

ZHP had a physical release on UMD back in the day, but it’s become very hard to find English copies of this these days. At the same time, you’ll have to contend with your character developing phobias of monsters and traps that previously defeated them - life isn’t easy for a superhero in training! ZHP provides an interesting take on the roguelike genre’s iconic “permadeath” feature by resetting your character to level 1 every time you start delving into a new dungeon - but between expeditions you can apply various modifications to make your base statistics better than they were at the beginning of the game. One of Nippon Ichi Software’s most frequently overlooked games, ZHP (as we shall refer to it for short) is a wonderful take on the roguelike, combining turn-based dungeon exploration with Disgaea-style progression mechanics.


So here’s five of the best that you might want to pick up before Friday, just in case the very worst happens! ZHP: Unlosing Ranger vs.

Notably, the statement “PSP commerce functionality will retire” doesn’t make it at all clear if you’ll still be able to purchase PSP games on PlayStation Vita or through the PlayStation 3 storefront - the latter option allows you to download PSP games to your PS3, then transfer them to a PSP via USB - or if it simply means PSP games will stop being available altogether.Īssuming the worst - that PSP games will no longer be available for download at all on any platform whatsoever - there are a whole bunch of games that didn’t get physical releases (or for which physical releases are prohibitively rare or expensive) which will no longer be accessible after Jthis coming Friday. The trouble with this statement is that its use of weasel words doesn’t make it clear if the store is closing down completely, if you just won’t be able to buy PSP games any more or something else altogether. The PS3 and Vita storefronts would remain active, said Sony bossman Jim Ryan, but, in his words, “PSP commerce functionality will retire on Jas planned”. They offered - or, more accurately, told us we were going to have to deal with - a compromise.
