You may recall that yesterday I was somewhat bamboozled by the fact I had received a "delivery failed" notification from Amazon for my copy of Smash Bros, yet somehow the game had still arrived.
Well, today I solved the mystery. I figured I'd pop along to the post office just in case someone had made a terrible mistake somewhere; the worst that could happen is that I'd end up with two copies of Super Smash Bros, in which case, yay, free trade-in credit.
Turns out the Royal Mail had messed up; while the Amazon package was delivered successfully, there were also two other packages (pictured above) which couldn't be delivered: one required a signature, and one was too big to go through the letterbox. As such, the postman had recorded the failed delivery and attached this information to the Amazon tracking; the other two packages had not come from Amazon, however. Confusion ensued.
Doubtless you're champing at the bit to discover exactly what was in these mysterious packages that I have now retrieved. So I shall keep you in suspense no longer, dear reader.
The white package was from CEX, our national chain of second-hand games stores. After writing my MoeGamer Awards piece the other day about collecting for the Wii U, I figured it was time to add a few more Wii U titles to my collection. The Wii U is interesting in that there aren't a huge number of games that are exclusively available for it, but those that are exclusives are well worth having. In other words, it's well within most people's reach to have a "complete" Wii U collection, of at the very least the exclusive releases; I'm probably not going to bother with the multiplatform games that also had a Wii U release, because the PS4 versions of those will be better in most cases. Also a lot of them are titles I'm not especially interested in.
Anyway, these are four games that I was missing from my collection, and prices seem to be dropping gradually for Wii U games, so I figured I'd pick these up while they weren't terribly expensive. I anticipate in a few years Wii U's small install base and status as a "failure" will make it and its software quite sought after by collectors, so I'm trying to fill out that library now while everyone still just thinks "lol, Wii U".
The second was from boutique publisher Strictly Limited Games who, like their more well-known counterpart Limited Run Games, release physical versions of digital-only games in strictly limited quantities. I saw a while back that they had some Vita copies of shoot 'em up Gundemoniums still available, so I snagged one. Gundemonium Recollection, a previous incarnation of this game for PC and PS3, is one of my absolute favourite shoot 'em ups, so I was very happy for the opportunity to own some sort of physical version of the game. I'm not sure offhand how Gundemoniums differs from its predecessor, but I'm interested and excited to find out.
Well, if I can drag myself away from Super Smash Bros. that is… I'm making good progress on unlocking the roster!
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