This Week's PSN EU/AU PSN Releases, JRPG Style! (4/4/15)

Hello hello!

Welcome to this week's Playstation Network update post, where I fill you in on the latest media hitting the PSN for fans of JRPGs and other Japanese games.

In my searching for new goodies in the PSN store, I found a strangely large amount of avatars, a lot of good deals on some must have Japanese Games (Freedom Wars!), some DLC and an extremely worthwhile demo of Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines which has recently been featured on a lot of big gaming websites.

I'm really excited to try out Oreshika, it looks like a really unique game and I really just watch to see what it's gonna make my own face and lineage look like in video game form. Surely everyone is interested in seeing what a game thinks their fighting heirs would look like, amirite?

Here is the list below, have a lovely week all!

Avatars

Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines

Character Avatars:

• Abe no Seimei
• Kochin (Winter)
• Kochin (Summer)
• Kitsuto
• Nueko
• Avatar Bundle with all of the above Oreshika avatars

Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters:
Character Avatars

• Chisuga
• Chizuru
• Harukichi
• Hosui
• Iku
• Kojiro
• Masumune
• Moichi
• Sayuri
• Take and Ume
• Tei
• Tessen

Under Night In-Birth

Character Avatars

• Akatsuki
• Byakuya
• Carmine
• Chaos
• Eltnum
• Gordeau
• Hilda
• Hyde
• Linne
• Merkava
• Nanase
• Orie
• Seth
• Vatista
• Waldstein
• Yazuriha

DLC

Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines:

Paid:

• Tonkararin Pack
• Kiri no Mashuu Pack

Toukiden: Kiwami (PS4 and PS Vita)

Free:

• Mitama - Ichimonji Mari
• Mitama - Oda Nobunyaga

Free Demos

Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines Demo

Themes

Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines Theme (Free!)

Deals

• Akiba's Trip: Undead and Undressed (PS Vita, PS3, PS4)
• Arcana Heart 3 Love MAX!!!!! (PS Vita, PS3)
• Atelier Ayesha Plus with Bonus (PS Vita)
• Demon Gaze (PS Vita)
• Digimon All-Star Rumble (PS3)
• Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z (PS Vita, PS3)
• Dragon's Crown (PS3)
• Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends Complete Edition (PS Vita)
• Fairy Fencer F (PS3)
• Freedom Wars (PS Vita)
• Hyperdimension Neptunia: Producing Perfection (PS Vita)
• Hyperdimension Neptunia: Victory (PS3)
• Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle - Joestar Offer (PS3)
• Monster Hunter: Freedom Unite (PSP, PS Vita)
• Muramasa Rebirth (PS Vita)
• Natural Doctrine (PS Vita, PS4)
• Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch (PS3)
• One Piece: Pirate Warriors (PS3)
• One Piece: Pirate Warriors - Grand Line Edition (PS3)
• One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2 (PS3)
• One Piece: Unlimited World Red (PS Vita, PS3)
• Resonance of Fath (PS3)
• Sorcery Saga: Curse of the Great Curry God (PS Vita)
• Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment (PS Vita)
• Tales of Hearts R + 6 Tales of franchise Costume Set! (PS Vita)
• Tales of Symphonia (PS3)
• Tales of Symphonia Chronicles (PS3)
• Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of a New World (PS3)
• Tales of Xillia 2 (PS3)
• Tears to Tiara II: Heir of the Overload (PS3)
• Touch My Katamari (PS Vita)
• Under Defeat HD: Deluxe Edition (PS3)
• Virtue's Last Reward (PS Vita)
• Virtue's Last Reward: Complete Collection (PS Vita)

You can check out these games and more at the Playstation Network Store.

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What's your pick of the week from the PSN?

I love hearing your thoughts, so please comment below or send a tweet to @JRPGJungle and follow if you want to keep up the content we post. Also, feel free to leave a photo of your Oreshika clan below. :) Thanks for stopping by!

Please note the content available is subject to change by region and the content listed in this post is based on the European/Australian PSN at the time of writing.

Recommended Reading - Kotaku's Take On Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines

Being unable to read Japanese as of yet sometimes leaves me with a problem: I would love to tell you guys about a certain game, but there's not enough English information for me to go off and the small amount of Japanese I do know probably isn't reliable enough to post about. Instead of giving sub par information about Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines (a recent PS Vita game released in Japan that will be released in the US eventually), I'd like to send you to read this great Kotaku article by Richard Eisenbeis.

