12 Best Japanese Games for PS3

Pacific Warriors II: Dogfight is a Historical-themed, First-person and Third-person Flight Simulation with an emphasis on action elements developed by InterActive Vision White Eagle and published by Fantastic.TV. The game mainly revolves around arcade genre and it takes place in the Pacific campaign during the WWII. In the game, the player selects between a series of WWII-era battle and bomber planes on both the Japanese and US side. There are over twenty-five challenging missions available for each side and the player takes to an upgrade screen, after describing the mission’s details. The player can purchase the upgrades for his planes, ranging from weapons to improved handling. During the task, the player is capable of switching the aircraft type by landing on the individual airfields. The player navigates the environment from either a first-person perspective or a third-person viewpoint. As the game proceeds, it becomes challenging to play and further challenging missions will be unlocked to enjoy. With superb mechanics, stunning visuals, and wonderful graphics, Pacific Warriors II: Dogfight is an amazing game to experience the flight simulation.

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II focuses on Role-playing genre developed and published by Nihon Falcom. The game supports Single-player mode only and it takes place in the fantasy-based setting. It offers the similar gameplay to the original game Trails of Cold Steel, revolving around traditional Japanese Role-playing (JRPG) elements with Turn-based rules. It acts as the title in the series of The Legend of Heroes, and introducing enhanced mechanics, gameplay, and graphics. The story revolves around the protagonist named as Rean, who escapes with Valimar and Divine Knight. As the story advances, the princess Alfin Reise has been abducted along with the sister of the protagonist named as Elise, who is the member of Noble Alliance. Now, the player as the protagonist must explore the land from a third-person perspective, battle against enemies in turn-based system, and take down them to save the princess and his sister. The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II is the best game to play and enjoy for those, who love playing JRPGs.

Persona 2: Eternal Punishment is a Japanese, Role-playing and Single-player video game developed and published by Atlus. It is the third title in the series of Persona game and takes place in the fictional Japanese City called Sumaru. The story centers on the female protagonist named as Maya Amamo, as she investigates the Joker Curse, where the rumors and wishes of the people are coming true and becoming a reason for chaos. During the investigation, the protagonist her other companions, who join her to gain the super abilities to Persona. It features turn-based combat element, where the protagonist uses her Personas in the fight against demons to kill them. There are a variety of quests available, and the player must explore the environment from an isometric perspective, interact with non-player characters and struggle to complete the quests to restore the peace to the fictional land and save the people from the worst of a demon. Persona 2: Eternal Punishment offers prominent features, addictive gameplay, detailed environment, and smooth controls. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

Tales of Symphonia Chronicles is a Role-playing, Single and Multiplayer video game produced and published by Namco Tales Studio. The game offers a chance to you to experience the complete Tales of Symphonia adventure like never before. The series has been re-mastered with improved graphics, new content and a dual track including both Japanese and English voices. It takes place in the fictional land called Sylvarant and revolves around Lloyd Irving. The protagonist accompanies with his childhood fellow named Colette Brunel, who is ready to go on an epic adventure to save their worlds. Like original series, the game contains three major areas such as a battle screen, a dungeon and town map and world field map. The primary objective of the player is to explore the world, interact with NPCs, and fight against monsters and other creatures to earn experience points that can be used to unlock further content in the game. As the game progresses, the player learns new abilities and skills, and unlock further areas, and characters to play. Tales of Symphonia Chronicles is the best game as compared to other Role-playing games.

Okami HD is an Action-Adventure and Single-player video game developed by TBC and published by Capcom U.S.A. Inc. The game takes place in the beautiful world threatened by dark forces. The story takes place in the Japanese history and mixes several legends, myths and folklore to tell an exciting story of how the world was rescued from evil forces by Amaterasu, a goddess who took the form of a white wolf. In the game, you can assume the role of a protagonist named as Amaterasu, and immerse yourself in the gameplay contains Puzzle, Platform, and Action elements. The game has a variety of levels that you have to complete to progress through the match. Explore the environment from a third-person perspective, fight against dark forces to restore the land to bring back peace and save your people from becoming the hero. As the game proceed, it becomes challenging, and you may face ambitious objectives. With prominent gameplay, excellent mechanics, cool features and incredible graphics, Okami HD is the best game to play and enjoy.

Battlefield 1943 is an Action-Adventure, Open World, First-person Shooter, and Multiplayer video game created by EA Dice and published by Electronic Arts. The game focuses on World War II and offers Massively Multiplayer Online elements. It takes place in the Pacific Theater of Operation and centers on two different factions such as the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and the United States Marine Corps with up to twenty-four playable characters. There are three different maps available such as Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, and Wake Island. The game allows the player to select his character and dive into the world where he has to fight against enemies using an arsenal of weapons and take down them. An additional Coral Sea map will be unlocked, as the player kills forty-three million enemies. The game offers the similar gameplay to Battlefield Heroes and introduces a variety of vehicles such as tank, airplane, speedboat and more. There are a variety of missions, and each mission needs a completion of certain objectives to progress. With enhanced mechanics, addictive gameplay, and brilliant controls, Battlefield 1943 is the best game to play and enjoy.

