But the success of Persona is only relative to other SMT games. There are games that come out in other genres that sell better than Persona but are seen as disappointments. Sleeping Dogs. Darksiders II. These were big HD mainstream games that undersold... but they still beat Persona! Calling Persona a huge…

Just as the Playstation Vita got rereleases of some old RPGs in Persona and Disgaea to pad out it's early life RPG quotient, the 3DS saw rereleases of a Tales game and a Devil Survivor game. I personally don't see putting an old game into a new box as terribly exciting game news, and most others I reckon would agree…

Surely the lack of RPGs at this big Sony presser wasn't a surprise? It always takes a year or two for these games to come out on new hardware. Despite succeeding the DS which had a ridiculous number of great RPGs, it took many months for the 3DS to attract even one original RPG. Things are clearing up now finally…

Wow. It's always scary when someone dangles the insecurity of so many things I've come to depend on in society (like Microsoft's servers continuing to function) in front of me. That was the real takeaway from this article for me... I'm probably not safe, and not everyone out there has as many scruples as SuperDaE

Kotaku isn't a monolith trying to dish out entirely consistent opinions on games. Richard doesn't like it when a game makes him feel like his time has been wasted. He probably isn't a Dark Souls guy. But that doesn't mean that other staff members can't have a different feeling on the topic and review their assigned…

Yeah, I don't see any new announcements here actually. With the exception of the two third party eShop downloadables (Picdun and Viking Invasion) I think this is all stuff that had been announced and marketed previously. And I'm gonna be honest... I wouldn't have thrown any marketing behind those two titles either.

I dunno - we've done okay haven't we? We got Fire Emblem and Zelda. We didn't get Gundam or Animal Crossing, but we don't have either of those games yet either (and in Gundam's case likely never will). The only promotional console that we haven't gotten to tie in with a game that actually got localized that I can…

Ubisoft has put out more Wii U product than any other Western publisher at this point, so if they're pulling back a big (relatively) exclusive like this I think that's about as big a red flag as they could possibly wave. If any Western publisher was gonna turn a profit on the hardware, Ubisoft was by far in the best…

I don't see why a NO game should be worthy of plenty of description and/or analysis. Indeed, it often takes more text to encapsulate a thing that is flawed than a thing that is good.

I'm totally in the same place as you with the Tales series... Symphonia was awesome, but then Symphonia 2 was not very awesome and Tales of the Abyss was downright rotten. I reckon that's a franchise I'm done with now.

It absolutely was. They just did a Sony direct. They cut their price and tried to drum up interest for their sparse upcoming software lineup. Exactly what Nintendo did in one of their first Nintendo Directs. Unfortunately, they didn't have Satoru Iwata staring at bananas or wearing a Luigi hat or equally adorable,…

I can help! First of all: Radiant Historia is expensive because it's gone out of stock. Twice. And I was dumb and didn't but it on either print run. My bad :( The odds of a third print run of the game approach zero at this point - too far into the 3DS lifecycle.

They've proven with both the DS and the 3DS that they're able to bounce back from a slow start. I will be interested to see if Nintendo is able to dominate the Japanese console scene with the Wii U the way they now dominate the Japanese handheld market with the 3DS. That's really where the 3DS bounceback is coming…

I've already played Persona 4 and don't feel the desire to replay it (it seems uniquely ill suited to replaying, honestly) but I never owned a PS1 OR a PSP. Just in Final Fantasy I could buy 7, 8, 9, Crisis Core, and Tactics. Also of interest to me are Vagrant Story, Tactics Ogre, and the Persona 3 remake. There's…

Holy SHIT man! That was better than any of the arrangements included in the actual game OST by a long shot. I am blown away.

Well that sounds excellent. The combination of PSN being a free service (and hopefully that will continue) as well as old PS3 games being unable to competitively maintain a premium price point in the digital storefront could lead to this system having a large catalog of cheap good games before very long at all. And…

Jason doesn't much care for Xenoblade. He also doesn't much care for FF XII, the game from which many of the mechanics are derived. This is a way that he and I differ.

Well darn. That's one I had given up on ever tracking down, but hearing that someone of taste (read: someone who appreciated how good FF XII was) really likes it puts me back in a state of uncertainty :(

The final boss of Minish Cap isn't unreasonably hard or anything, but it sure is a lot tougher than anything else the game has thrown at you up until that point! If we consider the entire "final boss sequence" then there are an awful lot of ways to lose hearts along the way. The timed three room gauntlet to get to…

Yes, it would be bad to jump in at this game. You don't need to worry about story continuity or anything because there isn't any, but this game is gonna be BRUTAL. First person dungeon crawling, first person combat with barely animated sprites (if they are at all), and a 15 year old approach to player guidance and…