I'm visiting Japan for my first time out of the states, and I've already seen the light with their transportation, but another big thing for me has been their arcade scene.
So far what I've seen / played in the arcades around Tokyo are
1.) Fate:GO Arcade is actually everywhere
2.) Ship waifu game is also everywhere
3.) A lot of UFO machines that seem to actually use strategy (won a few figures)
4). Lotta FG games
5.) SAVE DATA!
I want to highlight that last part an first 2 parts, so if anyone doesn't know what Fate: GO is, it's a mobile turn based RPG gacha game, the arcade version is largely the same, but battles are basically in a 3D arena and real time. It took awhile but I was able to set up a aime card so I could play the game, found out a few things
1) all my data is saved no matter what machine I use with this aime card.
2) the machine dispenses cards (first one is free others are $1 per)
3) these cards all have nfc save data on them and you use them to build decks to play the game, these cards can be leveled up and etc.
I played for a few hours and bought a few cards, which while not cheap, was a cool and oddly satisfying sense of progression that we just don't have here. No progression games, no FG games at bigger arcade chains, claw machines with uninteresting/broad prizes that seem lower in chance. Sadly I don't think we could ever get something like this here due to low foot traffic unlike Japan. I could see maybe Pokeman, Yu-Gi-Oh or MTG makinh a scaled down nfc version of their games and even then it would probably be restricted to a few stores.
My point is, Japanese arcades are dope and wish we could get something more like that in the US.
So far what I've seen / played in the arcades around Tokyo are
1.) Fate:GO Arcade is actually everywhere
2.) Ship waifu game is also everywhere
3.) A lot of UFO machines that seem to actually use strategy (won a few figures)
4). Lotta FG games
5.) SAVE DATA!
I want to highlight that last part an first 2 parts, so if anyone doesn't know what Fate: GO is, it's a mobile turn based RPG gacha game, the arcade version is largely the same, but battles are basically in a 3D arena and real time. It took awhile but I was able to set up a aime card so I could play the game, found out a few things
1) all my data is saved no matter what machine I use with this aime card.
2) the machine dispenses cards (first one is free others are $1 per)
3) these cards all have nfc save data on them and you use them to build decks to play the game, these cards can be leveled up and etc.
I played for a few hours and bought a few cards, which while not cheap, was a cool and oddly satisfying sense of progression that we just don't have here. No progression games, no FG games at bigger arcade chains, claw machines with uninteresting/broad prizes that seem lower in chance. Sadly I don't think we could ever get something like this here due to low foot traffic unlike Japan. I could see maybe Pokeman, Yu-Gi-Oh or MTG makinh a scaled down nfc version of their games and even then it would probably be restricted to a few stores.
My point is, Japanese arcades are dope and wish we could get something more like that in the US.
