Publisher eastasiasoft has announced that it'll be launching a brand new physical edition of Sense - A Cyberpunk Ghost Story for Nintendo Switch, with pre-orders opening later this week.
The studio will launch this special new release in partnership with developers Suzaku Games and Top Hat Studio. It'll go up for pre-order over at Playasia on Thursday 14th January at 10am ET / 3pm GMT and will be limited to just 2,000 copies – for any PlayStation Vita owners, there'll also be 800 copies available for Sony's portable system.
This physical edition will include a copy of the game, a manual, a certificate, and a copy of the game's soundtrack; on Twitter, eastasiasoft has told fans that the release is different to the physical edition designed for Kickstarter backers.
Earlier this month, developer Top Hat Studios issued a couple of statements regarding calls to censor the game. According to the studio's messages, Top Hat has received threats from players who plan to review-bomb the title and harass its distributors.
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Im tempted to buy this just because the devloper refuses to bend the knee.
Low scores on metacritic from critics, higher from users... not sure if they’re legit though.
Is this game worth a physical release...?
https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/sense-a-cyberpunk-ghost-story/user-reviews
Wow, the Vita is still a thing. It’s tempting to get it for Sony’s handheld.
Looks like it has a big plot
@Gaming365247 I can be wrong, but it really feels to me as if that was a publicity stunt. A few days before release...
@Friendly
When the first two reviews say they havent finished the game says to me user review scores are worthless
For clarification, it's only the limited collector's edition for the Switch that's limited to 2000 pieces.
They appear to be doing a standard release that is not limited, or at least, open pre-order.
https://www.play-asia.com/sense-a-cyberpunk-ghost-story/13/70e2j7
@Friendly
It was probably both. You do legitimately get a lot of abuse online for doing or saying anything vaguely controversial. Death threats are basically guaranteed.
But at the same time, you can mostly just ignore it if you want to. People who choose not to are often, but not always, just trying to exploit the situation to increase their own reputation.
@PrincessAzunyan
Hi gaslighting person. You are right, it is never a problem even though we live in a world where SONY CENSORS games of this type. Nintendo totally never did anything like this before except when they did to Fatal Frame 5.
Totally not a real problem because censorship doesn't exist...Unless it involves big tits then it's not really censorship, it's making things "diverse and inclusive". Ya fool.
@Friendly When I look at professional critics' reviews, I tend to ignore the score but pay attention to what they actually say about the game*. Three reviews isn't much to go on, but two of the specifically mention unintuitive puzzles, which is worrying.
I’m assuming this will be awful given the blatant attention grab last week. I’d put money on it.
That said, there seems to be a strong relationship with NL so I’m betting we won’t see a review for a while if it IS bad. I’m ready to stand corrected.
Actually downloaded it and is on my backlog at the moment
EastasiaSoft do a lot of physical releases so thought this was coming, actually thought it was already announced.
Sad to see some people think what happened to them was an 'attention grab' when what happened to them is becoming disturbingly common these days no matter what they're doing.
They responded to the accusations of clout gathering with five pages of tweets filled with vitriol and slander proving that the hate they received was real.
https://twitter.com/TopHatStudiosEN/status/1345503707203571716
I'd like to maintain a complete P-A Switch collection, but why pick this game for a physical release? Why not Cursed Castilla, Bleed 1 & 2, or Severed?
Forgetting all the 'controversy', at the end of the day this game just looks rubbish to me.
Won't be getting my hard earned.
@PoundShopOrwell
Any previous examples of NL holding back reviews of badly received games because of a "strong relationship" out of curiosity?
Saw a video review of the game and it just looks bland.
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