Thread:Velt211/@comment-2003:D6:4722:2E2A:DD17:3F8A:F36C:2C58-20190924042015/@comment-40164738-20191113011427

Probably a difference in mindset rather. We do complain a lot after all, wouldn't want to give the Dutch population anything to complain about. We won't shut up about it. It might pop up when the economy is booming. Digital prices are cheaper in (non eu?) eastern europe as well. One of the sources for the keysellers, though their biggests sources would probably be more dubious. The law is technically the same over here, but I've never seen it applied. I bought games which I was "too young" for. then again in the late 2000s to early 2010s we had a whole issue with alcohol and tobacco (light stuff for both) being too easy to buy. Just get a "more adult" looking 14 year old and they'd assume he was 16+. They check more now and they even upped the age limit, but it goes to show how lax it was and probably still is for games atleast. Not that I mind that much, most 18+ ratings for games tend to be ridiculous anyways. Most shopping already gives your personal info away anyways, so I guess it'd be fine for that despite my security concerns. For anything else I´d rather not. They also limited hours it seems, I´d say 1.5 hours (3 in weekends) is a bit strict, but the age limit seems fine. Not sure if it only applies to online games though, info is a bit unclear.

I couldn't get any Alicesoft books or music CDs either. Again might be because we don't have a real Amazon presence here, so no direct shipping anyways. Guess I'm stuck with proxies. If it has what you want, why bother changing? Personally I just go for the cheapest, not like shipping can take longer than a day or two here anyway.

Those ports taught me how a bad translation can ruin a game. The game itself as an RPG isn't that special from what I remember, decent fun. So obviously the story and music have to carry it. Music did fine, it's just that the further you went into the Gagharv PSP ports (in their order, not the actual windows order) the worse the translation got from what I remember. Keep in mind that it started out decent and it became worse than a modern machine translation at times (though it mostly stuck to decent/mediocre). I guess I still enjoyed the ports to a degree, otherwise I wouldn't have finished them. But lookin at videos I'd probably have preferred the PC-98 or Windows versions, you actually fight in the environments instead of a vague plane which has the same textures and barely any objects. That's a cool find, don't know how rare old mail order stuff is in Japan. So I guess Trails in the sky is still in your strike zone then? I'd say that already started to feel much more "modern anime game", still great fun though. Sad that the gameplay is more complex than cold steel, but the biggest problem that has is it's main character being the worst "Gary Stu" ever. The zwei games were nice too, somehow included them in my to play list despite not being related to the Legend of Heroes at all. Don't regret it though. Game needs to succeed before it gets mod/content creators. Lets hope they focus on decent marketing as well, as that is probably one of the most important things in the large market these days. Hopefully there's a big enough core to market too, so they don't have to simplify the game.

Hope you got good neighbors. The 30th anniversary does look disappointing content wise, but not surprsing. They're apparently working on 3 titles after all, so a big sale would atleast get some goodwill and extra money. I don't think they'll announce anything else though, as it does seem like a pretty big sale event.