This Week’s PlayStation Sales Include Japanese And Japan Inspired Games

Sony is hav­ing a PlaySta­tion sale for Gold­en Week that includes Japan­ese and Japan inspired games. Exact per­cent off for each title varies, but can go up to 80% with PlaySta­tion Plus.  The full list of games on sale can be seen at the bot­tom of the arti­cle or here.

Among the PS4 games I can rec­om­mend both Grav­i­ty Rush games, Galak‑Z, and NieR: Automata.

Grav­i­ty Rush start­ed as a PS Vita game, but was lat­er port­ed to PS4. Its unique mechan­ic is con­trol­ling grav­i­ty to fly, attack, and throw objects. Grav­i­ty 2 improves on most aspects of the first game and is rel­a­tive­ly new so anoth­er sale is unlike­ly. Sto­ry wise the game are a bit sim­ple, but has an inter­est­ing set­ting and char­ac­ters that you’ll want to see more of. A bit of warn­ing those who get motion sick eas­i­ly should check out game­play before buying.

Galak‑Z is a top down arcade dog-fight­ing game with an 80’s ani­me theme. Lev­els are ran­dom­ized and pre­sent­ed as an episode of a sci-fi ani­me. Game­play con­sist most­ly of shoot­ing var­i­ous ene­my ships and the occa­sion­al space bug. Upgrades that change bul­let prop­er­ties can also be found in lev­els and bought in shops. There is also the abil­i­ty to trans­form into a mech that can use strong melee attacks. Over­all the game is one that you can play in short burst or come back to whenever. 

NieR: Automa­ta is an action RPG from Plat­inum Games and Yoko Toro. It com­bines hack and slash com­bat, bul­let hell pro­jec­tiles, and top down arcade shoot­ing. While that may sound like it could be con­fus­ing, the game actu­al­ly intro­duces these ele­ments fair­ly smooth­ly. It also pro­vides greater con­trol over game dif­fi­cul­ty by hav­ing an over­all dif­fi­cul­ty set­ting and in-game items that give sup­port play­ers or allow cer­tain actions to be per­formed auto­mat­i­cal­ly. The sto­ry has also been praised by many for touch­ing play­ers and explor­ing philo­soph­i­cal ideas thor­ough­ly.  If you’re still on the fence, we have reviewed the game in greater detail.