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Yomawari: Night Alone Comes to PS Vita October 25
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AtomskEater
Member
Well, that'll be another limited edition for me.
Pellegri Testament
Member
What a surprise coming right before Halloween, it's like it wasn't obvious enough that it was being held till then for Halloween.
Up on Amazon
Hoping I'll be able to just get Yomawari by itself; I got The Firefly Diary LE when it released before (this looks like it has all the special stuff The Firefly Diray LE had minus the physical version of TFD), so I don't need the extra stuff.
Hoping I'll be able to just get Yomawari by itself; I got The Firefly Diary LE when it released before (this looks like it has all the special stuff The Firefly Diray LE had minus the physical version of TFD), so I don't need the extra stuff.
PS: NISA Online Store says that the game is coming to Steam too
http://store.nisamerica.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=Yomawari
http://store.nisamerica.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=Yomawari
it's on the game card
Pellegri Testament
Member
store.nisamerica.com/yomawari-night-alone-firefly-diary-ps-vita
Not sure how I feel about them not just having a physical for Yomawari and charging the price of both games in the LE/SE.
Not sure how I feel about them not just having a physical for Yomawari and charging the price of both games in the LE/SE.
Oh that's nice then! Looks like I can't read.
Grim Patron
Member
Yea I already got HTOL LE sealed and have the game digitally. Would rather just have Yomawari than get firefly extras + yomawari.
Oh, the steam page is already live
http://store.steampowered.com/app/477870/
You can even pre-order it already
Releasing on the same day as the Vita version
http://store.steampowered.com/app/477870/
You can even pre-order it already
Releasing on the same day as the Vita version
lazyproblems
Member
That's a pretty neat deal for anyone who didn't get the original release of Firefly Diary. Great package for a Halloween release too.
Pre-ordered the LE for Vita, been looking forward to playing Yomawari.
Pre-ordered the LE for Vita, been looking forward to playing Yomawari.
Urgh, now I'm conflicted. I definitely want to go physical, but I've heard such mediocre things about htoL that I'm not exactly happy about paying $20 for it. Similarly, it's bizarre that htoL seems to be focus of the soundtrack CD in the LE. Its artbook is 3 times the size of Yomawari's too (though I understand this is likely out of their control). I just wish I could get Yomawari by itself.
It's bizarre to see them framing this as a nice bonus when they're still charging the full price.
It's bizarre to see them framing this as a nice bonus when they're still charging the full price.
yomawari doesn't have much music in it, and there wasn't a big art book in japan either. a yomawari limited edition would have been very sparse by itself, and a $20 vita game isn't something you make money on. i think that's why the retail version gives focus to firefly diary (where it was never available before), and the nisa store version gives more focus to yomawari to try and balance things out.
Finale Fireworker
Member
This is one of my most anticipated games. It's amazing how a game so small could have me so transfixed. I've been hoping for this since the Japanese announcement.
sixteen-bit
Member
Game looks cool, glad it's getting localized.
Didn't expect a Steam release either. That's awesome.
Didn't expect a Steam release either. That's awesome.
It's not an added bonus, they're doing it to bump sales for Firefly Diary. I already have it, I don't want to buy it again. Offer me the option of just getting Yomawari for retail, I don't want the same game again.
Anyone know how many tracks the OST has, and how many of them belong to Yomawari?
I'm thinking of passing since I already have Firefly Diary, and the artbook for Yomawari is really underwhelming (and I don't really need that tumbler thing). Plus, the price is kinda steep thanks to the addition of Firefly Diary. Was hoping it would be similarly priced to Firefly Diary.
I'm thinking of passing since I already have Firefly Diary, and the artbook for Yomawari is really underwhelming (and I don't really need that tumbler thing). Plus, the price is kinda steep thanks to the addition of Firefly Diary. Was hoping it would be similarly priced to Firefly Diary.
How About No
Member
Yay for Steam release
...and now I look at the title and realize I've been thinking it's been called "Yowamari" this whole time :|
...and now I look at the title and realize I've been thinking it's been called "Yowamari" this whole time :|
firefly diary had 17 tracks. according to amazon this ost has 18 tracks.
WiiRevolution1
Member
So if its two in one this means its big enough for a amazon release, right?
RIGHT!?
NISA only charges when shipped. This ain't good for my current time. Tho I guess I can just pay a Neogaffer PSN credit to ship it to me if it comes to that.
That being said, great news! I almost paid $40 on amazon for Firefly Diaries a few times this past year. I can't believe actually waiting on a game and watching it go out of stock worked in my favor for once!
I wonder if they come in seperate boxes. I guess it wouldn't. Hopefully the boxart doesn't suffer.
