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Columbus: Ōgon no Yoake is an RPG simulation focused on a fantastical depiction of the life and exploits of the explorer Christopher Columbus, The story of the game is broken up by different eras of Columbus's life, covering his early life. then exploring around Europe as a young adult, gaining experience levels and taking missions from kings to gain fame, and finally setting sail to find a new route to Asia and ultimately discovering the New World.
Columbus sails around Euro[pe visiting port towns where he can buy equipment and supplies and chat with the locals. Exploring on land or sea however can land Columbus into a battle. While combat is turn-based, its slightly more in depth as players have to take movement into account to get in range of their opponents. Columbus can eventually hire two crewmen to help him in these battles.
The game has both a Normal Mode and the Historical Mode. The only difference is in Historical Mode, time is a factor. The game must be beaten before the year 1493 starts with time passing counted by every step Columbus makes. There is also a mode where players can practice sailing route missions of various difficulties.
The Jark Empire who hails from the fifth dimension has put the Earth in peril with its army of giant mecha. The Earth has its own giant mecha as a defender, named Raijin-Oh, who is out to stop the Jark Empire.
Zettai Muteki Raijin-Oh is a fighting game. Players control Raijin-Oh and have to fight one-on-one with eight different enemy mechas. Raijin-Oh can punch and jump in his regular form, but will need to either equip a weapon or transform to do some real damage to his opponents. Raijin-Oh can be equipped with a blade or he can transform into either a lion or bird shaped mecha, and fire a few missiles while in these forms. However, Raijin-Oh can only deliver a death blow to his adversary by combining into all of his forms.
The follow up to America! Ōdan Ultra Quiz. The game is the same as the previous game, albeit now with different trivia questions and minigames.
America! Ōdan Ultra Quiz is the first game to feature the license of the aforementioned Japanese game show. The game show is focused on asking its contestants questions that deal with several topics about the United States of America. The game is a mix of these questions and an assortment of mini-games.
Air Ranger 2 Plus: Rescue Helicopter is an extended version of Air Ranger 2: Rescue Helicopter. While the original six rescue missions are included, four new rescue missions have been added. Examples of the new missions include pulling people out of a moving bus that is set to detonate in a short time period and also a mission in which players have to capture a wild animal that is loose in a city.
Air Ranger 2: Rescue Helicopter put the player in the role of a rescue helicopter pilot. Players will get to fly several different models of helicopters such as the 300CB, OH-6D, CH-47J, AS365N2, BK-117-B, and MH-53E.
After a quick introductory mission is finished, players will enter a main menu where they will get to pick from three different types of missions.
Lesson missions in which players learn the basics of flying a rescue helicopter such as how to properly take off and land. Trial missions which test what the player has learned from the lesson missions. Doing things like going through rings for example. Rescue missions as the name implies are the main rescue missions the game has to offer. Rescuing people from a mountain crash, or a hotel fire, and other things of that nature. There are six levels for each mission type.
Rimokokoron is a puzzle game where players take on the role of what can be considered a director of sorts.
The game is broken up into six stages. As an example of gameplay, one stage will feature a family eating at the dinner table. One interactive option would be to click on a box of tissues than clicking on a man who is wearing glasses. This will cause the man to use the tissues to wipe his glasses clean. Creating enough of these type of interactions will cause the story of a scene to progress. So basically the goal is to figure out enough of these interactions in order for the story to come to a completion and the stage to be cleared. However, only some interactions are key to completing a stage, while others are simply there as time wasters as each scene must be completed within a limited time frame.
Ramen Bashi is a simulation game that lets the player run a ramen soup shop but also has an ongoing narrative to follow. The games setting starts with a post World War II era Japan where the player takes on the role of a returning soldier Kotobuki Hidezo, who upon returning home finds out his chef father has passed away and after receiving a letter from his deceased father imploring him to carry on his legacy, Kotobuki Hidezo decides to do so. The games follows fifty years of Kotobuki Hidezo's life. Each decade will feature four random story events which offers the player replayability if they want to see them all.
