's shirt, I have little confidence in RGG remaking 3 well, especially after Pirate Yakuza. But I am curious...

I would have been excited to play Stray if I hadn't already platinumed it 5 times (1 PS5 list, 4 regional PS4 lists). I love that game; it's my second favourite game of 2022. 10/10 soundtrack and atmosphere. At least now I'll pseudo-own it so I can replay it or show it to people without having to buy it.

I guess I might check out WRC once I'm done with every game I actually want to play, by which time the servers for WRC 69 will have gone offline, let alone this one.

I hope it gets thrown out on the grounds that the girl is cute. I should probably play Horizon at some point.

If you think I'm going to buy a remake of a game I've already finished 7 times, you are correct.

I'm curious to see what changes they make, specifically to the orphanage stuff plus how they flesh out the antagonists. Also, if it's Michiru isn't in it it's literally unplayable.

@Jammer Every game they've released after that has PS4 to PS5 save transfer.

I'd say there's nothing "micro" about "pauses for tenths of a second", those are just... stutters.

Doesn't seem very ambitious in the hair physics department.

I hope the Capcom and Namco emulated games do get trophies someday. Having trophies is one of the few benefits over playing these in a better emulator elsewhere.

I will refrain from making the joke that American school sports topped the list in both regions.

There was a survey a couple of years ago and I said DW4 was the game they should remaster. I'm sure they take my opinion specifically very seriously. I've been exposing myself to 5's soundtrack lately and it's great too.

I played the Lies of P demo and loved it but never ended up buying the game, so this works out for me, for once. I often buy games years before I get around to playing them, but I was waiting for the physical version to drop in price.

For anyone not aware, they added difficulty options recently with the highest level being the original difficulty.

I'm wondering which game they'll imitate this time. I'd say Mario Kart, but then they'd have called it Kartsiders.

I should give the first one another try. I got recently far on PC, but couldn't get invested in the story when I tried it again on PS4.

@zhoont I mean... It's right in that it is true that I didn't think anything had changed! I've lost the concept of time, so it's entirely possible that the last time (other than a few days ago when I bought more PS3 avatars) I checked was after they changed it and I gaslit myself into thinking it'd been like that for ages. I apologise.

In case you haven't gotten around to checking on PS4, my PS3 avatars are not there on PS4.

I don't think anything has changed. You can't see PS3 avatars on a PS4/5 and vice versa.

Having to manually download them on PS3 is a pain (beyond requiring a console) due to the stupid download list, though if you buy more than one at a time you can download them all at once immediately after completing the purchase. That is, unless the store crashes on purchase, which is about 50/50 for me (the purchase still goes through though)...

I must say, those titles are all very cool arrangements of words.

The vibes would be impeccabler without the bad ukelele music, but this looks great. Both in the literal sense that I like the look of it, but also as a game. Looking forward to seeing how it turns out.

I was curious as to whether it would allow same-sex romance given the developer is based in China. I guess it will, but the developer has responded to questions about this with a copy-pasted message about being able to "develop affinity relationships with NPCs of any gender in the game" and I can't tell if that even answers the question.

They should've opened with a "fair use" or "no copyright intended" disclaimer.