Oh, get your minds out of the gutter. I don't mean that I, uh, do things with them; I mean that I have an odd attraction to them.
It all started when I bought a copy of Freshly-Pickled Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland from the UK. For some unknown reason, that game's clear, thicker-than-the-ones-we-get-in-North-America case (see it in this photo) appealed to me so much that I wanted a few more.
I got my wish a few months later when I picked up a copy of the Euro version of Professor Layton and the Curious Village. (Here's a photo of it, in case you're, er, curious.)
There was, it seems, no turning back after that, as I quickly added Euro copies of Professor Layton and Pandora's Box, Professor Layton and the Lost Future, Last Window (the sequel to Hotel Dusk: Room 215) and Jam with the Band to my collection of DS games. (Photos of the aforementioned games can be seen here, here, here and here, respectively.)
Sadly--for my bank account, especially--I'm not through purchasing such games. I plan on picking up a copy of the Euro release of Inazuma Eleven at some point this year, for instance, and I also hope to buy a copy of Professor Layton and the Spectre's Call (the fourth in the series--it was called Professor Layton and the Last Specter in the States).
After that, though, I probably put a cork in this particular obsession--or at least that's what I'm hoping to do.
See also: Other reasons I could be considered an 'eccentric' (aka bat-sh*t crazy) gamer
8 comments:
Is it just the different plastic that gets you, Bryan?
It's that they're clear and a bit thicker than the standard JP/NA cases, Justin. Also, they tend to have unique box art. I'm a sucker for such things :P
I really don't like the thicker EU cases - the size means they take up more room on my shelves! D:
I can understand that, Kimimi. I'm just weird, I guess -- I always like things that are a bit different from the norm :)
Nothing wrong with that! I definitely prefer the frosted white plastic they use, I just wish they were thinner :)
Yeah, the frosted white plastic is my favorite thing about them. Also, I really like that many of them have unique cover art (see: the Professor Layton games). I wonder why they're thicker, by the way? Very strange...
I imagine it's to accomodate the potentially thicker multilanguage manuals, but I don't know if it's ever been confirmed.
Oh, that makes sense! They certainly do seem thicker than your average North American manuals, that's for sure.
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