This week’s update on Gust’s upcoming action RPG Yoru no Nai Kuni introduces the basic game flow, a new transformation for main character Arnas, more subordinate demons, and two new characters.
"It’s always hard to put a final word on games that neither blow you away nor disappoint you, so I suppose I’ll end with simply describing that exact dilemma. Nights of Azure doesn’t set the world on fire, but as a Japanese RPG fan, I dig it." -PSLS
Heath Hindman:
"Nights of Azure, known in Japan as Yoru no Nai Kuni, will be coming to western PS4s in late March of 2016. I’ve been enjoying the Japanese version and thought I’d upload some of my screenshots. Here ya go!"
PlayStation LifeStyle's "Bloggy musings of a gamer in Japan" discusses common stereotypes about the Japanese public and gaming subculture, multiplat versions of Nights of Azure, and more.
Why the Love Live image?
Anyway, the paragraph about the misconception of Japan being A OK with sexulized images of young girls was good.
"The point is, next time you think Japan is entirely welcoming to the ecchi stuff we see in niche games, remember that it is still indeed a niche, even in its homeland. Not everyone is on board with using a touchscreen to jiggle a 14-year-old’s H-cup rack out here."
Honestly, this is one reason why I think mainstream jrpg have fallen in the past decade. Yes, all genres have there black sheeps, but jrpg have seem to allowed entire flocks of black sheeps into their herd within the past decade. It's to the point now where I imagine the dev spend more time discussing the length of girl's skirt and her breast size than they do the actual mechanics of gameplay or plot.
