GIZORAMA - Atlus is really good at bringing Japanese niche titles to western audiences. AquaPazza: Aquaplus Dream Match, a 2011 arcade fighting game developed by Examu, is the definition of niche titles. Aquapazza features 26 characters in a mashup of various Aquaplus manga and anime titles such as Tears to Tiara, To Heart, and Utawarerumono. These titles are obscure to all but the hardcore anime fans in the western audiences. Fanservice tends to carry crossover mashups but without that familiarity AquaPazza loses that pizzazz that would allow it to be anything but niche.
Play: "Everyone know about Street Fighter, Tekken and company, but what about alternative fightings games that don't get so much love?"
An updated list of discounted game codes on Amazon features AquaPazza dropping by 67% to 9.99, Catherine by 35% to $12.99, Persona 2: Eternal Punishment by 50% to $4.99 and more.
It's the publishers who decide the sales, not the distributors. So when a publisher puts a game on sale, it's on sale (or should be) through EVERY retailer.
This is why you can walk into a Gamestop, for example, and see a new copy of a game selling for less than a used copy--because the Publisher sets the price for the former, and the retailer for the latter.
"Let's talk about AquaPazza (or, more accurately, AquaPazza: AquaPlus Dream Match). It's a fast paced, frenetic fighting game that is apparently a massive hit in Japanese arcades, featuring an all star roster of some apparently popular anime and visual novel characters."