Tales of Xillia 2 is an Action Role-playing, Single and Multiplayer video game created and published by Bandai Namco Studios. It is the 14th marvelous title in the series of Tales game and takes place after Takes of Xillia. The game revolves around the Japanese Role-playing elements and cast the player into the role of the protagonist named Ludger Will Kresnik, who can destroy and infiltrate parallel dimensions. A traditional organization hires the protagonist to destroy the dimension to maintain the world in balance. There are two huge areas such as the battle screen and the field map. The game lets the player get into the protagonist’s role, manipulate the world, interact with NPCs, items, and avatars to progress through the match. The player can explore the world from a third-person perspective, fight against enemies who wants to destroy the world by disturbing its balance. The protagonist is capable of running, walking, jumping and combating against villains. As the game proceed, other features will be unlocked. With prominent features, exciting gameplay, 3D environment, exploration, smooth controls, and beautiful sounds, Tales of Xillia 2 is the best game to play.

Who isn’t familiar with the names of Legendary Characters of Ken, Ryu, Chun Li, Blanka, and Dhalsim from the Legendary Street Fighter video games. Almost everybody have played a game from this fantastic series and the ones who have played any Street Fighter games, are fans for life. Talking about the Street Fighter video game, Street Fighter is a 1987’s fantastic hit Fighting Video game developed and published by the Legendary Japanese video game company Capcom. The game is very first installment of the globally popular video game series “Street Fighter” and it is available to play on PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo and various other gaming consoles. Street Fighter offers characters from various locations of the world such as Japan, U.S. China, Canada, Thailand and Brazil, etc. Throughout the game, Street Fighter offers a highly competitive and challenging gameplay in which it allows two players to fight against each other, blast the opponents with fantastic combinations of attacks and whoever depletes the opponent’s health bar, wins the game. It allows the players to play the game against each other or with the Game AI (Artificial Intelligence), keep on defeating the opponents and after winning, move to next round of the game. Just like the fighter characters, Street Fighter offers competitive matches on various locations of the game world and allows the players to defeat the opponents and enjoy the game. With a variety of characters, and their special fighting abilities, fighting styles and all the blasting action and thrill, Street Fighter is one of the best ever Fighting games till date and is known as the trend setter for this particular genre.

Tales of Zestiria is a brand new Open World Action-Adventure and Japanese RPG video game that offers both Single and Multiplayer gaming modes. The game is set in medieval era and the story revolves around the character of a young man named as Sorey who possesses the mystical powers of Seraphim and acts as the only stabilizing force in the massive land of Glenwood. The game tasks you to get into the character of Sorey, travel and explore the land of Glenwood in order to save it from the Hellion, unearthly creatures with immense abilities of destruction. The basic objective of the game is to end the long raging war between the two eternal enemies, saving the world and reuniting the Humans with the Seraphim. With a bunch of heroes like yourself, you’ll have to explore the world, eliminate the enemies and end the war to save Glenwood. Tales of Zestiria offers immensely huge environments, amazing adventures, epic battles with the fearsome enemy legends, brilliant visuals and an immersive game-play to enjoy.

Resonance of Fate, developed by a Japanese gaming company Tri-Ace and published by Sega is an Action-Adventure and Role Playing Game developed for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 gaming platforms. The game takes place in an apocalyptic era in which the earth is almost destroyed by an unknown phenomena. The phenomenon created layers of poisonous gasses in the upper atmosphere of earth and the population started to vanish due to cancer caused by the gasses. With the help of “Basel” (An environment purifying System) a great number of humans survived but the others mutated and started roaming in the lands prying and killing who ever crosses the Basel controlled area. The protagonist goes on a number of adventures and quests to save humans and kill the mutant monsters and while on missions, combats with the creatures with the weapons and other techniques. Resonance of Fate is an amazingly engaging and quite addictive game that bases on a really great storyline and a number of characters with unique and new abilities. Try Resonance of Fate if you want to experience an amazing amalgamation of action-adventure and MMORPG elements. You’ll like it for sure.

Okami, developed by Clover Studio, Ready at Dawn and Hexa Drive and published by Capcom is an Action-Adventure, RPG and Fantasy game released for PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 and Wii gaming platforms. The game thrives in the history of Japan and bases on many Japanese mythologies and legends. The story of the game tells us about a heavenly entity named Amaterasu who descends to earth and saves it from the darkness. It changes its appearance into a wolf and roams the land, kills all the hostile creatures and removes the dark spells and nourishes the land. Okami features an amazing game-play that resembles the one in Zelda, a super engaging and involving story, woodcut (Water color styled) 3D graphics and an open world. Having a close resemblance to Zelda this game is a wonderful piece of art and it will surely entertain you a lot.

Samurai Warriors is an Action-packed, Hack-and-Slash, Single-player and Multiplayer video game developed by Omega Force and published by Koei. The title acts as the first installment in the series of Samurai Warriors and offers exciting gameplay loosely based the Sengoku period of Japanese history. In the game, the player assumes the role of the officer in the fight with an epic goal to stop the waves of enemies and defeat their commander to conquer the battlefield. During the fight, the player uses a range of crowd-clearing special moves and combo attacks called Musou attacks. By defeating the enemies, the character of the player gains new weapons and level. The player can perform Musou attack when the gauge is full. Each character in the game has its unique abilities and personality while equipping with five items. The game introducing the new ranking system depends on five categories such as Amount of Experience, Time, Missions, Number of defeated Enemies, and Total Numbers of killed Enemies. Samurai Warriors is the wonderful game to enjoy and play.