New Game Releases: March 30th-April 4th, 2017

Originally slated for a Valentine’s Day release, Persona 5 finally makes it’s stateside debut this week, arriving in four different SKUs. While PlayStation 3 owners get a single edition, PS4 players have a trio of options, with a standard version, steel book, and the “Take Your Heart” edition which includes the aforementioned study case, a soundtrack CD, 4″ Morgana plush, 64-page art book and school bag.

Header image: Persona 5, PlaySation 3 and 4.

PlayStation 3
Persona 5 (retail and PSN, $49.99)

PlayStation 4
Drawn to Death (PSN, 19.99, free for PS+)
Persona 5 (retail and PSN, $59.99)
Persona 5: SteelBook Edition (retail, $59.99)
Persona 5: “Take Your Heart” Premium Edition (retail, $89.99)

Nintendo Switch
ACA NeoGeo Metal Slug (eShop, $7.99)
Lego City Undercover (retail and eShop, $59.99)

Wii U
Cube Life: Pixel Action Heroes ($6.99)
Miko Mole ($5.00)
Pikmin 2 (eShop, $19.99)

Xbox One
Thimbleweed Park ($TBA)

3DS
Brave Dungeon (eShop, $5.00)
Four Bombs (eShop, $1.49)
Kung Fu Fight (eShop, $1.99)
SubaraCity (eShop, $3.99)

PC
Antihero ($11.99)
Ballistic Overkill ($11.99)
Battleship Bishojo ($11.69)
Beat Cop ($13.49)
Dick Wilde ($16.99)
Guns of Icarus Alliance ($17.99)
Miniature Garden ($TBA)
Nightstar: Rogue Wings ($8.99)
On the Road ($14.99)
PacaPlus ($TBA)
Swarm Universe ($11.99)
Thimbleweed Park ($TBA)
Virtual Sports ($16.99)

Robert’s Pick: While some might consider Japanese role-playing games a niche genre, Atlus’ Megami Tensei series has been the outlier, attracting a growing audience with each successive iteration. With a context in modern-day Tokyo, anime cutscenes produced by Production I.G., and a theme about not quite fitting in, Persona 5 represents everything I enjoy about JRPGs.

About Robert Allen

Since being a toddler, Robert Allen has been immersed in video games, anime, and tokusatsu. Currently, his days are spent teaching at two southern California colleges. But his evenings and weekends are filled with STGs, RPGs, and action titles and well at writing for Tech-Gaming since 2007.

7 comments

  1. Yep, P5 for me. Been waiting forever for the game.

  2. “Dick Wilde”, huh? That’s an interesting name!

  3. No surprise for your pick this week.

  4. The regular edition of Persona 5 only comes out after the steelbook launch version has been sold out.

  5. Will you be reviewing P5 this week?

  6. Persona 5 this week. I’ve been waiting for months to play the game.