Edit: OMFG AMAZON! I SE THAT POST HOLY FUCKING SHIT YES!!!!
RIGHT!?
NISA only charges when shipped. This ain't good for my current time. Tho I guess I can just pay a Neogaffer PSN credit to ship it to me if it comes to that.
That being said, great news! I almost paid $40 on amazon for Firefly Diaries a few times this past year. I can't believe actually waiting on a game and watching it go out of stock worked in my favor for once!
I wonder if they come in seperate boxes. I guess it wouldn't. Hopefully the boxart doesn't suffer.
Edit: OMFG AMAZON! I SE THAT POST HOLY FUCKING SHIT YES!!!!
No freaking way. Yomawari can't just have a single track, can it?
In any case, the OST for Yomawari doesn't seem worth grabbing the LE. This is such an obvious money grab by NISA. I can understand the PC LE, but for the Vita, the target audience who'll want to buy this are the ones who already bought Firefly Diary. And the way they say that Firefly Diary is an "added bonus." As if Yomawari would've been $40 with a $60 LE, lol. Not gonna support that crap. Will just pick up Yomawari digitally on sale down the road.
Edit:
lol, wow. I guess it can.
Pellegri Testament
Member
Yomawari basically just has a main theme and then what is essentially nighttime ambience. The theme is very likely the only track worth mentioning they could have used.
basically here we are now looking at the compromises of selling a ps vita physical release at retail. what happened 18 months ago is not something that can easily happen in 2016.
Movalpolos
Banned
Way too SD for me.
EDIT: Fuck. Everything else looks so damn good though. Will most likely buy.
EDIT: Fuck. Everything else looks so damn good though. Will most likely buy.
I haven't really been keeping up with things, but what's changed? Is it more costly now to make physical Vita copies? I feel the Vita LE audience is still there, same as before.
Pellegri Testament
Member
I'd say it has more to do with just how dire straights NIS is in, that these kind of games with their tiny OSTs are the only things they can really do anymore. There's a reason why Nisa is pushing PC so hard now (other than being shown up by Idea Factory), it's that PC is the only thing that will really keep the parent company afloat.
the vita audience has been shrinking slowly but surely over the last year. that's why exclusives are a rarity and why physical editions are more or less a bonus.
it's always been hard to support the system, but certain companies could find a niche there, or continue it from their psp days.
nis in japan has this internal thing where they tasked their employees to create a bunch of little games in order to find a new breakout hit and train their people in coming up with likeable concepts. yomawari wound up selling 48k in japan, so it was able to find about as big an audience as disgaea 5.
pc is an inevitability. it's the future of games, along the idea that 'platform' means a first-party's collection of form factors versus a single piece of dedicated hardware.
it will.
Dandy Crocodile
Member
Hey, I never bought the first game so I guess I'm the target audience for that LE haha.
The Vita audience has been shrinking, but I feel the audience who'd buy exclusive LE physical copies are still there, strong as ever. Can't help but feel this was a bad move. Then again, with NISA LEs, I guess they would be able to sell them whether it was $30 or $60.
And it's pretty wild that Yomawari sold about as much as Disgaea 5 in Japan. That's crazy good for Yomawari, though it's kinda surprising that D5 is that low. I mean, maybe it's normal (I don't follow Disgaea numbers), but the series always seemed more poplar than that to me.
Pellegri Testament
Member
The main reason was pretty much that it was PS4 exclusive, several months before PS4 had shown any real growth in Japan. By the time people started really buying the system there, people had forgotten about the game.
Then again, they made the game so that it was basically impossible to port it to Vita. Disgaea 4 was already pushing what a physical Vita card could handle in size. No way was 5 getting a physical if it had been on the system, which physical does significantly better than digital in Japan, so much so that it's a death sentence for niche games to go without physical.
hm, as someone in the comments section pointed out, i am not so sure about a retail edition for us europeans
GodzillaDB
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I know quite a few people are understandably disappointed with the bundle needlessly bumping the price for the physical edition, but I'm probably the single person that feels relieved by it. I just recently bought a Vita and "Firefly Diary" was the sole niche title that has been slightly elusive to obtain as a limited edition for a reasonable price. I've been fidgeting for a week over whether I should take a leap with one of the scaple offers on Amazon yet NIS America comes out of nowhere with two for the price of one and extras from the previous LE to boot! Like I said, I'm part of an oddball situation for this offering. Hopefully a standalone compilation will be made available alongside the special set so that everyone walks away on the happy side.
Well, that doesn't make it any better. It's a kind of practice completely forbidden in my country, just to show that it isn't something easily acceptable by companies shoving a product down the customer's throat when they just want something else.