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Japan exclusives
[edit | edit source]PS3 can play disc-based games from any region. (Except Persona 4 Arena, but that was released worldwide, so it's no biggie.) Be warned however that the games listed below assume that you know Japanese.
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Aquanaut's Holiday: Hidden Memories
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Adventure | The culmination of the Aquanaut's Holiday underwater exploration series, heavy on atmosphere and lacking in specific goals. Has the best graphics yet and an actual story with characters, along with the series' esoteric elements, like communicating with certain fish. A beautiful world to explore to your heart's content, but this game is very hard to find. | 
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Boku no Natsuyasumi 3: Hokkoku Hen: Chiisana Boku no Dai Sougen | Sim / Slice of Life | Japanese only Animal Crossing-esque game where you play a Japanese boy in the 1970's enjoying summer vacation. You do stuff like bug catching, hill sliding, swimming, BEETLE SUMO, and childhood games. The most endearing part is arguably the diary, complete with crayon drawings. This game is text heavy with no trophies and no English, so you'd have to know moonspeak or be super harcore to even give half a shit. That said, it is oddly interesting. Check these two pages for more insight. The "Best" re-release of this game goes for cheaper.
A project to create an English manual online was started, but abandoned. It will make the rhythm memory game and fishing a lot easier for you, though. |
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Gundam Extreme Vs. | 2vs2 Arena Fighter | Gundam themed two on two arena fighter, was the top hit in Japanese arcades. Has a large cast, and is rather fast paced compared to the other Gundam games out. Surprisingly, the amount of suits doesn't completely break the game as each suit requires a in-depth knowledge of it in order to be good. Also the game relies heavily on teamwork, so even two powerful suits can get wrecked by two grunt suits if they had better chemistry. Game is rather fun, but there are two problems: Import-only (unless you're Japanese) and is likely to get a disc upgrade December 2013-Early 2014 since the new version is out in arcades. |  |
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Idolm@ster 2 | Simulation / Rhythm | The only game Japan bought a 360 for is finally on the PS3. (Now you won't need to buy a Japanese 360 for your weeaboo needs!) As the producer, you'll have to use your management skills to make your idols the TOP AIDORU! This is also the closest you AKB48/SNSD |
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Initial D Extreme Stage | Racing / Fangasm | This is a very 'arcadey' touge racing game, definitely not for everyone (Touge = downhill/uphill one-on-one races in those windy mountain roads in Japan). In fact, chances are that only fans of the series can actually enjoy this. Basically, you create your driver and get to face each and every racer ever to appear in the series, while listening to eurobeat music (although sadly this game has the worst OST selection of all Initial D games). Some of those races are piss easy but there are some almost ridiculously impossible ones, that demand surgical precision and reflexes to take on those turns. For those unfamiliar with Initial D: it doesn't have that many cars, physics are weird, gameplay is clunky and every track looks about the same, but the fans knows what to expect (meaning every car and location featured in the series will be there, plus a few more, and all that DORIFUTO through the hairpins). |  |
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Megazone 23: Aoi Garland | Action Adventure | Only available in Japan, but there is an Oversea's Edition, that comes bundled with the Anime from 1985, completely with English Dub. It is somewhat a hybrid of adventure game as well as command-based mecha combat simulator. In this title, players will interact with the many characters from the series and control robots by choosing attack commands from a window. |  |
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Musou Orochi Z | Action | If you like the Dynasty Warriors games, this is as good as it gets. That is, so long as you understand moonspeak; there's no English version. |  |
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Ryū ga Gotoku Kenzan! | Beat 'Em Up/Being a Yarou | Take Yakuza, replace "Japanese gangsters" with "Japanese gangster samurai from the Sengoku period", and there ya go. Unfortunately, this entry didn't get a western release, so go learn moonrunes. |  |
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Wangan Midnight | Racing | I LOVE MY WANGAN. Highway raecan based on the original manga/arcade games. |  |