What did you RECEIVE today? PHOTOS EDITION!

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Actually it was. I bought it from Amazon.it in a recent buy any three Warner titles and get 50% off. I bought two of the cheapest titles I could find and added the Nolan set. It worked out about £45 including shipping. The Nolan set has been out of stock since I bought it and if nearly given up getting it.

Oh, neat! Might have picked it up myself had I known.
 
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So I went to Leeds over the weekend and after talking with Irish Luke on Falcom games, he showed me an eBay listing for Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana which is on my list of games to get. My plan was to bid at the last second and then out of nowhere the bid price went from £21 (+ £2.50 Postage) to £53 (+ £2.50 Postage) in the matter of 30 seconds. Bloody hell.

Turns out it's rarer than I thought. Sold out across every retailer and not even the US have it in stock. You're only chance is to go to your local store and buy it at full price (or get the game digitally or wait for the Nintendo Switch version), so I bought it used in GAME for £39.99 because NIS America can sod off for how they have treated this game.

Just to give a TL;DR on what NIS have done to the game here's a list:
  • They supposedly (i.e. never officially confirmed but heavily rumoured) won the bid against XSEED for promising a PC release at launch and support for French translation. This was a massive backfire.
  • The French translation is abysmal and even the French text on the back cover doesn't actually translate to what the game is about. As of this post they have yet to even re-translate the language.
  • The PC release got delayed numerous times until April 2018 (game was released in September 2017) and it is still released in poor condition. Modders were able to fix the problems in seconds, but it's still not perfect and many users have been unable to play it properly.
  • The English translation was also abysmal and it gathered enough attention that Japanese news sites were reporting on it. It received a re-translation in January 2018 and according to a couple die-hard Falcom fans across the net the game's second-half loses its quality in the re-translation (one of them described it as NISA running out of fuel to even bother).
  • The Nintendo Switch release is also a bit of a mess. They had to present multiple patch deadlines including offering Japanese audio support not at launch or even on the base cartridge. The game supposedly suffers from similar issues with dialog that plagued the other versions like Japanese kanji in the same dialogue as English text or the same sentence repeated twice.

Also:
I've already chosen Laxia as waifu for the game
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Received from eBay, I was a bit worried about them being fakes when I ordered them, because they were listed as anime figure - girl standing complete with box, and anime figure - girl sitting on a table complete with box, but I'm pretty sure they're genuine. 20180625_171058.jpg
 
Posted in the anime/manga thread but also bought som non-anime/manga related stuff...

Always been a fan of the Garfield comics, he makes such a fool out of Jon Arbuckle! XD
 

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