Players get to walk around a village in 1st person and striking up conversations with the locals. Most importantly they must buy ingredients for their restaurant at some of these vendors. The village contains a public bath, a movie theater, food markets, and a tobacco shop to name a few of the local services.
Making the ramen soup involves selecting ingredients from a menu to toss into the pot. The game will inform the player how well the soup tastes after it is made. After the soup is made, customers will come into the player's shop and place orders. Players are to let the pot boil for a certain amount of time than serve it to a customer. After the customer eats the soup, they will comment on it. The player is given some options on a menu on how to react to the customer's comment such as yelling at them to leave or apologizing for the poor tasting food. After a day of work the amount of money made is totaled. Earning money will let the player buy better ingredients so they can make new food combinations. This will allow the player to be more competitive in cooking competitions with other food makers.
The player also has a stress meter to monitor. Getting criticized or losing their temper at customers will cause it to rise and when it gets to high the chef will go into a rage with it having the consequence of having them age poorly. Drinking a beverage will help lower the player's anger.
Tomika Town o Tsukurō! lets players live out the life of a construction vehicle operator at several job sites. Players will choose a job site with the site foreman then giving them the tasks that must be completed at that site. An example of a task would be making the player dig out some dirt and move the dirt to a designated dumping area. Players must complete these tasks before a time limit runs out.
Players will get to operate different vehicles while at work. Vehicles include a power shovel, road roller, an off-road dump, bull dozer. and crane vehicles.
A princess is reading a storybook to four of her subjects when a grim reaper like figure pops out of the book and grabs the princess and drags her into the storybook. Her friends try to grab her and are sucked into the storybook world too Now the princess needs her friends to rescue her,
Hit Back can be thought of as a 3D game of Breakout but instead of bricks players have to hit balls into moving enemy characters. Each enemy defeated will deplete a meter for that stage and once the meter is fully emptied, the stage is completed. Players can choose from one of four characters each with their own way to hit the ball. Hitting styles include kick, greco, pony, and woyaji.
The main mode is the story mode which consists of twelve stages. The game also has a trial and vs. mode. Options allow the player to select the number of balls they begin with and the speed of the balls.
The Dragmeshia Continent is under attack by a group called Paradox. Paradox is led by Dogma, along with his accomplice Enigma, and its sub leaders who are collectively called Genius. They have tamed the elemental Sky Dragons, protectors of Dragmeshia, and are now removing large swathes of land which is creating havoc.
While in the capital Z-City, a rookie dragon tamer and friends Nick and Sarah run into a mysterious creature who they nickname Syrup. After an early run in with Paradox it is shown Syrup has mysterious powers so it is decided Syrup joins up with the rookie and they go an adventure to defeat Paradox.
Puzzle & Dragons Z is a tile-based puzzle game with combat. Before a battle begins players select their team, with a leader, and 4 other creature, plus an ally dragon tamer's creature. While the game uses tile-based matching, the game has a unique orb shifting gameplay element. Players can slide an orb to anywhere on the playfield in order to make a match or a combination of matches. Matching elements the same color as a team member lets that team member attack one enemy. Matching 5 of the same element lets a team member hit an entire group of enemies, If the player makes a large enough combo a Z-orb is created which when used in another combo will inflict more damage.
5 different orb elements exist, with them being balanced against each other. Fire is strong against wood, wood is strong against water, and water is strong against fire Light and dark are the other elements and are strong against each other. There are also heart orbs that when matched heal the party. Each team member also has a skill. Skills can be used after an ability meter is filled.
Defeating enemies earns the players team experience points which will level them up and make them stronger. Also, items can be found while out battling enemies. The player's creatures can be transformed to a stronger version by using these items.
This compilation includes:
A collection of six games that came in a big box that contained two keep cases:
Puzzle: Prinzessin Lillifee is a jigsaw puzzle game. The game has 25 different Prinzessin Lillifee themed puzzles to solve with 3 levels of difficulty (63, 88 or 130 pieces) for each puzzle.
Three angels named Lea, Leon and Emily, who go to school in Bunter Land together, where they are training to become guardian angels. To graduate, they must go around Bunter Land helping its denizens out with their problems.
