PSN Japan: Kojima's Policenauts and other strategy titles now available

Posted May 14, 2008 at 7:07AM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: News, Games Tags: Konami, NEC, nectaris, North America, PlayStation Store, Sony

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With only a month to go before Hideo Kojima's latest installment in the Metal Gear Solid series goes live, gamers are already on the edge of their seats awaiting its arrival. Fortunately, Sony recently offered everyone a slight fix to their Kojima fixations with one of his older works available for download on the PlayStation Store.

First released on the NEC PC-9821 platform in 1994, Konami's Policenauts has a distinctly anime-styled interactive story title which features the story of an astronaut named Jonathan Ingram who returns after being presumed dead due to a failed space mission. Many twists and turns greet Ingram after his 25 year hiatus from society; inclusive of all the signs of a well-written Kojima script.

The original PlayStation version of the game is currently available on the PlayStation Store for ¥600 (US$ 5.70). In addition, two other titles were uploaded to the store today - strategy titles Docchimo Mechamecha Docchi Mecha! and Nectaris (a.k.a. Military Madness in North America). The two games are also available for download at the same price and can be found on both the PlayStation 3 and PC Store.

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# So if I download it from the Japanese store... — Joshua 2008-05-14 08:14

Can I change the language and subtitles to English or will I have to wait until it comes to the American PStore (if it does)? I've been wanting to play that game for a very long time and now have the chance to but, sadly enough, I don't know any Japanese. lol

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# ... — Silver-Tiger 2008-05-14 09:58

I wonder how you download games you have to pay for from a different region? As far as I know you can only download things for free. For the other things, you need a Japanese b

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# Fan translation — icemann 2008-05-14 21:40

Theres been a fan translation of that game in the works for QUITE some time now. Should be out in the next few months.

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# fan translation — Guest 2008-05-15 03:16

Yeah, i've been following this as well. I wonder how much of the "mature" content the fan translation and the official version will keep (Hopefully all of it :P).

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