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I think the entire purpose of this change is to bring the price back in line with US prices.

For example, the european price for PS5 with disc drive is EUR 550. If you purchase that in the Netherlands you're paying about $455 for the PS5 itself and $95 in VAT.

Sales tax in the US varies by state/county, but I guess it's often less than 10%?

With 10% sales tax you're paying $550 for a PS5 with disc drive, which is the same as EUR 550 at current rates.

Not sure if it was the last one, but most memorable is buying Kuri Kuri Mix for about $3:

It's a great cover IMO, I much prefer it over the USA cover ( The Adventures of Cookie & Cream ).

I used to buy a lot of used games, which often meant looking at a $5 or $10 game I had never heard of and trying to figure out, not necessarily whether it was a great game or not, but rather if it is good enough for the price :)

I didn't end up playing it much, but it was still good value.

(and it's a really fun curiosity considering what From Software would become -- sadly I had to get rid of all my physical games when I moved to the other side of the world).

One of my favorite experiences on Switch (apart from the obvious Nintendo first-party games) has been Dragon Quest Builders. Minecraft with bits of JRPG story was exactly what I needed when that came out.

(supposedly the second one is better, but I have not played that one)

I just finished this and really enjoyed it. At times I felt like it was adding too may mechanics too quickly, but I never had to look up any solution (*), so I just needed to take a breather and take it in.

(*) actually, I couldn't figure out the very final puzzle. Obviously it's easy to unlock the door, but somehow it didn't occur to me to look away from the puzzle and check if doing so would unlock something in the 3D world >_< That's the only thing I looked up.

100%, that ending was perfect. I would play a sequel which was entirely made up of puzzles which jump between 2D and 3D like this -- but I'm glad it was just this one puzzle area at the end of _this_ game.

Oh, nice!

Obviously that part didn't work for me, in situations like these I do sometimes wonder if a game is bad or just not for me (the difference isn't always obvious). So, it's interesting to read that it is your favorite part of the game :)

I enjoyed meeting these characters and uncovering their story. I really didn't care for the gameplay, I did not enjoy figuring out how to catch many of the Bugsnax, so I ended up googling "How to catch X" for a bunch of them -- and didn't catch any more than strictly necessary to help everyone.

I did start the DLC island after finishing the main game, but the interactions with the big bugsnax there seem even more unclear to me there. And as I don't want to google my way through the DLC island, I've given up on that and switched to the next game in my backlog.

I didn't realize that that postcard was supposed to inform me that Eggabell and Lizbert somehow escaped the island, I just thought it was a photo of them in better times. But an interview at IGN confirms that they don't die at the end. Which is good to know I guess, though I wish that was clearer in the in-game ending.

I did! I was a massive Hellboy fan, obviously the game is terrible, but I had to finish it. After I got stuck and couldn't find any walkthrough for it, I started over from the beginning and wrote a walkthrough myself. The only walkthrough for this game on GameFAQs is mine >_< ... I hope it helped some people finish this piece of trash :)

@cyrribrae said:

Yep, that's it. I looked at some youtube stuff after my previous comment, and I never noticed or found that. Presumably the game told me about that at one point, but it didn't register. If I had known about that during my playthrough, I probably would've had a better experience >_<

I don't know how to keep going, I have no idea where to find any of that data. I wonder if I somehow missed an area? I remember something needing a key to unlock, but I never found that key either, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Anyway, I'll probably not go back to it. There's too many other videogames which need playing! :)

Somehow this game didn't click with me.

At the start, it seems the most important quest is disabling your tracker, so I wanted to focus on that. However, there are some other scary things counting down when you start the game, so I focused on getting food and stabilizers. By the time I wanted to pick up that thread again of disabling the tracker it didn't seem to matter anymore, because the main person tracking me was already dead.

Throughout this game I never felt I had much agency. I did not figure out how to disable the tracker or help Feng, I never figured out how to help Sabine or Lem & Mina. With no idea how to make progress on about four quests, I eventually left the station with Bliss? (the person up in the tower working with Moritz) -- as that seemed to be the only option for me to finish the game.