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Brace yourself for a long marathon of fun with a solid bunch of games from IDEA FACTORY making a debut on GOG.COM:

DATE A LIVE: Rio Reincarnation (-65%)
Death end re;Quest (-70%)
Death end re;Quest 2 (-60%)
Dragon Star Varnir (-70%)
Fairy Fencer F: Advent Dark Force (-60%)
Hakuoki: Kyoto Winds (-35%)
Hakuoki: Edo Blossoms (-35%)
Moero Chronicles (-50%)
Hyperdimension Neptunia U: Action Unleashed (-55%)
Neptunia Virtual Stars (-60%)
Super Neptunia RPG (-70%)

You can also buy DLCs on GOG.COM for some of the mentioned above titles. Hurry up and make a purchase before the discounts on games from IDEA FACTORY expire on 19th November 2021, at 2 PM UTC.
Are these games the weekend deal ?
Damn, was hoping for a PC port of Mary Skelter 2, oh well.
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Ancient-Red-Dragon: I also just noticed that Death end re;Quest 2 is missing "Controller Support" from the Feature List on GOG, yet on Steam it does have Controller Support.

Is that just an error on the GOG store page of how it's listed?

And what about Achievements, maybe these games do have them but they are listed incorrectly as not having them?

Can anyone confirm whether or not these Death end re;Quest games are indeed missing Galaxy Achievements?
I can say for all games I ever bought here that has controller support on other pc storefronts have it here unsure about if these cases but odds are quite good these have controler support as a result as a majority of my games on here (over a thousand according to G.O.G stats) and several hundreds of which don't list controller support here yet they do elsewhere and they indeed have have controller support on GOG which is great as I prefer controllers .. I can only assume they don't list it as several are for modern games not a standard controller input as some I need to take out a older controller for to have a controller register or have one with that controller switch on what it'd register as

Still I must ask whats your love of Achievements for anyway? I don't get the interest for em at all so asking on that
Post edited November 12, 2021 by BanditKeith2
Which of these games actually have good stories?
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EnforcerSunWoo: Damn, was hoping for a PC port of Mary Skelter 2, oh well.
Might be a weird situation to license, since apparently Hameln's original voice actress dropped the role after the second game came out.
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_Auster_: One example of this "low effort censorship", taken from the promotional images in its Steam store page:
https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/1266220/ss_d38918ff604d236c91fde22bab4cf549ef1fe6ea.1920x1080.jpg
(IF be like "we can't have bare skin in an underboob cleavage, so let's slap some green textures and pretend it's clothing")
Apologies but that (and the other 2 protag) outfits have looked like that since they were concept art. source: I own the official artbook. It's what one could call a semi-transparent plugsuit.

EDIT: i am as anti-censorship as it gets but please let us not invent stuff where it does not exist.
Post edited November 12, 2021 by Hikage1983
"Neptunia All Stars" should have tons of DLC. Needed or not. Hm. Will we get that one in future or never?

I don't think that stuff is automatically included in the GOG version...
Post edited November 12, 2021 by Anime-BlackWolf
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Anime-BlackWolf: "Neptunia All Stars" should have tons of DLC. Needed or not. Hm. Will we get that one in future or never?

I don't think that stuff is automatically included in the GOG version...
Are you referring to Neptunia Virtual Stars? If so, it says at the bottom of the store page that DLC will come at a later date.
Post edited November 12, 2021 by Hikage1983
So, looks like these games might possibly be interesting.

Which leads to some questions:
* Which of these games have the most interesting growth and/or skill systems?
* Which of these games have the best gameplay? (In particular, I would prefer random encounters to be interesting, and for the game to have a diverse set of healing options.)
* How is the difficulty in these games?
* Also, I need to ask, do the turn-based games have any non-turn-based minigames, and do any of them have mandatory insta-fail stealth sections?
Wishlist for missing IDEA Factory titles, please vote for them, just to be sure:

- "Omega Quintet":
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games#search=quintet

- "Azure Lane Crosswave":
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games#search=azur%20lane

- "Hyperdevotion Noire - Goddess Black Heart (Neptunia)":
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games#search=hyperdevotion%20noire

- "Cyberdimension Neptunia: 4 Goddesses Online":
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games#search=cyberdimension

- "Megatagmension Blanc + Neptune vs. Zombies (Neptunia):
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games#search=megatagmension

- "Monster Monpiece"
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games#search=monpiece

