The Collector's Edition

I was just about to go pop in the game until I realized that the pictures I took of it would probably be more interesting here than on tumblr or facebook. So here's the collector's edition. If anyone wants any more clear pictures of anything, just let me know. My cell phone camera isn't the best but I hope everything is clear enough.





so yeah. That's the book, the soundtrack, the game, the steel case, and the little artbook with the PS3 theme voucher on the back. It's a pretty nice little artbook, though the first artbook (which I also have) is definitely more detailed. I haven't gotten around to reading Successors of Hope yet, I just flipped through it a little bit. It has some hella kawaii illustrations. The steel case is really cool. Hopefully someday I'll have a nice place to display it.

aaaaand here's the figures



it wasn't until after I took the pictures that I noticed colette literally has a chunk of figure on her hair on her left side. Luckily, I managed to tear it off without damaging the figure.

Its so beautiful and glorious...I kind of regret not trying to get it now xD Oh well, my thought process was that Xillia 2 might have something awesome so to save my money for that, hopefully its the truth ;p

It looks great Jazzeh <3

Dat Box. Dat Steel Case

I wanted to get it, but I waited too long and all the retailers didn't have it for pre-order anymore T_T

Meanwhile I don't have a PS3 to begin with, so it'd be a disservice in more ways than one for me to grab one.  Such regret.

Then what am I doing here?  Appreciating that gorgeous stuff, you mooks, this thing is insane. Ugh, somebody scan that beautiful box.

So excited to get this <3 You have no idea.

I'm sorry, but all I can stare at is how Emil is all messed up on the corner of the box because of the way they printed the image. Ew.
Other than that, it looks like it'd be pretty great. If it didn't open right through the art, anyway.

Didn't notice it o.o Are all boxes like that?

Wow, I didn't even notice that. It's also like that on the corner where Lloyd and Colette's art meet. But depending on how you're viewing the box, it really does seem like it seamlessly transitions between sides of the box. I think it only looks funky like that because the image is static and from a very specific angle.

And yeah, Dyl. The steel case is pretty awesome. I didn't think I'd like it so much. The inside and back of it have some pretty cool art, too. I'll have to take pics of that sometime.

The EU collector's edition is sadly not a fraction of how good this is. We don't have the art book, the audio discs are with the game discs in the same case, we have no steel book, and the overall box it comes in is much cheaper looking - it's not hard card. We get the chibi figures however.

Aww the EU edition is different from the US one? Sucks :/ Oh well..... still looking forward to it, of course ó_ò

Huh, I didn't know we got a different one... I guess at least I'm prepared for less now.

At least I get that phone pouch, thanks... *le gasp* GameStop

Oh, the localized Collector's Edition actually has more goodies than the Japanese one. I did not know that.

Also I'd like to direct your attention to this topic right here, much obliged.

Why the hell is there a difference between the EU and NA Collectors' Editions anyway? ¬_¬

I would like to point out that North America got shafted when if came to any special edition of Graces f (though one could argue that the few months more Europe had to wait justified it) plus we didn't get the Teepo steelbook for Xillia IIRC.

If both branches would properly coordinate however neither side would have to feel shafted.

It sucks that the EU CE has a bunch less stuff, but honestly I'm glad the NA version gets some good quality stuff for once. We always get really shitty preorder bonuses (or none at all) or limited CE's for most games, so I'm kinda happy for us.

Namco definitely seems to favour Europe more, particularly when it comes to anime-based games (they actually get retail releases for one, and usually with swanky LEs that come with figures and stuff.) Generally the quality of their North American LEs are higher though, when we do get them.

Moontoon wrote:

Didn't notice it o.o Are all boxes like that?

Just opened mine, it's perfectly fine. I will note that you can't tell if your copy is screwed up until you open up the slip case, because there's opaque art on the front and back, which are the sides that Jazz's copy had duplicates on.

It's a pretty nice LE, not as well constructed as the Xillia one (and the Milla figure is better of course) but it's packed to the brim with goodies. I'll note that the inside of the artbox smells really strange, but that obviously has no bearing on anything.

Yeah, it's a pretty sexy box. Smaller than I expected considering Xillia's size. But this is actually a nice art box compared to Xillia's flimsy case box.

Anyone know of places that still have copies left? (Not including overpriced ones on e-Bay)