The article covers mainly the game's breeding mechanics and why it makes the gameplay expereince special and unique for each and every player of the game. After reading it, I really want to try it....Which kind worries me. I just bought Conception II. Is there such thing as too many 'in-game' children?

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This Week's New Releases in Localised and Importable Japanese Games (14/7/14)

Each week, a lot of new games come out. At the start of the week, I read through all of the video game new release lists I can find and look for the weekly new Japanese games. Then I post them for your convenience! This list includes descriptions and links to both English localised games plus the new release games you can import.

Here are this week's finds!

Localisation

Sadly, I couldn't find any new localisations for this week :'( If you happen to find any, please comment below and I'll add them in.

Import

For people who know Japanese, are learning the language or don't mind playing a game in a foreign language, here are Japan's new release games for this week.

July 17th 2014

Shallie no Atelier: Koukon No Umi No Renkinjitsu (PS3)

In the 16th installment of the Atelier series, you can choose to play as Shallistera or Shallotte in Shallie no Atelier. The game is also the third installment in Atelier's 'Dusk' storyline, placed after both Atelier Ayesha and Atelier Esha & Logy. Promising larger fields and a wider variety of mixing items, Shallie no Atelier offers two different story lines that intertwine and offers different ways to play based on how you want to play the game.

Pre-order/Buy it (Standard Edition): Play-Asia

Hoppe Chan Minna de Odekake! Wakuwaku Hoppeland! (3DS)

I'll be straight up here - I couldn't find any reliable English information on this one! All I found was it's listed as an 'Action' game on some sites. My recommendation from watching the above trailer - if I had a Japan region 3DS, I would buy this for it's cuteness and it's younger-level Japanese to help my language learning.

Pre-order/Buy it: Play-Asia

Hamatora: Look at Smoking World (3DS)

With the same universe and characters from the Hamatoma series, Hamatoma: Look at Smoking World will have you solving the mystery of a group of people who hold magic powers called "Minimum" in the town of Kobe. You will solve mysteries as a fellow "Minimum Holder" and with Minimum, you will unravel the mystery.

Pre-order/Buy it: Play-Asia

Sora Yume (PS Vita)

This one was also hard to write about as I only found two sources to go off: one in English on a wordpress site (that also featured some NSFW content, hence why I haven't linked it) and on the official Japanese site for the game. The game's heroine finds a ring in her attic and tries it on. What she probably didn't expect is for a devil who has been stabbed by a sword to appear. Sora Yume is listed as an 'Adventure' game on Play-Asia.

Pre-order: Play-Asia

Sayaka Buccaneer (PS Vita)

Previously a drama CD franchise, Petit Rave are taking their franchise to the PS Vita in Visual Novel form. Set in the Age of Discovery, the Buccaneers arrive with a mission to go beyond the impressive achievements of Drake, the Pirate of the Dawn. To do this, the Buccaneers go their own adventures.

Pre-order/Buy it (Standard Edition): Play-Asia

Pre-order/Buy it (Limited Edition that includes Original Drama and more on CD): Play-Asia

Ore no Shikabane o Koete Yuke 2 (PS Vita)

Also known as Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines or Over My Dead Body 2, Ore no Shikabane o Koete Yuke 2 comes a long way from it's 1999 predecessor. The game is set 100 years after the original and presents a new story. Upgrades to the game include 3D graphics and utilisation of the PS Vita's camera, but the game will still keep the basic gameplay mechanisms from the original game such as the common RPG random encounters while introducing new mechanisms as well.

Pre-order/Buy it (Standard Edition): Play-Asia
Pre-order/Buy it (Limited Edition): Play-Asia

July 19th 2014

Mobile Suit Gundam: Try Age SP (3DS)

Based on the Japanese arcade game, Mobile Suit Gundam: Try Age SP is a card-battling strategy game that can be played by a single player or with local multiplayer. The game will include Gundam series such as Mobile Suit Gundam, Gundam Build Fighters, Gundam UC, Z Gundam and more.

Pre-Order/Buy it: Play-Asia

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Did I miss something important? Or maybe you found one you think fellow JRPG fans would enjoy? Comment below, send a tweet to @JRPGJungle or email jrpgjungle@gmail.com to let me know!

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