Previous years, I went massively over budget. This time, I stuck to around $100. And I swore, I’d only get stuff that I’m truly excited about.
So here’s what I got:
- Warioland 1, 2, & 3. These are the Japanese versions. All were C$5 each.
- Sub Terrania. I’ve wanted this game ever since I was a kid. Thrilled to have it in box for C$20.
- Black & White 2. One of the best PC games of all time, but you can’t get it on any storefront anymore. Got it in box for C$15.
- Dark Cloud. Despite what the cover art indicates, it is not like Zelda—this is the spiritual sequel to Landstalker: The Treasures of King Nole. Got it in box for C$20.
- Untold Legends: Brotherhood of the Blade. A hack-‘n-slash action RPG. This was C$2.
I was tempted to buy a PC Engine console for C$50 but then I’d have yet another console hanging around my house.
All of the games I got are, in my opinion, must-haves.
I just did a playthrough recently and I think it holds up pretty well. A lot of wasted time on little cutscenes like opening Atla/boxes, and switching characters that gets quite annoying, but gameplay was fine.
One or two bosses that are difficult but a little leveling up, or wiki hints on how to cheese them, and they are a piece of cake. Once you hit the ship dungeon and have easier access to backrooms (since you can buy the fish to enter them) you can grind for gemstones and you end up being able to one hit almost everything from there on out.
Grinding gets a bit boring after a while, I'll admit I enabled some fish point cheats in my emulator after I had one character with a maxed out weapon. Clear that I could easily do it myself but wasn't going to waste that time to upgrade the other weapons I wanted leveled up.