2023 HAUL VER 9.1
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Three packages arrived today!
Starting off the month we have two more Anime Limited collector's edition Blu-ray releases. First up we have Ayumu Watanabe & Studio 4°C's
Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko. The two worked together on Children of the Sea which I really enjoyed so I am curious to see how this one fares as it's more family focused and lighthearted compared to the fantasy and darker tone of the previous one.
Also arrived is
JUNK HEAD, a stop-motion anime film by Takahide Hori. This is a film that he's spent 7 years working on even as early as 2013 with his short film that this is based on. The Blu-ray by Anime Limited also features a 1 hour making of featurette and the booklet has an article written by Jonathan Clements.
And here we have something completely different, well depending on how you see it. Last month I started to buy a few games from Limited Run Games through VideoGamesPlus because it was a second chance to get a lot of the games that were either something that I was interested in or would be one that I would like to own one day. Since then I have gone a bit overboard with roughly 13 Limited Run Games either arrived, purchased or shipped out already.
Here we have
Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition, a 1997 point and click adventure game that originated on PC by Westwood Studios and was remastered by Nightdive Studios for Nintendo Switch as well as other platforms. Due to the title being retro and worked on by Nightdive (known for their efforts on remastering DOOM 64, Quake, Turok and developed the well-received System Shock remake), I decided this would be a great suit for this platform. Now the game does have some issues in its remaster but from what I have read the original code was lost but the original style is available as an option.
This game did appear in the August batch on Video Games Plus but I didn't decide on looking into this game until the past two weeks, and the game had sold out fairly early on which is fair play. I was rather fortunate to find a copy on eBay which was expensive but nowhere near as bad as Turok and other LRG titles.