Here’s a funny story for Dark Shiki and Italicus. A while ago Italicus posted screenshots from Ciel’s game ¬Ç¬ª¬Ç√߬Ç√å¬Ç¬¢¬Ç√´¬ÅA¬Å@¬Ç√ù¬Ç¬∏¬Ç√å¬Ç¬¢¬Ç√´¬ÅB¬Å@(Color of the sky, Color of the water) I thought “Mmmm, anime realism. Must… not… buy…” Well, of course, I ended up buying it from the Anime Jungle because they were still able to stock the first edition CD-rom version while Himeya only had the regular DVD edition in stock. Little did I know that Jungle tacks on a 10% fee for their service of selling you the item and that their shipping rates are not exactly friendly, even compared to Himeya. But that’s all besides the point. The package was sent via EMS, but nobody was around to sign for it when it came in yesterday, so I went to the post office this morning to pick it up. It took it out to my car to open it, and I saw that it had “US customs inspection” tape on it. I though it was no big deal because everything inside is perfectly legal. Well, everything that was supposed to be in there was in there, but they weren’t exactly careful about inspecting the game. The didn’t put the cardboard inner case back into the outter shell, and just crushed the outter shell packageing back into the box and shipped it to me. They opened all of the discs to check the content. Anyway, I was really angry so I went stright back into the post office and filed a complaint right away. It had insurance on it after all. They wanted a recipt and I couldn’t find one. I went back to my car and found the recipt there with the game discs. Then I though, wait a minute, I can just keep these discs. This guy at the post office won’t know the difference between the demo CD, drama CD, soundtrack CD and the game discs. So, I took everything but the game discs back in with the recipt and the claim is being processed. I should get all of my money back, but I won’t find out for sure until next week. Even though the discs are in perfect condition, they were opened by customs so I had to check to make sure they worked. The game installed without any problems. Now, Dark Shiki says that a game’s packaging means nothing and that only the content on the discs is important. Let’s see if anyone shares that opinion. I love the packaging for my games, especially the Japanese games. I’ll probably buy this game again from a different seller after I get my refund from the post office. But, I have this perfectly good set of game CDs. I pulled a fast one on them, but they deserve it for screweing up my precious bishoujo game box. Anyway, I know that Italics wants to play Japanese games now, and that he really likes the character designs in this game. So, I’m going to offer to sell them to you for $30 plus shipping to Italy. It’s your big chance to play this game without paying so much money, Italicus, but you won’t get the box with it. I guess it depends if you are more like Dark Shiki or me. Anyone can offer to buy the game discs from me but I wanted to give Italicus the first chance since I know he wants this game.
(HCG)
http://www.sp-janis.com/soft/soramizu5.shtml
[This message has been edited by bishounen_blue (edited 12-10-2004).]
