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Acquire your taste for the jRPG.

It’s the second edition of our brand new promo format, the Weekly Staff Picks. This time around we’ve decided to highlight a pretty new, but extremely welcome, addition to the GOG.com catalogue: jRPGs. They say the genre is an acquired taste, and it looks like many of the GOG staff have it - well now it’s your turn with our Japanese Roleplay. Three noteworthy titles of the Japanese persuasion will be discounted up to 75% in this fantastic deal lasting until Thursday, January 15, at 10:59AM GMT.

Agarest: Generations of War - Collector’s Edition, also known as Record of Agarest War, is an absolutely unique storytelling concept in games: the story of Agarest spans a lengthy five generations of protagonists. The game’s Soul Breed system gives you the opportunity to influence each future generation of fighters as your offspring inherits the best of what you, and the partner of your choice, have to offer. There is no better time to check out this outstanding game than now, for a whopping 75% off.

Though Japanese in spirit only, Pier Solar and the Great Architects is quite literally a modern classic and currently available 50% off. Originally developed for the Sega Genesis, you’d think it was the oldest of our three promo titles. In reality, the game was released in 2010 on the long forgotten system and successful enough that it was eventually ported (and remastered) to nearly every modern gaming platform you can think of, including Windows, Mac and Linux. Pier Solar and the Great Architects is still an oldie at heart, and with the HD remake available on GOG.com you can even pick between a fresh new coat of paint and the original pixely goodness.

Finally The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky at a -30% discount, is one highly-rated piece of a well known RPG series which started out as early as 1989. Trails in the Sky, is just a small portion of the extensive, six chapter, Legend of Heroes saga. This one is a must-have for all jRPG fans on GOG.com.

These three unique titles are a great start for anybody looking to get into jRPGs, and must-haves for fans already among us. The Japanese Roleplay Weekly Staff Pick will last until Thursday, January 15, at 10:59AM GMT. If you missed the news last week, The Weekly Staff Picks are replacing the Monday and Wednesday Gem Promos, bringing you more discounted games each week and more time to pick your favorites.
Paypal goes wrong again. It has been 8 hours already that I cannot make a purchase.
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mrcrispy83: actually no, to be fairer to !f than they probably deserve, they didn't design it to force you to buy the dlc. that's just how !f tends to design games.

Spectral Souls, Blazing Souls, etc. are designed exactly the same way and they don't have dlc.

The idea is more to get you to do multiple playthroughs and stock up on resources, hence the esoteric triggers and often having steep increases between normal endgame stuff and true route stuff.

the dlc is more for people with ocd and have to do absolutely everything in one playthrough, or have trouble/lack patience with the game.
I see, so you are first supposed to play through it with a lot of grinding and then use new game+ to actually play the game without grinding.

But it still would be better if they just made it so no grinding was needed in the first place.
I didn't see this sale and almost miss it!
Nice picks!

But, hey GOG, regarding the text about Trails in the Sky, it's nice to see you explaining for people not aware of it, what the Legend of Heroes is.
But... are you teasing us on something?
No closer to getting Agarest than I was at the start. Better luck next time! Still though, thanks for the awesome sale. I'm sure a lot of people appreciated it. :)