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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...
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...
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8/8/09 09:03 (UTC)no subject
8/8/09 09:25 (UTC)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
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8/8/09 11:05 (UTC)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).
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8/8/09 11:41 (UTC)no subject
9/8/09 03:41 (UTC)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.
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9/8/09 03:45 (UTC)no subject
10/8/09 02:26 (UTC)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.
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8/8/09 14:19 (UTC)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.
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8/8/09 14:54 (UTC)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.
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9/8/09 03:43 (UTC)Let us know what you think of it!
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10/8/09 02:27 (UTC)no subject
9/8/09 23:39 (UTC)Have fun with it!
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10/8/09 02:29 (UTC)Of course, seeing it sitting on a shelf at a store locally is a completely different story though...