Mana Khemia: Student Alliance Review
I love NIS America, I really do. That they try so damned hard to fill a niche that a very select few other publishers even dare tackle is admirable -- commendable, even -- but while a cursory glance would make it seem like Atlus finally has a friend in the import business, the chasm in quality of releases between the two publishers is becoming ever greater with each successive release NISA pumps out. Oh, their own internally-developed titles like the recent Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero? or the Disgaea series get fantastic localizations (the PSP port of the first Disgaea was, at the very least, dead even with the PS2 original and some might say, thanks to the new content, even better ), but it seems like the other stuff -- in particular Gust's RPGs -- are getting second-hand treatment at best. NISA's PSP efforts have been even more spotty. A string of Idea Factory-developed ports were, at turns, absolute abominations, slightly improved and almost passable, but with the por