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[Metal Gear Solid - Official Mission Handbook Dengeki G's Magazine #009]

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New Releases / Re: New Releases - 11/25

Last post by HUNZso - Nov 25, 2025, 09:10 AM

Metal Gear Solid - Official Mission Handbook

Dengeki G's Magazine #009

 

The Metal Gear guide is really nice, but MAN, what a pain to scan.  Dustlines everywhere forcing rescan after rescan.

Brilliant work. Thank you for your hard work, sir.

[Metal Gear Solid - Official Mission Handbook Dengeki G's Magazine #009]

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New Releases / Re: New Releases - 11/25

Last post by bigkev - Nov 25, 2025, 12:29 AM

Metal Gear Solid - Official Mission Handbook

Dengeki G's Magazine #009

 

The Metal Gear guide is really nice, but MAN, what a pain to scan.  Dustlines everywhere forcing rescan after rescan.

That Metal Gear guide, cover and all is glorious. Thank you very much for the upload.

#13

New Releases / Re: New Releases - 11/25

Last post by theassassin - Nov 24, 2025, 09:02 PM

Thanks for the MGS guide, always wanted to flip through that

[Metal Gear Solid - Official Mission Handbook Dengeki G's Magazine #009]

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New Releases / Re: New Releases - 11/25

Last post by kitsunebi - Nov 24, 2025, 08:07 PM

Metal Gear Solid - Official Mission Handbook

Dengeki G's Magazine #009

 

The Metal Gear guide is really nice, but MAN, what a pain to scan.  Dustlines everywhere forcing rescan after rescan.

[Xenosaga Episode I - Official Strategy Guide]

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New Releases / Re: New Releases - 11/25

Last post by kitsunebi - Nov 21, 2025, 09:48 PM

Xenosaga Episode I - Official Strategy Guide

Xenosaga Episode II - Official Strategy Guide

Banjo-Tooie - Official Nintendo Player's Guide

Breath of Fire III - Prima's Official Strategy Guide

     

[Edge Presents....]

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New Releases / Re: New Releases - 11/25

Last post by Kiwi - Nov 21, 2025, 08:44 PM

In the UK it was titled "Edge Presents...." while in Australia it was titled "Gameplayer Presents The 100 Best Videogames" and it's the latter that DanielPrimed has kindly scanned for us which ironically has saved me the trouble of doing, so I can finally throw my physical copy out at long last 

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New Releases / Re: New Releases - 11/25

Last post by Kiwi - Nov 20, 2025, 03:23 PM

Some comments made lately but in the October thread have been deleted. Far too difficult trying to move them to the November topic and I'm in a grumpy mood and couldn't be arsed trying to figure it all out. Seriously considering locking old topics to prevent cross chat so we keep it to the current month only 

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New Releases / Re: New Releases - 11/25

Last post by gobbins - Nov 16, 2025, 05:55 AM

I think it's one of those rare curiosity pieces that only the most obsessive of gaming collectors would purchase just so they can have it displayed on their shelf.

Exactly this. There's obviously far more "economic and accessible" ways to play the game in the modern era, but that won't get you the attention that likes and retweets on Twitter does, nor does it give you the credibility that having it on a bookcase in the background of your YouTube video while you stand in front of it and yap.

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New Releases / Re: New Releases - 11/25

Last post by IloveCats100 - Nov 15, 2025, 05:59 PM

Skimming through Issue 88, I couldn't help but notice that the review for Rule of Rose had the game going for 25 pounds. It's unfathomable to think about now when you consider the game is one of the most expensive PS2 titles which now goes for prices ranging from amounts as high as $1000 to prices as "low" as $300.

Interesting.  I've never even heard of it.  But a quick look online shows it got pretty terrible reviews across the board, so I guess its value comes strictly from scarcity?  Crazy that someone would pay $1000 for a terrible game.  But I guess no one pays those prices to actually PLAY it.

I too could not justify spending a three-figure sum on a game, despite its quality or rarity. With Rule of Rose, I think it's one of those rare curiosity pieces that only the most obsessive of gaming collectors would purchase just so they can have it displayed on their shelf.

Rule of Rose is quite popular with the games as literature critique crowd, I believe. It's got a story that has been hotly debated and examined over the years due to its psychological nature, touching on topics like gender and childhood trauma through metaphor and symbolism. It's apparently very intense and creepy! It's not my sort of thing, but there's been a lot of re-evaluation of games that were once lost in the shuffle of releases, so to speak! It's also by like a cadre of developers who have a very long history? I believe a lot of them worked on Earthbound, then on the Japan-only PS1 RPG moon, and some other obscure titles, so there's a subset of fanatics who follow the individual developer's works. One of them was in fact Toby Fox, creator of Undertale, who has said that hearing about Moon RPG on internet message boards growing up inspired his mega-hit!

I suppose even if a game is not critically reviewed, it still has some special attributes all its own, not just rarity behind it!

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New Releases / Re: New Releases - 11/25

Last post by bigkev - Nov 14, 2025, 09:45 PM

Skimming through Issue 88, I couldn't help but notice that the review for Rule of Rose had the game going for 25 pounds. It's unfathomable to think about now when you consider the game is one of the most expensive PS2 titles which now goes for prices ranging from amounts as high as $1000 to prices as "low" as $300.

Interesting.  I've never even heard of it.  But a quick look online shows it got pretty terrible reviews across the board, so I guess its value comes strictly from scarcity?  Crazy that someone would pay $1000 for a terrible game.  But I guess no one pays those prices to actually PLAY it.

I too could not justify spending a three-figure sum on a game, despite its quality or rarity. With Rule of Rose, I think it's one of those rare curiosity pieces that only the most obsessive of gaming collectors would purchase just so they can have it displayed on their shelf.