2024 HAUL - AUGUST CHAPTER: BATCH #2
After almost a week of no new arrivals, one package turned up on Friday. Meanwhile today I also took a trip to town.
Back in January I pre-ordered two Switch games from Limited Run Games' online store and they had an estimated release window for August 1-31. Surprisingly they actually arrived on time and since I paid VAT upfront there's no customs which is handy.
Starting with Cosmic Fantasy Collection, the first in a new remastered collection by Edia, consisting of 1990's Cosmic Fantasy and 1991's Cosmic Fantasy 2. Both originated from the PC Engine CD and only the second game was previously released in English. This is an RPG that I actually discovered through YouTuber HappyConsoleGamer so I wanted to pick it up since we don't see many from the genre released for this console readily available these days. A second collection is coming soon that covers the third and fourth games in the franchise.
Next we have Toaplan Arcade Garage: Kyukyoku Tiger-Heli, a classic shoot 'em up collection dedicated to the Tiger-Heli games released back in the Arcade by Toaplan with this release worked on by M2 ShotTriggers. This collection includes 1989's Kyukyoku Tiger (Famicom, PC Engine & 1991's Mega Drive versions), 1989's Twin Cobra (NES & 1991's Genesis versions), 1986's Tiger-Heli (Famicom & 1987's NES versions) and 1986's Get Star (plus the western version Guardian). Surprisingly it also includes 1991's arcade puzzle game Teki Paki which displays as a separate game when you put the Switch cartridge on the device.
After watching Alien: Romulus, I visited the GAME store that was nearby and wasn't expecting much given they ditched the pre-owned section and most of the stuff on their stores these days is just pointless trash. But to my surprise, they have some discounts available for a few of the games on offer and these included Persona 5 Royal and Persona 5 Tactica for £11.99 each.
Now I did pre-order the PS4 Steelbook version for Persona 5 Royal but I never bothered to play it given it is a long game after all, but the PS5 version has some slight performance improvements so I figured given its cheap I'll pick it up. Meanwhile Persona 5 Tactica is their tactical RPG spin-off and surprisingly no one is talking about it, it just came out and that was it, so the fact that its cheap is an opportunity for me to pick it up in case it goes up in value.
Once again I visited the Travelling Man store in town and they finally had JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind Volume 6 in stock so with that picked up I have now completed the series. But since its a 3 for 2 deal I needed some more books to make it worthwhile so I also picked up both Fist of the North Star Volume 5 (which finally had a condition that didn't look dented) and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean Volume 2.
After almost a week of no new arrivals, one package turned up on Friday. Meanwhile today I also took a trip to town.
Back in January I pre-ordered two Switch games from Limited Run Games' online store and they had an estimated release window for August 1-31. Surprisingly they actually arrived on time and since I paid VAT upfront there's no customs which is handy.
Starting with Cosmic Fantasy Collection, the first in a new remastered collection by Edia, consisting of 1990's Cosmic Fantasy and 1991's Cosmic Fantasy 2. Both originated from the PC Engine CD and only the second game was previously released in English. This is an RPG that I actually discovered through YouTuber HappyConsoleGamer so I wanted to pick it up since we don't see many from the genre released for this console readily available these days. A second collection is coming soon that covers the third and fourth games in the franchise.
Next we have Toaplan Arcade Garage: Kyukyoku Tiger-Heli, a classic shoot 'em up collection dedicated to the Tiger-Heli games released back in the Arcade by Toaplan with this release worked on by M2 ShotTriggers. This collection includes 1989's Kyukyoku Tiger (Famicom, PC Engine & 1991's Mega Drive versions), 1989's Twin Cobra (NES & 1991's Genesis versions), 1986's Tiger-Heli (Famicom & 1987's NES versions) and 1986's Get Star (plus the western version Guardian). Surprisingly it also includes 1991's arcade puzzle game Teki Paki which displays as a separate game when you put the Switch cartridge on the device.
After watching Alien: Romulus, I visited the GAME store that was nearby and wasn't expecting much given they ditched the pre-owned section and most of the stuff on their stores these days is just pointless trash. But to my surprise, they have some discounts available for a few of the games on offer and these included Persona 5 Royal and Persona 5 Tactica for £11.99 each.
Now I did pre-order the PS4 Steelbook version for Persona 5 Royal but I never bothered to play it given it is a long game after all, but the PS5 version has some slight performance improvements so I figured given its cheap I'll pick it up. Meanwhile Persona 5 Tactica is their tactical RPG spin-off and surprisingly no one is talking about it, it just came out and that was it, so the fact that its cheap is an opportunity for me to pick it up in case it goes up in value.
Once again I visited the Travelling Man store in town and they finally had JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind Volume 6 in stock so with that picked up I have now completed the series. But since its a 3 for 2 deal I needed some more books to make it worthwhile so I also picked up both Fist of the North Star Volume 5 (which finally had a condition that didn't look dented) and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean Volume 2.
