Atlus lovers, head to Amazon

by Chris Greenhough { Jul 8th 2008 at 8:00PM }

We've already established that having the Atlus name on the front of a box is usually A Very Good Thing, and look! Somebody at Amazon must clearly have been listening to us, as the uber-retailer has the following Atlus-published titles up for sale:

Rondo of Swords -- $19.99
Draglade -- $13.39
Ontamarama -- $10.04
Contact -- $23.44
Touch Detective 2 1/2 -- $9.99

That's not all -- while we were scrounging though Amazon's bargain basement section, we found a couple of other potentially worthy additions to your DS library:

Children of Mana -- $20.09
Viewtiful Joe: Double Trouble -- $10.04

You can also get Ping Pals for $4.29. But like that deserves a functioning link.

Gallery: Rondo of Swords (Atlus)

Tags: adventure, amazon, atlus, beeworks, capcom, children-of-mana, clover, contact, dimps, draglade, fighting, grasshopper-manufacture, noise-factory, ontamarama, ping-pals, rhythm, rondo-of-swords, rpg, square-enix, success, touch-detective-2-12, viewtiful-joe

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Sam @ Jul 8th 2008 8:03PM

Or you could get ASH at play-asia for $10

aj @ Jul 8th 2008 9:52PM

I can't read Japanese.

I should really try to learn Japanese. I'd have access to a lot more games. I wonder if a university offers a "Japanese for Gamers" course......

aj @ Jul 8th 2008 9:51PM

I was excited, then read "Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses."

What the crap?

Red @ Jul 8th 2008 10:24PM

Amazon's usually like that. Shipping only to places within its domain name, that is: I've tortured myself many a time by going to Amazon.jp and seeing the stuff they have that I can't get.

aj @ Jul 8th 2008 10:55PM

Yeah, but shipping from the US to Canada is a whole different matter from shipping Japan or Europe and North America.

aj @ Jul 8th 2008 10:55PM

Yeah, but shipping from the US to Canada is a whole different matter from shipping Japan or Europe and North America.

Red @ Jul 8th 2008 11:01PM

I didn't say it was logical or sensible, just that there's precedent for Amazon to have region-specific websites for whatever reason.

BPM [MKWii: 2578 3585 8392] @ Jul 9th 2008 1:05AM

I believe the reason they can't ship games to Canada is because (for the most part) they're English only, and Canadian games need to be billingual English/French.

So, in other words... blame Quebec.

aj @ Jul 9th 2008 1:46AM

I do not believe this is true, as I have bought many games with packaging in English only.

I do, oddly enough, have a copy of Star Ocean: Till The End of Time with the packaging and discs completely in French, but the game is still in English. Which is weirder still.

However, while the packages of games do tend to be in both English and French, and the manuals as well, games are still in English. Which also makes no sense. Playing the games requires that you speak English, so why bother printing the manuals and packaging in both languages?

Can anyone in Quebec enlighten me as to how easy it is to get games in French? Or do you have to import them? (And to my American friends - don't be fooled, we don't all speak two languages up here. There are French communities and there are English communities. Where I live [Alberta] there are actually large numbers of Polish and Ukrainian speakers, more so than French, I believe. BC has a lot more Chinese speakers, as well. Canada is a rich tapestry of confusion and mistrust.)