Limited Run Games (producing physical copies of digital games)

[Satoshi_Matrix]

I managed to snag the Vita version of Rainbow Moon. For me, that's the most exciting release from LimitedRunGames yet. That kind of game fits the Vita perfectly, and because I can easily dump dozens if not hundreds of hours into it, the physical price + shipping is justified.

Do we have any idea what's coming in September? I'm rather looking forward to Cosmic Star Heroine and Rabi Ribi. So glad to see these guys putting quality releases out on Vita!

[Aussie2B]

I got one each of each game/variant. Passed on the soundtracks this time too since I'm not familiar with the composers.

The games all disappeared for a bit and didn't come back up on. I Google'd Limited Run Games and then went under the first option and the games were back up, but even on there, Shadow Complex Bundle was the only one available at the time, when I put it in my cart it was already gone, but then when hitting okay and doing a refresh again, Shadow Complex the non bundled version was there, so I was able to get it. Would have been pissed if I had to do two orders because the issue the site was having, but would have been more pissed if I missed out on the games period. I can see how this would have turned out to be a mess for some.

It wasn't an issue with the site; they intentionally took down the listings temporarily before 10AM EST in order to prevent people from preloading items into their carts, which contributed to the problems with the last batch of games. You must've caught the Shadow Complex bundle in the process of it being pulled down, before it was actually available, because it didn't sell out super fast once it was up for real.

I don't know if they're going to stick with this strategy, but I assume they're going to do the same with the 6PM batch at least. Another thing to watch out for is that they're not splitting these releases in half. Since there's way more demand in the morning, they allocated about 65-75% of each game/OST to the morning listings. At 6PM, there's going to be 1900 more copies of Shadow Complex listed, and 1000 of Rainbow Moon on each platform.

Do we have any idea what's coming in September?

Dragon Fantasy: The Black Tome of Ice for PS4 and Vita, which is currently planned for release within the first week or so of September (I think I read them saying either the 2nd or 9th, IIRC). Then there's a still-unannounced RPG that was developed in Japan. I wouldn't be surprised if there's even more to be released in September since they're saying that the month is pretty packed. Though I know, counting variants, they don't like to release more than 4 or 5 games a month, and with Dragon Fantasy and the mystery RPG, that's at least 3, possibly 4 if the mystery RPG is multiplatform.

[Satoshi_Matrix]

I'm not collecting every Limited Run release simply for the sake of collecting them all, I'm trying to only buy the good ones.

Do you know if Dragon Fantasy is any good? I've seen a trailer and it looks like a B tier indie RPG trying to invoke the look of an early 16-bit RPG like Phantasy Star II or Final Fantasy IV. I have a lot of nostalgia for fourth gen RPGs, but they're all the later ones like Lunar, Lufia, Final Fantasy V, VI, Phantasy Star IV and so on.

[Porksta]

I'm not collecting every Limited Run release simply for the sake of collecting them all, I'm trying to only buy the good ones.

Do you know if Dragon Fantasy is any good? I've seen a trailer and it looks like a B tier indie RPG trying to invoke the look of an early 16-bit RPG like Phantasy Star II or Final Fantasy IV. I have a lot of nostalgia for fourth gen RPGs, but they're all the later ones like Lunar, Lufia, Final Fantasy V, VI, Phantasy Star IV and so on.

All their games are re-releases of digital games, so I imagine you could just check out Metacritic. The trophies double up as well!

[Aussie2B]

I haven't played Dragon Fantasy myself, but I have heard that the physical release is improved from the digital versions of the game currently available.

I guess it had been very appropriate of me to call the unannounced September RPG a "mystery RPG" because it is, in fact, Mystery Chronicle: One Way Heroics from Spike Chunsoft. I think those who were clamoring for Japanese games and industry-made games will be pretty pleased with this, though it's obviously one of Spike Chunsoft's lower budget titles.

[kupomogli]

I'll be buying both versions of One Way Heroics, loved the original on PC. There's a ton of different perks available to create your characters and many different types of classes to acquire, but after acquiring everything, the game does get pretty repetitive. It doesn't have quite the long lasting value most rogue likes have, but it's an amazing experience for around the first 10 hours or so because the unique style of it, game feels like an adventure over a dungeon crawl.

[Aussie2B]

There's one more game for September, for both Vita and PS4, that LRG describes as a platformer/adventure game. So I guess that's why they were saying September is packed, since if you count the platform variants, that's 6 releases, and that's not even getting into possible OSTs and what have you.