Randomly played one of my fave video games—Graceful Explosion Machine—again earlier. And in the midst of my lil warm-up level, I decided to see if the digital copy on my Switch is the only medium the game comes in.
And to my absolute delight, I learned that it did have a physical release! (Four-thousand copies were made and released on June 19th, 2020, via Super Rare Games, for $31.23 USD each.) Copies of which are inexpensive compared to some of the other games on my list! (Shantae and the Pirate's Curse, my second fave of the Shantae games, can run about as much for just a copy of it as the rest of the series with it ommitted.)
So, yeah!
I quite literally stopped playing cuz I wanna play again when the physical comes in, lol. I know it's silly. It's a whole different vibe to me.
To this day it still surprises me how darling I think of this game.
It was one of the first titles I got for my Switch cuz it was amongst the few that were even on the platform back when the hardware first released in 2017. And I put so much emphasis on GEM being good, and being ones of those games that made me feel like it was worth getting a Switch. Five years later and my love of it is still this strong. I play it like once or twice every year in a fit of obsession, working more and more towards my perfectionist file with S+ rankings on all missions.
I cannot wait to add the case to my shelves, and put the cartridge in my holder. 🥰🥰🥰
Growing my game collection brings me so much joy.
