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Saturday, 8 August 2009 15:50
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[personal profile] eternal_rena
I went for a little window shopping today at a new shopping mall that just opened. I actually got an e-mail saying that a shop has 20% discount storewide during this National Day, so I went and see if there was anything interesting. Needless to say, I came across a game shop at that very same shopping mall while going up to the floor where the shop I'm going is.

Now, I have this habit of going into a game shop whenever I spy a new one that I've never been to before to do price checks on roughly how much they sell games for. I actually already know a shop that sells cheaper than all of the places I know so I always use this shop's prices as a guideline, but I'm always hunting down more shops to look for games since this shop I frequent don't always have what I'm looking for. So if the price is within the reasonable range, I will remember the shop as one of the places to look for games.

So this shop, after looking through the Xbox 360, Wii and NDS Games, I concluded that the price range was reasonable enough so I make a note of this new shop that I can come to look for games. I actually wanted to get King of Fighters XII (NTSC-J Asia version for the Xbox 360), so I'm currently looking at the prices (and then there is this shop where I have some shop credit with them from selling some games I no longer want to them and was looking to use it up on either a new or used copy of a game I wanted or a second Xbox 360 wireless controller, but the price of the game is higher than the shop I frequent). I was wondering whether to get it from there. However, at that point, I haven't finished looking through the shop yet. It was only half the shop I've looked through, so there were games for the PS3 and PSP I haven't looked at yet. Naturally I skipped the PS3 section since I don't have a PS3 yet so I don't bother looking at PS3 games, walked across someone trying out the Wii (I think I blocked the sensor bar for a second there, since I spied where it was too late to avoid it :P) and came to the PSP section. Just as I was looking through the games, I saw a game I didn't quite expected to see. It was...

Tales of VS

Yes, I got tempted there, especially seeing the game sitting on the shelf. Now mind you, it's quite rare to find a shop here in Singapore that carries Japanese games also on top of English games, that's why I wasn't expecting to see it on the shelf (they also had Tales of Phantasia Full Voice Edition O_o).

So I took it from the shelf to look at it, then put it back and went over to the PS2 section to see what they have while muttering to myself about Tales of VS, not that I'm really looking for anything for the PS2, except for The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night (but I'm going to buy the Wii version from Play-Asia since they have it really cheap, but they have both Ar Tonelico games, but not going to play that though). After looking at the PS2 section, I stood up and went back to the shelf and took a copy of Tales of VS and bought it >__> I wasn't actually planning on buying Tales of VS since the only place I can normally buy Japanese games from is Play-Asia and really can't be bothered about it...

So...uh, yeah. After that, I went up to the shop I was supposed to go to, looked through everything but didn't see anything I wanted to buy from there, and went home.

I can't wait to try out Tales of VS though. But my PSP is out of power since I haven't used it for a long time (damn PSP still using the battery power even though it's turned off), so I need to charge it first...

8/8/09 09:03 (UTC)
[identity profile] kazenokaitou.livejournal.com
LOL I have the same problem EVERYDAY. Granted in Japan it's like the temptation will not go away, because every game store has it and I always want it, but I know I need to wait for the English version. XD

8/8/09 09:25 (UTC)
[identity profile] eternal-rena.livejournal.com
But there is still no announcement on whether it's going to even be localised in the US. I'm actually not counting on Tales of VS being localised though, since the crossover type of Tales of Games tend to not get localised. But if it does, I'll just sell away the Japanese one to a shop here (or maybe someone on my flist if they want it) and get the US version...

Tales of Vesperia PS3 and Tales of Graces...these two, I actually like MUST HAVE a US localisation...I'm still hoping/waiting for it to be announced at this point in time. Then I'll start jumping around and screaming "YES! YES!" and get all excited and post it on my LJ XD

8/8/09 11:05 (UTC)
[identity profile] kazenokaitou.livejournal.com
Hahah I guess that's true, I just assumed it because so many people were talking about it. XD But yeah, no guarantee. I'll probably wait it out a little though anyway, just to see.

