Gaming Purchases - September 2018

September 3rd:

some movies to get the month started

DVD:
Barbie The Pearl Princess (2013)
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 (2013)
Det Bästa Med Johan Glans Det Bleka Hotet (2011, new and factory sealed)
Pixels (2015)

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September 7rd:

another movie

DVD:
Batman Unlimited Animal Instincts (2015)

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September 13th:

Comic + LEGO:
Mickey Mouse comic with LEGO polybag - LEGO Jurassic World 30382 Baby Velociraptor Playpen

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September 24th:

Ordered a PS2 game today, it should arrive in a few days. (it arrived in the mail on october 1st, exactly a week after I ordered it)

PlayStation 2:
Legend of Kay (new and sealed)

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September 28th:

Bought a little toy car today while out grocery shopping to cheer myself up from doing something as fucking boring as grocery shopping.

Majorette:
Lamborghini Aventador (yellow)

Game Purchases - Juli 2018

Juli 2th:

Starting this month with another movie purchase.

Bluray:
The Emoji Movie (2017)

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Juli 5th:

Got a tip from a friend that a secondhand shop downtown had a bunch of games from the game store that closed down last year, so I took a trip downtown and did some browsing, most were new and most were still factory sealed.

Game Boy Advance accessories:
Logic 3 GBA Fun Pack (3x thumb pads that you put on top of the d-pad, rubber grips for the back, screen protector overlay and a wrist strap)

GameCube Wii:
Destroy All Humans! Big Willy Unleashed
Funfair Party
Minion Everyday Hero
Sprint Cars

PlayStation 2:
Alpine Skiing 2005
Army Men Sarge's Heroes 2
Artlist Collection The Dog Island
Breath of Fire Dragon Quarter
Destroy All Humans! 2
Dynasty Warriors 5 Empires
Everybody's Tennis
EyeToy Kinetic Combat
Mercenaries 2 World in Flames
Mercury Meltdown Remix
Naruto Ultimate Ninja
Naruto Uzumaki Chronicles
Pipe Mania
Pool Shark 2
Project Eden
SpongeBob SquarePants featuring Nicktoons Globs of Doom
Tak and the Guardians of Gross
The Sims 2 Castaway
Transworld Surf
Volleyball Challenge

Xbox 360:
Syndicate

I also went to the other second hand shop I go to regularly and picked up a ton of comics and also another game.

PlayStation 2:
Sniper Assault

DVD:
Jurassic Shark

Manga:
D-N-Angel (paperback, volumes 1-11)
Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne (paperback, volumes 2-7)
Time Stranger Kyoko (paperback, volumes 2-3)
Vampire Game (paperback, volume 1)

Comics:
Asterix Caesar's Gift (vol 21, 1977)
Asterix in Belgium (vol 24, 1979)
Asterix in India (vol 28, 1987)
Captain W.E. Johns' Biggles Den Hemliga Eskadern (vol 7, 1984)
Comics 6 Den Stora Serieboken (vol 6, 1974)
Fenomenala 4:ans Äventyr (Les 4 As et l'Aéroglisseur, vol 2, 1964)
Johan och Pellevins Äventyr 1 Vilden i Klippiga Skogen (Le Lutin du Bois aux Roches, vol 1, 1973)
Superman 25th Anniversary Special (1974)
Superman Revenge from the Phantom Zone (1980, printed 1981)
W.I.T.C.H. (volumes 2-3 and 6-11 2002, 7-10 and Halloween Special 2003, 4-9 2004, 5-6 2005)
Yoko Tsuno The Curious Trio (vol 1, 1972, printed 1981)

Toys:
Matchbox Specials Chevrolet Camaro (1:40, 1983)

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Juli 5th:

and some more movies

DVD:
A Ghost Story (2017)
An Inconvenient Sequel (2017)
Jurassic World (2014)
Unknown Soldier (2017)
WarCraft The Beginning (2015)

Bluray:
Jurassic World (2014)
WarCraft The Beginning (2015)

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Juli 11th:

Was out shopping a little today and picked up some stuff.

PC hardware:
Trust GXT 155 Gaming Mouse
Trust regular mouse without "cool" name with numbers and stuff

Other:
a pack of various electrical parts

What really made today special was the fact that I got stopped and asked to show my bag before I was allowed to leave the store in two different stores, it's never happened before ever and now twice in one day, I dunno maybe I looked unusually criminal today? I don'ät know, all I know is I won't be going to Jula och Net on Net anymore, they think so lowly of me that they treat me like a common criminal then they have lost me as a customer, I've been going to both those places since the 90s and this has never happened before, they know me, I've never shoplifted or stole anything in my life, I was honestly shocked and offended and even more so that it happened twice like this, I'm still in shock over it.
If this is how they choose to treat their longtime customers then fuck em, I'm out, no more, I will take my business elsewhere, I won't force them to take my money ever again!

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Juli 16th:

The first of two online orders I placed last Friday arrived today. All items are new and sealed.

