2012: The year of Square-Enix?
2012. The year of dragon. The year of the apocalypse. An Olympic year. An election year. The year that vampires inherit the earth
The State of Gaming: Nintendo
E3 went down a few weeks ago and while there were no real earth shattering announcements (thanks to the ever persistance subculture of everything getting leaked), all in all it was a pretty good show. The rest of the year is looking pretty good indeed, with some of the smaller titles like Child Of Eden
First up: Nintendo.
PSN Store Back Up, Welcome Back Content Now Available
It's taken a really long time, but Sony has finally gotten PSN back up, along with the PlayStation Store and its promised free content. Two games for the PS3, two games for the PSP (choose from a short list of both; my suggestions: Infamous and Wipeout HD for the PS3, ModNation Racers and Killzone Liberation for the PSP), and 30 free days of PSN Plus (which includes a handful of other free games that will stop being free when your subscription runes out). To access this content, just log on to PSN, access the PlayStation Store, then access the Welcome Back featured icon. You can get your free PSN Plus and download your four free games. Even if you don't have a PSP
Be prepared for some errors in the PlayStation Store, though. The service seems to be choked with users looking to get free stuff and catch up on a month of missing DLC, but if you keep trying to access the menu and your choice of game, you'll eventually get there. I accessed all four downloads and PSN Plus registration pretty quickly, despite the parade of error messages.
Sony Ericsson Xperia Play: There’s Good News and Bad News
Hey! Have you heard about the PlayStation Phone? Sony's totally making a PlayStation Phone! No, really! PlayStation Phone! PlayStation Phoooone!
Yeah, that didn't happen. The NGP might turn out to be something like a PlayStation phone, but the slide-open, gamepad-equipped, Android-powered Sony Ericsson Xperia Play is most definitely not a PlayStation phone. In fact, it proves that the whole "PlayStation Suite" and "PlayStation Certified" thing is basically bullcrap. All is not lost, though. This phone is surprisingly awesome in its own way, just not with any real Sony game presence on it. Find out more in our gaming feature review of the phone.
Prinny 2: The Fine Line Between Hard and Unfair
Nippon Ichi has gotten a lot of mileage out of the Disgaea engine and art assets. First, they made over a half dozen tactical RPGs. Second, they made a clever, unique dungeon crawler in the form of Z.H.P. Unlosing Ranger vs. Darkdeath Evilman
Dissidia 012[duodecim]: Final Fantasy Japanese Release Shows a Hopeful Trend
Normally, we don't report on Japanese release dates here at Aggrogate, because, hey, we're not in Japan. That being said, it's worth noting the release of Dissidia 012[duodecim]:Final Fantasy because of one interesting fact. Siliconera reports that the sequel to the PSP only game will be launching Japan on March 3rd and will be coupled with a typical Japanese limited edition PSP; this particular one will come with images of Chaos and Cosmos on it, though no pictures have been released yet. What's most interesting about this is the price: the PSP game will cost 6,090¥ (~$72) in stores, but will only cost 4,980¥ (~$60) on PSN. To my knowledge, most games on PSP have parity for the retail and the digital release and, on occasion, the digital release lags behind the retail, though this occurrence has lessened since the PSN moved to Tuesday releases. As a fan of the digital revolution and a rare lover of the PSPgo, I find this wholly encouraging.
Dissidia Sequel Gameplay Clips
So far they've announced 5 new characters in the sequel to Dissidia: Final Fantasy. We've got video showcasing of four of those characters in combat. Above is most recently announced Laguna Loire of Final Fantasy VIII taking on the protagonist of the latest game, Lightning Farron. Embedded after the break is a clip of Final Fantasy XII's Vaan taking on Tifa Lockheart of the Final Fantasy VII series. The sequel to the PSP exclusive is scheduled to hit sometime early next year.
(via Andriasang)
Z.H.P.: Unlosing Ranger Vs. Darkdeath Evilman: Great, The Title’s So Long Now There’s No Room For A Headline
NIS America is climbing out of its Disgaea rut with the bizarrely-named Z.H.P. Unlosing Ranger Vs. Darkdeath Evilman
While Z.H.P. uses the same engine as Disgaea, it's not a turn-based strategy game. In fact, you only control one character, the titular Unlosing Ranger. No, Z.H.P. is a Roguelike game in Disgaea's clothing, a turn-based dungeon crawler in the tradition of Nethack, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, Shiren the Wanderer, and Izuna the Unemployed Ninja. Instead of raising an army of different soldiers and monsters, you have to run nearly solo through almost bottomless dungeons, relying on stat grinding, strategy, and blind luck to survive.
JRPG Win! Here Comes Persona 2: Innocent Sin!
Thank you, gods of JRPGs! Shin Megami Tensei fans are well aware that much like many RPG's in past years, there is one chapter of the Persona series that never made it out of Japan. Persona 2 was actually two games: Innocent Sin and Eternal Punishment. Unfortunately, only the second game came out in America, which made the game maddening to play due to the direct references back to the previous game in the series. To make things worse, Atlus remade Persona and Persona 3 on the PSP, completely skipping Persona 2.
I had given up hope of ever legally playing though Persona 2, but Atlus just came though! Siliconera just broke news that Persona 2 is not only coming back, it's going to be a full on remake with new content! With Atlus's track record, it's almost certain this is westward bound.
Hands On: God of War: Ghost of Sparta
Badass—if there is a word to describe the upcoming PSP bloodfest God of War: Ghost of Sparta
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