Little Wingels is a collection of 9 minigames aimed at younger players. Mini-games include playing guitar, picking roses, playing football, repairing barrels, forming heart clouds, a candy-eating contest, painting, cooking, and blowing away bad weather clouds. Each minigame has three different levels of difficulty.
The player goes on a worldwide search by helicopter, hang glider, jet, and air balloon for their missing grandfather. This search will take the player to natural sites all around the world.
The main gameplay consists of answering a series of 15 multiple choice trivia questions about a natural site. Correct answers will earn the player points. The game has over 700 questions to answer for the 15 natural sites that get visited.
Other features include mini-games with different levels of difficulty and numerous rewards, including adventurer outfits for the player's character and photos for their castle.
Meanie Gwoor and his sidekick Finsky have kidnapped the unicorn foals and set the village of Bumbelhausen on fire. They want to abuse the magical powers of the foals to reopen the Dark Portal and bring evil back to the enchanted forest. Now it's up to Zarah, along with her unicorn, and her dragon pal Schuppi to go on an adventure to Gwoor's castle and put a stop to his evil intentions.
Zarah: Das Schloss des Gwoor is the follow-up to Sarah: Keeper of the Unicorn. Like the previous game it is a mix of action and simulation. Players take on the role of Zarah and use her magic wand to defeat Gwoor's minions. The game has a farm simulation element where Zarah has to takes care of the plants and animals in order to earn valuable opals for new spells and potions. Additional features of the game involve some light puzzle solving and mixing potions with a mortar and pestle.
Puzzle: Blumen & Muster is a jigsaw puzzle game. The game has 25 different flower themed puzzles to solve with 3 levels of difficulty (63, 88 or 130 pieces) for each puzzle.
Puzzle: Diddl is a jigsaw puzzle game. The game has 25 different Diddl themed puzzles to solve with 3 levels of difficulty (63, 88 or 130 pieces) for each puzzle.
Puzzle: Sightseeing is a jigsaw puzzle game. The game has 25 different tourist attraction themed puzzles to solve with 3 levels of difficulty (63, 88 or 130 pieces) for each puzzle.
Puzzle: Tierbabys is a jigsaw puzzle game. The game has 25 different baby animal themed puzzles to solve with 3 levels of difficulty (63, 88 or 130 pieces) for each puzzle.
Puzzle: Underwater is a jigsaw puzzle game. The game has 25 different underwater themed puzzles to solve with 3 levels of difficulty (63, 88 or 130 pieces) for each puzzle.
Denaris is a tweaked version of Katakis.
While the levels are the same, they have been re-ordered. The re-release also adds an additional level and features an upgrade to the graphics.
An updated port of Ar nosurge: Ode to an Unborn Star. This release contains a new tutorial mode, new dialogue events, allows three additional supporting characters to participate in Purification Ceremonies, and includes all of the PS3's DLC costume packs as part of the base game. Three free DLC packs were also made exclusive for the Vita release.
In times past, a hero's use of three sacred relics have kept the Scarlet Lotus Castle town safe from a monster invasion. The relics were stored away in three separate dungeons. As time passes, monsters start reappearing again causing unrest among the townsfolk. The king decides to send a party of adventurers into the dungeons to retrieve the relics so they can put a stop to the current monster invasion.
Wizardry: Throb of the Demon's Heart is a first person dungeon crawler. Players create characters for there six person party at the training hall. Character creation offers 11 different races and 14 different classes to choose from, there alignment (good, evil, or neutral) and whether they're male or female. Characters have stats for strength, intelligence, piety, vitality, agility, and luck. Players can also import their characters from Wizardry: The Third Episode - Scripture of the Dark.
The game sticks close to the earliest Wizardry games. The town is explored through a menu, with the town having a tavern, shop. temple, and inn. The game has 3 dungeons to explore plus the training grounds which is a location in which players can gain experience on enemies they have already defeated in the other dungeons.
It is also worth noting that the game has a normal mode and a mania mode. In mania mode, the game will constantly auto-save thus possibly putting the player in a tough predicament if they go into a dungeon unprepared.
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