Game-related book shopping list
Jul. 11th, 2013 10:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
indigozealBarring those original magazine printings of Vheen Hikuusen and that Clock Tower: Ghost Head manga I'll probably never find...
- Illbleed guide. Scans from past Yahoo auctions show it has what I believe is background info on the movie scenarios that make up the game's stages, displayed in the form of movie posters and press kits. Considering how crazy the game itself is, I can only imagine how the background lore is.
- Silent Hill 4 complete guide. There's another, apparently less-complete version of this guide that was released...just a month? before (a trend I just don't get - incomplete guides, I mean; don't spare the spoilers, people, they're what I'm paying you for). Just want to see if it has any more background info.
- The doujinshi anthology Angelique Treasure, detailed here, because while I don't really go in for the official fan-comic books (Angelique has a ton of them), apparently Vheen Hikuusen artist Akari Funato drew a story for this volume, a short piece with Collet & Victor that seems appearance-wise to be an alpha of Under the Rose.
- More Baten Kaitos infatuation: mega expensive artbook, strategy guide that's a partial artbook, comic anthology, novel 1, novel 2.
- 999 novels. A two-parter. Novels of a visual novel. Jokes aside, I'm interested to see how they adapted the branching/parallel storyline.
- Not a guidebook, but there's an issue of the old U.S. game magazine Game Players - here it is - that featured a bunch of 8-page-or-so looks at early Genesis games. I pored over the Phantasy Star II article again and again when I was a kid - it laid out its screenshots not as a strategy guide or linear narrative, just as a series of snapshots of places and people you encountered on the journey, and I fell in love with the world and artstyle. The magazine isn't scanned anywhere that I can tell, and I'd like to read it again.
Now all I need is five hundred extra dollars.
.
- Illbleed guide. Scans from past Yahoo auctions show it has what I believe is background info on the movie scenarios that make up the game's stages, displayed in the form of movie posters and press kits. Considering how crazy the game itself is, I can only imagine how the background lore is.
- Silent Hill 4 complete guide. There's another, apparently less-complete version of this guide that was released...just a month? before (a trend I just don't get - incomplete guides, I mean; don't spare the spoilers, people, they're what I'm paying you for). Just want to see if it has any more background info.
- The doujinshi anthology Angelique Treasure, detailed here, because while I don't really go in for the official fan-comic books (Angelique has a ton of them), apparently Vheen Hikuusen artist Akari Funato drew a story for this volume, a short piece with Collet & Victor that seems appearance-wise to be an alpha of Under the Rose.
- More Baten Kaitos infatuation: mega expensive artbook, strategy guide that's a partial artbook, comic anthology, novel 1, novel 2.
- 999 novels. A two-parter. Novels of a visual novel. Jokes aside, I'm interested to see how they adapted the branching/parallel storyline.
- Not a guidebook, but there's an issue of the old U.S. game magazine Game Players - here it is - that featured a bunch of 8-page-or-so looks at early Genesis games. I pored over the Phantasy Star II article again and again when I was a kid - it laid out its screenshots not as a strategy guide or linear narrative, just as a series of snapshots of places and people you encountered on the journey, and I fell in love with the world and artstyle. The magazine isn't scanned anywhere that I can tell, and I'd like to read it again.
Now all I need is five hundred extra dollars.
.
