Square Enix Easter Surprise Box 2016 (5 mystery games for 6.5€/$10) (OVER/TIME TO RIOT!)

That was a hoax

It's a decent game. If you like JRPGs, you'll probably enjoy it. It is by far the weakest of the PS1-era Final Fantasy games though IMO.

It's always been one of the oddest entries in the series, right after FFII (which was so far out that the basic gameplay got adopted for the SaGa franchise instead).

• Gameplay wise, there's the Junction system, where you store spells and either burn them to use them, or slot them for stat boosts, and where summoned creatures are attached to a character and learn their own abilities and skills.
• Story-wise, you also need to really pay attention to the details to really follow what's going on, and even then it's a mindscrew.

Depending on who you ask, it was never good ;)
Me personally, I found it quite entertaining to do low-level runs and figuring out ways to one-shot everything including hidden super-bosses with a party that stayed below level 10...

Well i liked it the best from all FF but I am the weird one...

It's not really the age that is the problem. As long as you can live with PS1 era character models (they do look good for PS1 era models), the age of the game won't really impact your enjoyment.

That said, the unique mechanic for this particular game, the Draw/Junction system is a pain in the rear. Instead of having a regular MP or Mana system for casting spells, in FF VIII you need to "draw" power from enemies. Different enemies give different spells, so in order to stock up on certain spells, you need to find enemies that have those spells. Early on it's not such a big deal, each time you "draw" from an enemy, you get a good amount of spells, but later in the game, when you need the more powerful spells, you'll only draw 1-2 at a time, and sometimes you'll fail to draw a spell from an enemy. This makes the game feel very grindy, and filling up on an important spell can take quite a while. You also link your spells to your characters, which make them more powerful (the characters that is) depending on the spell, which discourages you from using your spells. Overall, I really dislike this mechanic, and think it hurt the game. I for one won't replay the game without some cheat that will let me auto-refill used spells at save points or something like that.

geolock being gone now

doesn't look that way :-(

Dying Light got it removed

Sleeping dogs is one of those games i want but i won't buy.. Hope i win a copy here :P

Final Fantasy XIII-2
Final Fantasy VIII
Sleeping Dogs Definitive Edition
Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut
Quantum Conundrum

we need a RaChart to evaluate that ;-)

93% discount, it seems to be on edge, usually games around 95% get the bundled list treatment

Yeah, looks like the Sleeping Dogs keys are not Definitive Editions but are in fact Digital Edition, which may cause problems with giveaways if they are winning one thing and receiving another... I'm not sure if that's a mislabel on the Easter Bag or they are giving out the wrong key though.

Publisher bundles are a lot safer buys than say Humble Monthly as you can better gauge what your likely to get against the titles you need. For anyone just starting to build a game library the square enix boxes are spectacular value. If you only need one or two of their "older releases" then waiting is probably the better choice.

I needed both final fantasy's and quantum conundrum from this one and am happy with the price it cost. I'll probably give the other two away here and hope someone else enjoys them as much as I did.

The trick is, the dupe games that lots of people have can be cheap, but the highly valued games can be impossible to get or expensive.

yes, I got it that way so bundle seems even less appealing. FF8 is a mobile port with BROKEN graphics. FF13-2 is decent, Sleeping Dogs probably the best game in this bundle. Deus Ex is worse version and bundled many times. So I'm glad I didnt waste my money :)

Guessing because it has ended. The NA link redirects to Home page for me.

it is over

x2

Hear hear!