Graces for sure I could see being localized for the US. That one just seems more likely (I think they were talking about it in Nintendo Power so maybe it's confirmed already? Again, my one friend talks about it a lot, so it feels like it's already been decided so I just assume, haha). Vesperia I'm a little iffy on... just because they rarely bring over the same game even if it's on a different system, right? I dunno, I just remember that with Symphonia, they released it on the PS2 with extras and all that and it never came to the states (which made me sad). :/ But yeah, it would be nice if it came to America (even though I don't have a PS3 EITHER. XD).

8/8/09 11:41 (UTC)
[identity profile] eternal-rena.livejournal.com
I would save up and buy a PS3 of Tales of Vesperia PS3 gets localised in the US.

9/8/09 03:41 (UTC)
[identity profile] yaminokaitou.livejournal.com
Half the time I forget Graces is not coming out in the US... and I get surprised every time I read NP and it's not under the game forecast.

Vesperia has a chance, but it really depends on how much Sony wants it and how well the Xbox 360 version did in the US. Symphonia for the GCN did fairly well, so maybe that's why they decided not to bring it over on the PS2.

9/8/09 03:45 (UTC)
[identity profile] yaminokaitou.livejournal.com
Well, not coming YET. It took a while for an English release of kor to be announced, so I wouldn't be surprised if we have to wait a bit to hear about Graces being licensed as well.

10/8/09 02:26 (UTC)
[identity profile] eternal-rena.livejournal.com
I say the PS3 needs more RPGs. I'm mainly a RPG gamer, and unless there is a game that I really must play that comes out for the PS3, I'm not going to buy it. So if ToV PS3 gets localised...I'll definitely get a PS3.

ToS PS2 not getting localised is actually not a huge loss, cause there aren't a lot of added content between the two versions. However, ToV PS3 is a completely different story. I'd be pissed if it doesn't get localised.

8/8/09 14:19 (UTC)
[identity profile] silentdrifterz.livejournal.com
L-Lol, that's pretty lucky to find it then.

I'm still sitting here, waiting around to see if it'll be localized for the time being(Which, it seems highly), but if nothing shows up in the next few months, I'll probably do the same and import.

8/8/09 14:54 (UTC)
[identity profile] eternal-rena.livejournal.com
Yeah, it seems likely Tales of VS would get localised in the US, but at the same time I'm not so sure about it due to the previous track record for crossover type "Tales of" games getting localised by Namdai US at the same time

Since I saw it sitting on the shelf...I was like "What the heck, I'll buy it." However, if it does get localised in the US, I'll just sell the Japanese one and get the US version when it's out. There's a shop that literally buys almost any game...so it's easy for me to get rid of it.

9/8/09 03:43 (UTC)
[identity profile] yaminokaitou.livejournal.com
I kind of want VS, mostly for Mao and Richter. I felt jipped that we couldn't play as Richter for more than five minutes in kor, so I'm excited to be able to play as him in VS. I'm also liking that Yuri, Caius, and Shing are in it. Too bad Tilkis and Tytree didn't get picked...

Let us know what you think of it!

10/8/09 02:27 (UTC)
[identity profile] eternal-rena.livejournal.com
I'll definitely post stuff on it.

9/8/09 23:39 (UTC)
[identity profile] miken-chan.livejournal.com
Mmmm...Tales of VS is a game that I wouldn't go so far as to bother to import (since that's just a pain and I don't think the game's worth it), but if it manages to get localized, I'd buy it in an instant. Still, it's very lucky of you to find it like that~<3

Have fun with it!

10/8/09 02:29 (UTC)
[identity profile] eternal-rena.livejournal.com
Yeah, I wasn't planning on getting Tales of VS cause normally the only way to get Japanese games was to import. While it's not really too much of an issue for me since Play-Asia has free shipping and there is an Asian Version of the game, I really wasn't in the mood to order it online either.

Of course, seeing it sitting on a shelf at a store locally is a completely different story though...