As long as you keep the installer and don't uninstall it, you keep it.

I think the pattern was Vocaloid, Song, anime OVA, Anime series, Game (those last two can be switched around since I think they were started around the same time).

They're both good, but the first one is noticeably clunkier in gameplay, the voice acting sucks and it doesn't look that great. The story is still really good, but the story isn't everything.

Yeah, the CG animation needs work.

The setup of where to go and all that is kind of a pain. I just used this guide: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0Aqs_mBqhdLO1dDJDTkZiMXVtZlQ1dXlpbV9Zd2pGRkE&toomany=true

No spoilers, but it tells you where to go and all that.

If someone like Michael Ancel (Beyond Good and Evil) spoke up, I'd listen to him, because he made a game starring a female lead who was a well developed character who happened to be female and who wasn't designed for the titillation. Gearbox...yeah, no.

I mean like, in Final Fantasy Tactics or Disgaea, most attacks take a couple seconds. In Ring of Red, an attack sequence takes a full minute or more.

Maybe because the cover has that white haired girl on it? That happened to me when I bought Atelier Meruru after (loudly) completely disregarding the possibility of buying God of War to my friend.

I have the PSN version. I find it kind of a pain to play because of the aiming mechanic and all that. A map takes forever to finish.

Honestly, the SMTIV DLC might be along the lines of the side missions from Strange Journey. You know, like the one with the toilet god, the one with the guy who keeps falling in love and so on. If it's like that, where it's funny little side stories that don't impact the main plot, I don't have a problem with it.

Oh, another warning, the dungeons in the DDS games and Nocturne tend to be extremely long. The final dungeons in each of the games are so huge it's ridiculous.

Although, I would buy Amazon being around after the apocalypse. I'm not sure why I would buy it, but I would.

Graces was the only game aside from the original Destiny that we got from Team Destiny. They made a lot less games than Team Symphonia IIRC.

I'm curious about what's happened at Namco Bandai. With a couple fumbles, they've suddenly really gotten into the niche RPG scene in North America. Tales of Graces f, Tales of Xillia and Ni No Kuni, I can see them expecting a profit, but Project X Zone? Are they trying to muscle in on the Atlus/Xseed/Aksys/NISA market?

I hope they handle it better than with Ni No Kuni.

My point still stands. Western developers and publishers were way too fast to write it off.