- "Mugen Souls" + "Mugen Souls Z"
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games#search=Mugen%20Souls

- "Neptunia Shooter"
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games#search=Neptunia%20shooter

- "Record of Agarest War Mariage"
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games#search=Mariage

- "Sorcery Saga - Curse of the Great Curry God"
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games#search=curry%20god

- "Superdimension Neptune vs. SEGA Hard Girls"
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games#search=sega%20hard

- "Trillion: God of Destruction"
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games#search=Trillion

- "7'Scarlet"
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games#search=7Scarlet

I hope i forget none.
Post edited November 12, 2021 by Anime-BlackWolf
Is Death end re;Quest - Early Bird Special time-limited or something, or is the name a marketing ploy to make me think I should buy a DLC to unlock the gallery mode right now and that's a totally normal thing to split off as DLC?
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Anime-BlackWolf: "Neptunia All Stars" should have tons of DLC. Needed or not. Hm. Will we get that one in future or never?

I don't think that stuff is automatically included in the GOG version...
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Hikage1983: Are you referring to Neptunia Virtual Stars? If so, it says at the bottom of the store page that DLC will come at a later date.
Thanks a lot. I seem to be blind as f*** today. Me bad. :)
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Hikage1983: Are you referring to Neptunia Virtual Stars? If so, it says at the bottom of the store page that DLC will come at a later date.
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Anime-BlackWolf: Thanks a lot. I seem to be blind as f*** today. Me bad. :)
No problem! Btw, you forgot Megadimension Neptunia VII in your list above. Many NEP fans (myself included) consider that to be the superior version compared to VIIR.
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dtgreene: So, looks like these games might possibly be interesting.

Which leads to some questions:
* Which of these games have the most interesting growth and/or skill systems?
* Which of these games have the best gameplay? (In particular, I would prefer random encounters to be interesting, and for the game to have a diverse set of healing options.)
* How is the difficulty in these games?
* Also, I need to ask, do the turn-based games have any non-turn-based minigames, and do any of them have mandatory insta-fail stealth sections?
The only one I'm able to comment about is Moero Chronicle, and it's weird.
For those that love a grindfest, it could be excellent, as the difficulty seems to grow exponentially near the normal ending until the end of the post game. What I suggest is putting the difficulty to max as soon as you can change it, and only change it if you want to face a boss or if you're getting too walled. That way, you can get the most money and exp out of each encounter.
But the story is nonsensical at best, which was a let down, specially since I went from Mary Skelter Nightmares to it.
And the game has a timer-based rubbing minigame after you beat most bosses, and it is mandatory to recruit them.
And talking about recruiting bosses, the game can be pretty meta, so some characters are a must to survive past the end of the normal game.
On the growth part, it's pretty straight forward. No unlocking specific abilities or resetting levels like Mary Skelter.
On the "is best gameplay" part, it's a first person, grid based dungeon crawler which, as previously mentioned, is a grindfest. Not sure if you'd consider it good or bad.
And the only instant-fail moments I can remember in the game are when you face enemies with AoE paralyze abilities or multiple enemies with paralyze abilities (either single target or AoE). For some unknown reason, if all the party members get paralyzed at the same time, it's game over, even though paralyze does wear off.
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Hikage1983: Apologies but that (and the other 2 protag) outfits have looked like that since they were concept art.
That doesn't necessarily mean that they are uncensored. Rather, it could just mean that the devs self-censored their art, starting at the concept art stage.

And I think such self-censorship is precisely what many of the complainers about the censorship in that game could be talking about.

So when you say the game is "not censored," maybe we are applying different definitions of what "censored" means.

I, and no doubt many others, consider self-censorship by the devs to be a form of censorship, which is just as bad as any other. These same devs self-censored Mary Skelter: Finale, for example, by toning down the suggestiveness of its outfits and such things as compared vs. the previous two games in that series which feature more risque themes.

That --- self-censorship by the devs -- is why Mary Skelter: Finale was released on PS4 in the West, yet Mary Skelter 2 (which the devs didn't self-censor) never was, since with MS2 they refused to pander to Sony's censorship policies, but with MS3, they did. But they simply did it to themselves before Sony demanded it from them. That doesn't make MS3 be "uncensored" though, just because the devs self-censored it.

So, to avoid the muddy definitions of "censorship," one could always rephrase the question to : have the outfits and other suggestive themes been toned down in DERQ 2 compared vs. how suggestive & risque they are in DERQ 1?