DS:
Transformers Dark of the Moon Autobots (toy car bundle)
Transformers Dark of the Moon Decepticons (toy car bundle)

PlayStation Vita:
LEGO Batman 2 DC Super Heroes
LEGO Batman 3 Beyond Gotham

PC:
AquaNox Collection (AquaNox and AquaNox 2 Revelation, Nordic Games)
Big Mutha Truckers 2 Truck Me Harder (Medallion)
Guilty Gear X2 #Reload (Medallion)
Monster Madness Battle for Suburbia (Games for Windows)

DVD:
Independence Day Resurgence

Bluray:
Independence Day Resurgence

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Juli 17th:

The second order arrived. All items are new and sealed.

PlayStation Vita:
LEGO Jurassic World

Xbox 360:
LEGO Jurassic World

Amiibo:
Samus Aran (Metroid Samus Returns)

Bluray:
Independence Day 20th Anniversary Attacker Edition

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Juli 26th:

Long day today, went out for a long walk early in the morning, then walked downtown and checked two secondhand stores and found a whole bunch of games among other things, and lastly I met up with a friend I hadn't seen in ages and talked to him for 2½ hours.

at the first place I got:

DS:
Ellen Whitaker's Horse Life

Wii:
Cruis'n
RTL Winter Sports 2009
Top Spin 4
Wheelspin

PlayStation 2:
Smash Court Tennis Pro Tournament 2
WALL-E

PlayStation 3:
Bodycount
Stranglehold

Xbox 360:
Dragon Age II

PC:
LEGO Star Wars II The Original Trilogy

and at the second place I got:

Xbox:
Over The Hedge

Xbox 360:
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3
Forza Motorsport 2 (in a bundle with Viva Piñata)
Forza Motorsport 3
Iron Man
Juiced Hot Import Nights 2
Jumper Griffin's Story
Kinect Adventures! (disc only, hidden in the Juiced 2 box under the Juiced 2 disc, found it the day after)
N3 Ninety-Nine Nights
Prince of Persia The Forgotten Sands (Special Collector's Edition)
Sonic The Hedgehog
Spider-man Friend or Foe
Viva Piñata (in a bundle with Forza Motorsport 2)

DVD:
Barbie in The Nutcracker
Barbie of Swan Lake
Biker Mice from Mars (vol. 3)
Bratz Pampered Petz
How To Train Your Dragon 2
My Little Pony & Friends (The Glass Princess, Sweet Stuff and the treasure hunt)
My Little Pony Tales (vol. 3, )
The Black Cauldron (Special Edition)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Noble Entertainment)

Bluray:
TMNT (2007)

Comics/Magazines:
24x Disney Princess with cardboard folder to store them in
W.I.T.C.H. sticker album with some additional posters
Bizarro (Vol. 5, 2004)

Other:
Disney's Cinderella wooden wall plate

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Juli 30th:

Some more secondhand finds today.

Game Boy Advance:
MadCatz MagLens SP (screen magnifier for Game Boy Advance SP)

DS:
Cooking Guide - Can't decide what to eat? (new and sealed)
Rubik's Puzzle World (Bakugan Battle Brawlers box, no manual, just a standard Nintendo health and safety precautions booklet)

Wii:
Pocoyo Racing (RTL Winter Sports 2008 box and manual, no manual for Pocoyo Racing)

PlayStation 2:
Jetix Puzzle Buzzle (new and sealed)

Books:
Fräcka Fredag!

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Juli 31st:

Went on another secondhand binge today, 25 more games where of a whopping 22 were dupes of games I already had, several even being multiple dupes of the same game. I've definitely never bought this many copies of the same games at the same time before.

PlayStation 2:
Artlist Collection The Dog Island (new and sealed)
3x Bakugan Battle Brawlers (new and sealed)
Ben 10 Alien Force (new and sealed)
6x Bratz The Movie (new and sealed)
2x Crescent Suzuki Racing
2x Everybody's Tennis (new and sealed)
2x Jetix Puzzle Buzzle (new and sealed)
Madagascar Escape 2 Africa (Platinum, new and sealed)
Mercury Meltdown Remix (new and sealed)
Rayman Raving Rabbids (new and sealed)
Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow
SSX
Stuntman
Thunderhawk Operation Phoenix

Xbox 360:
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 (infamous german version, altered for censorship and with no language options, german speech and text only)

Game Purchases - Maj 2018

Maj 12th:

Haven't gotten much of anything since last month, still no new games at all.

Magazines:
The Lego Batman Movie + Harley Quinn on rollerskates exclusive polybag figure


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Maj 17th:

Some stuff from a second hand store today, still no new games though.

DVD:
From Dusk till Dawn 3 The Hangman's Daughter
Kung Pow! Enter the Fist!

CD:
Dio
Musikgymnasiet 95

Other:
Boo-Diddley (Super Mario McDonalds figure with tongue that moves)

and a DVD from a movie store

DVD:
Trolls (2016)

and a magazine from a grocery store

Magazines:
Donald Duck + LEGO 30531 Ninjago bike polybag set


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Maj 21th:

Just some movies from a movie store today.

