I pre-ordered The Final of Us Segment II Collector’s Edition support in September of 2019 as soon because it went on sale. After nearly a year of waiting (and two delays), I finally obtained it on Friday, June 19th 2020. I desire to grunt you all the pieces that’s within the Collector’s Edition field.
There’s some in fact lawful stuff here, in particular for somebody who loves The Final of Us video games. As divisive because the second game looks to be amongst avid gamers, it’s unexcited a landmark game from Sportive Dog and of the quickest-promoting PlayStation titles of all time.
I’m about 16 hours into the game correct now, but I’m no longer going to discuss about that here. There are a entire lot of legit critic reports (and no longer-so-legit user reports) already available within the event you’re drawn to reports. All individuals will completely have their possess tips on the design in which it performs out, but I’m keeping all judgment till I’m fully executed with out a lower than one playthrough.
However I digress. Here’s an inventory of all the pieces that is out there within the field:
- SteelBook case with the elephantine game
- 48-online page mini art e-book from Darkish Horse
- Lithograph art print and thanks letter from Sportive Dog director Neil Druckman
- Reproduction of Ellie’s bracelet
- 6 enamel pins
- 5 stickers
- 12-lunge Ellie statue
- PS4 Dynamic Theme
- 6 PSN avatars
- Digital Soundtrack
- Digital mini art e-book from Darkish Horse
Since I pre-ordered, mine moreover came with an in-game ammo capacity enhance for Ellie’s pistol, besides a crafting coaching handbook. However these aren’t tangible items, for certain. So here’s a verify in any appreciate of the stuff that is.
First off, the field is moderately enormous—manner bigger than I anticipated it to be, anyway. That you just would possibly per chance well per chance seek it within the principle image of this post. Inside of of that field is one other field.
Whereas you pull the lid off that field, there’s a itsy-bitsy tray with the art e-book, SteelCase, and thanks letter.
Here’s a more in-depth verify on the art e-book:
And the SteelCase, that contains Ellie on the entrance…
…and Abby on the support:
The thanks booklet comprises a demonstrate from Neil Druckman, along with a placing lithograph.
Here’s a end-up of the letter within the event you earn to must read it.
Below that tray is a second tray with the bracelet, stickers, and pins.
And here’s a verify at each and each of these items individually, starting up with the pins. They’re arduous enamel (like most pins are) so you wants so that you can stick these on whatever you like and they’ll resist just a few abuse. Cloak them proudly.
And the stickers, which I will seemingly in no design exercise and stunning lend a hand forever.
The bracelet feels solid ample, I inform, but I’m no longer definite I’d in actual fact build on it. Does somebody capture stuff like this with the procedure of in fact the usage of it? I don’t, but per chance every other folks make. Whereas you’re going to position on it, I wouldn’t expect it to have a lengthy life. It’s more of a, , collectible.
Beneath that tray is the principle reason I personally ordered the Collector’s Edition—the 12-lunge Ellie statue. It looks to be like lawful, with comely crucial components at some point soon of. I’ll admit that I used to be observing for more from the glean quality (I hoped for steel), however the arduous plastic unexcited feels solid. The depraved is hollow so it feels cheap, which will be the most disappointing part of the total thing. I unexcited respect it.
The info on Ellie’s garments and the guitar are moderately lawful.
However her face is lacking in detail. I will teach it’s her, but one of the necessary finer crucial components are stunning missing. I inform that’s what happens when these items are industrially produced. I’m definite it’s stunning too laborious to invent a realistic game on the size at which they hoped to promote these.
But but every other, for lawful measure:
At $170, this isn’t an economical predicament. However overall, I’m ok with it. The Final of Us (part 1) is my favorite game of all time and one of my greatest regrets is no longer making an are attempting to search out the collector’s model model of that game. However I didn’t play it till it had been out for 3 years, so I uncared for that window by a large margin. I wasn’t going to make that again.
Segment of me wants I’d’ve long previous all-in for the Ellie Edition, which contains all the pieces here along with a The Final of Us Segment II imprint patch, 7-lunge vinyl soundtrack, and a reproduction of Ellie’s backpack. However most of that stuff would be misplaced on me—I don’t have a document participant and would seemingly in no design exercise the patch or backpack—and, as I talked about earlier, the Ellie statue used to be the principle thing I wished.
So yeah, I’m joyful with this.