2024 HAUL - JUNE CHAPTER: BATCH #4
Back to work this week which was a bit messy but I have two items to wrap up this month's haul.
A surprise release in recent months is a 4K Ultra HD release for Bong Joon-ho's 2003 film
Memories of Murder (살인의 추억), which is a film I've been wanting to watch for years. Curzon released a double film pack on Blu-ray a few years back with
Barking Dogs Never Bite but it was bare bones compared to the Criterion release over in North America so I never bothered to pick it up. This 4K release does include the bonus features this time around and price-wise was decent but the packaging could have been better.
Wrapping up the month of June's haul is the Asian English physical release for
Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition, the remaster of the PlayStation 1 JRPG game, on Nintendo Switch. I've played
Chrono Trigger but never managed to finish it surprisingly but I have heard how this successor was liked but also divisive in a way, probably because it wasn't like the predecessor.
Square Enix remastered the game and brought it to modern platforms in 2022, bundling in the 1996 Satellaview exclusive
Radical Dreamers visual novel in English for the first time. When the game initially came out, it wasn't well received in terms of the remastered treatment as there were a number of issues including performance.
About a year later they finally patched the game and it's a much better experience (though the Nintendo Switch version does still have a 30fps cap on the final portion of the game). Regardless, only the Nintendo Switch version received a physical English release (only in Asia) and despite the issue I mentioned the Switch version was mentioned to be just as good as the other platforms so I decided to go for the Switch release. I had been meaning to pick up the physical version for a while but once again I found a copy through eBay for a really good price and went for it.