Wed, 26th Jan 2011 | Posted by Al
Hi,
For those of you who’ve been trapped in a cave for the last several years, Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 Portable (or SMT: P3P, or just P3P to its friends) is not only a landmark J-RPG, but it’s also one of the all-time great games on any format.
But don’t take my word for it! This is borne out by the mighty, industry-encompassing Metacritic. To save you digging, here’s some relevant data for all you stats fans out there (and hey, if you’re reading a post about a Shin Megami Tensei game, you’re invariably a stats fan of some kind!).
Ready? Here goes:
With a metarating of 91 per cent, P3P shares 1st place as the best PSP game of all time with fellow #1 place holder, God of War: Chains of Olympus. When you consider the far broader market for GoW: CoO, this is no mean feat!
P3P is listed on Metacritic inside the top 3 per cent of games on all formats ever, ever, ever. Kind of puts things in perspective... :D When you consider that Metacritic lists around 7800 games in total, that’s pretty impressive.
Finally, to put that 91% metarating in perspective, here’s a list of other notable ‘91ers’ from recent months across all formats (in alphabetical order):
- Assassin's Creed 2
- Batman: Arkham Asylum
- Crysis
- Dead Space 2
- Dragon Age: Origins
- Halo: Reach
- Little Big Planet 2
- Mario Kart DS
- Metroid Prime Trilogy
- Peggle
- Shadow of the Colossus
- Super Meat Boy
- Super Streetfighter IV
Now that’s not a bad list of alumni to share critical space with! Indeed, some of my personal all-time favourites are among them (I <3 U Super Street Fighter IV, get over here Super Meat Boy!)
So, if you haven’t got the message yet, P3P is AWESOME!!!, and soon you’ll be able to buy it right here, courtesy of your friendly neighbourhood Ghostlight.
On that note, there should be more news on pre-ordering and Collector’s Edition stuff soon.
Byeeeee! :)
Al
Mon, 10th Jan 2011 | Posted by Al
Hi all,
First up, Happy New Year!
We're back from the Christmas holidays with a bang, so lets get straight to our first announcement, and it's a goodie: we're happy to announce that Idea Factory's awesome S-RPG 'Spectral Souls: Resurrection of the Ethereal Empires' (PSP) will be available to buy from the PSN store on 26th January 2011. To support the release we also have a dedicated 'SS:RotEE' website, giving more details about the game. Go and check it out! :)
Right, now on to the BIG news for the early part of 2011. As some people have already speculated via an erroneous product entry on a major games retailers website, we will be releasing the seminal 'Persona 3 Portable' for PSP in 2011! Funnily enough at that time we were only in early discussions with Atlus; not a contract in sight. However, all that aside, we've been lucky enough to secure 'P3P' for a European release since then, which is a happy coincidence! :) Still, the extra activity online certainly hasn't hurt, so thanks for all the enquiries we've had. Anyhow, we're now in a position to confirm that YES; WE ARE DOING THE GAME!
Details aren't totally fleshed out yet, but we can confirm that, for the collectors out there, there will be a boxed version including some 'Collector's Edition' - type goodies for you to obsess over! ;) And - for the environmentally conscious among you - we'll also be releasing a PSN download version. When we have more firm news you'll find it here first.
As quite a few of you e-mail us with your ideas for games you would like us to bring to the European market, and ask questions on the products we already have for sale, we're also aiming to publish a Ghostlight blog in the very near future. This way it'll be easier for us to manage your questions and get you more info, more quickly. So, once the blog has been born, be sure to sign up to the RSS feed.
In the meantime, to keep up to date with all things Ghostlight related, please check back here regularly. Also, don't forget we have Twitter and Facebook pages where smaller pieces of info are leaked every now and then.
So, 'til the next instalment of J-RPG goodness; happy gaming!
The Ghostlight Team
Tue, 2nd Nov 2010 | Posted by Al
Hot off the back of last week's news about us signing Agarest Senki Zero on PS3, here's another awesome reveal: we've also secured SCEE-territory publication rights to two more of Idea Factory's excellent games; Generation of Chaos V and Spectral Souls II on PSP.
These two powerhouses of J-SRPG (that's "Japanese Strategy-Role Playing game" for acronym haters) goodness are heading towards the SCEE PSN Store in the near future. Both games are currently planned to be released via download only.
More news on both games will be released as and when we have it, including more details on the game content, unique features and planned release dates and price points.
For more news on these strategy role-playing gems, keep checking Ghostlight's Twitter and Facebook pages, as well as the website, for further announcements.