Collecting update

A lot of your generous Patreon donations go towards expanding my collection of Japanese games on a variety of platforms.

For the moment, I've been taking advantage of the fact that certain platforms have extremely cheap games in order to pick up as many as possible! For those of you who are also collectors, PS2 and PSP games are both dirt cheap right now, so jump in and grab some while you can.

The nice thing I've found is that the sort of thing I'm into — overlooked, underappreciated or otherwise niche-interest Japanese games — tend to be on the cheaper side, which is nice. Many of D3 Publisher's Simple Series titles on PS2 were around the 50p mark, for example, and most PSP games I've picked up recently have been no more than about £5 tops. Bargain.

There are a few exceptions, obviously, some of which are games I'm quite interested in grabbing. In particular, I'm quite up for snagging a copy of Fate/Extra on PSP after how much I enjoyed Fate/stay night — this is a game I've actually had my eye on for a long time, but had wanted to hold off until I was a bit more familiar with the series. At present, second hand copies of this seem to be around the £40-45 mark; still reasonable, but not quite in "impulse purchase" territory, particularly when there are a bunch of current games and VNs I want to pick up.

My latest batch of orders haven't arrived yet but I'll be sure to share them with you when they arrive. PSP is turning out to be a ton of fun to collect for, so I'm looking forward to expanding my library further!