DVD:
Bring It On (2017)
Free Fire (2016)
Shopkins Chef Club (2016)
The Exception (2016)
The Lost City of Z (2017)
The Mummy (2016)
What Happened to Monday (2017)

Bluray:
47 Meters Down (2016)
Bring It On (2017)
The Lost City of Z (2017)


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Maj 24th:

Doesn't look like I'll be getting any new games this month, just another LEGO magazine + polybag set today.

Magazines:
LEGO Jurassic World + LEGO Jurassic World Velociraptor baby and nest limited edition polybag set

Now Playing - Mars 2017

Mars started off with watching lots of movies and not really playing a lot of games, but that all changed when I got myself a PlayStation Vita the 15th and the second half of the month has been gaming almost around the clock, mostly Sly Cooper Theieves in Time that I picked up on PS3 after having caught up on Vita. I've been playing them with parallel save files so I can compare every step in both versions, only one thing so far has stood out as different, the bow and arrow mission had you get 120 points to pass on PS3 but only 85 on Vita, making the mission on Vita much easier to compete, I actually had some trouble on PS3 and it took me several tries while on Vita I did it on the first try no problem, so it wasn't really harder on the Vita like I thought when i saw the lower number, they were just more lenient in that version it seems, which means the trophy you get for completing the challenge is also easier to get on Vita, seems a bit unbalanced but it's literally the only real different between the two versions outside of visuals I've found so far, the rest is virtually identical, at least in content, the controls are of course a little different but not enough that I'd say it makes an actual difference, it really does feel like I'm playing the same game when I switch from one to the other, the visual difference is only noticeable for a few second than you get into the game and forget all about that and play on as normal.



Elasto Mania (PC)

Super Mario Bros. 2 (Entertainment System)

Loaded (PlayStation)

ReLoaded (PlayStation)

Baja Edge of Control (PlayStation 3)

SEGA Arcade Gallery (Game Boy Advance)

Sly Cooper Thieves in Time (PlayStation Vita)
Finally get to play this on Vita now that I have finally own a Vita. Content and gameplay wise it's on par with the PS3 version I'd say, I haven't noticed any real differences in those areas, be that for better or worse.. a great game still.
Visually is another topic entirely as the Vita version has a lot of visual stuff missing, like tons of small environment details, overall polygonal detail, environment shadows and lighting effects, the cel-shaded black outline effect on characters and enemies and a whole bunch of other minor special effects like the heat wave emanating from lit torches and such, it also runs at half the framerate, 30fps tops instead of the 60fps tops on PS3. It's funny how some items, especially the small treasures you pickpocket from enemies still retain the black cel-shaded outline, I guess they just forgot to remove all of it from the game.
The Vita version also lacks many language options, the biggest suprise being the complete lack of english in the version I got hold of, I wasn't playing it in english on PS3 but I do enjoy hearing the original voices in games, especially when the original is in english, so not having the option to do so on Vita is baffling, I can understand having other languages alongside english but removing the original language, especially when the original is english, is completely beyond me, and it's an extremely poor decision to say the very least.
Thankfully it contained the same language I play on PS3 so it works fine for me, but had someone who doesn't speak any of these languages bought this copy they would've been screwed as the only international option is so mysteriously missing.
Still, it's a great game and it's a good portable version of the beefier PS3 version for sure and because of the better motion sensors in the Vita some of the motion control stuff is actually a lot easier to do on Vita than they were on PS3 using the Dual Shock 3 controller, it's both more responsive and more accurate on Vita when using the tilt controls.
I actually had real problems with one specific mission in the third episode on PS3 where you had to do a bunch of minigames to train a character, Rocky montage style, and the controls were just so bad I kept failing and it was just awful, but on Vita I did it on the first try, it was a bit tricky but the controls did what I wanted and it was actually one of the easiest missions in the game at theta point because of it, unlike on PS3 where it remains the hardest part of the game so far.

Spy Hunter (PlayStation Vita)
I used to own and have played the older first remake for Xbox and PS2 and I have the sequel on Xbox as well, they were really good I thought, especially the sequel, and this is yet another remake in similar fashion and I like this one a lot too.

Reality Fighters (PlayStation Vita)
A fighting game where you use the camera to create a fighter and fight in augmented reality, it's good, similar to what Invizimals did back on PSP but on the next technical level, very nice.

Smart As... (PlayStation Vita)
Solve problems and such, it's fun, I like game like this, it's also narrated by John Cleese which is nice.

Tearaway (PlayStation Vita) I fell instantly in love with this, so adorable, I just wanna hug it, all of it. I love Tearaway.

Killzone Mercenary (PlayStation Vita)
I'm impressed by the visuals and it plays great, a worthy game of the Killzone name and so much better than 2 and 3 were on PS3.

Deception IV Blood Ties (PlayStation Vita)
An excellent successor to the fantastically brutal Trapt on PS2, as good on Vita as it is on PS3, and vice versa!

Sly Cooper Thieves in Time (PlayStation 3)

Jurassic Park Rampage Edition (Mega Drive)
After having seen MrBaffacake's review on Youtube I had to give this one a try.