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Persona Game Overload

If you love Persona, Atlus and P Studio has more games for you. Three spin-offs have been announced for the main franchise. For Rhythm Game Fans (Dance Dance Revolution, Rock Band, Hatsune Miku), Persona 3: Dancing Moon Night and Persona 5: Dancing Star Night. While they definitely don’t keep the same theme as their original games, they are non-canonical stories. Persona 4: Dancing All Night had a story for the game, so it’ll be interesting to see what the developers have in store for Persona 3: Dancing Moon Night and Persona 5: Dancing Star Night. Persona 5 had a reference to a character in Persona 4: Dancing All Night but no other mentions. They will release for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita in 2018 for Japan.

Also, P Studio also announced Persona Q2, a sequel to the Nintendo 3DS Etrian Odyssey type game: Persona Q. All that has been shown is the logo which alludes to Persona 5 characters. The original was a connection story for Persona 3 and 4.

Sources: Polygon Eurogamer

Super NES Classic Pre-order *Update

Update: 8/1/2017

The official word from Nintendo: You can now pre-order the Super Nintendo Classic Mini late this month. I highly recommend pre-ordering this if you are interested. Last year, the NES Mini was sold out everywhere and stopped production in April. Although Nintendo has stated they will produce a significant amount of units, you can expect many retailers to be sold out if you are waiting to find it in stores. Nintendo stated

“A significant amount of additional systems will be shipped to stores for launch day, and throughout the balance of the calendar year.”

They will eventually stop production in the following year similar to the NES Classic Mini.

Wal-Mart recently cancelled all pre-orders from their website late in July due to a technical issue. If you have pre-ordered before this article, I recommend checking your e-mail to see if your order was cancelled.

Sources: Nintendo

Polygon 

If you have been looking for the Super NES, you’re gonna wanna sign up ASAP. They were first available for pre-order on Walmart.com. They are currently sold out now. (Of course). You can now receive updates on online retailers such as Amazon and Best Buy. These are not pre-orders, simply alert responses when they come back in stock. It’s a slow news day. Many of the links are for the United States only.

Persona 5 Anime announced for 2018!

The critically acclaimed Japanese Role-Playing Game (JRPG), Persona 5, will have an anime adaptation scheduled to release in 2018! Released worldwide earlier this year, the Atlus RPG has received rave reviews from gamers. The animation will be done by A-1 productions whose recent works include Sword Art Online, Aldonoah Zero, Fairy Tail, and Persona 4 Golden: The Animation. Voice actors have all been announced and the teaser trailer is below. No actual footage is shown but I’m a huge fan of the game and series so I am excited about the anime.

Sources: IGN

Angry Pokemon Go-Fest Attendees sue Niatic

If you read my previous article regarding Pokemon Go-Fest, you might notice that some people were unhappy with the entire experience. People came all over the world to Chicago to catch Legendary Pokemon and experience an event dedicated to a game they enjoy on a daily basis. But constant game failures, lack of response, long lines in summer heat and slow fixes led to a complete event failure for Niantic. To apologize, they refunded all the attendees, gave them $100 worth of in-game currency, and Lugia. It was inevitable that somebody would sue Niantic and the first person was Jonathan Norton from California. Thomas Zimmerman is a Chicago lawyer who is supporting his and other people’s cases.

Since Jonathan’s first lawsuit, 20 – 30 lawsuits have followed as of July 27. They are mostly suing for negligence and Niantic not refunding participants’ plane ride ticket to Chicago.  Zimmerman stated

“Niantic is not offering to refund people’s travel expenses for coming to Chicago. Most of the people came from out of state, many people from other countries — I talked to someone who flew in from Japan.”

While Niantic did extend the time of the event and increase the range for catching Pokemon, Zimmerman stated it wasn’t enough. He stated

“The issue is, what was promised, what was the incentive that people relied on and the representations that people relied on to buy a ticket and make travel plans and fly to Chicago to participate in this festival, would they have done that had they known that that was not going to be lived up to and they weren’t going to get the experience that was represented?”

Opinion:

I personally think that paying for everyone’s plane ride ticket is too much. Yes, the event failed to meet anybody’s expectations but if you purchase a ticket, there is always a risk. This is the same for any concerts or any outdoor events. Regardless of how awful it is, companies don’t owe you for the trip because they didn’t plan the ride.

Do you think Niantic should refund participants for their plane tickets? Or do you think this is too much?

Sources:

Polygon

Chicago Sun Times