A couple of days ago, I finally received my elusive and much-awaited physical edition of Summon Night 5 after many a delay. I was surprised by the presentation of the thing: although the description at Play-Asia seems to imply that this limited physical edition is a Special of sorts, with the use of the world "bundle" and an appetizing list of featured items, the final product is actually more akin to a low-budget custom-made edition—which is exactly what it is, en passant. As a result, there was no outer box and the game and OST were sent separately, unceremoniously bundled by a rubber band:
The box contains a full-colour booklet and a reversible poster:
This is really just a regular PSP game with a poster and a soundtrack CD on top, but it's remarkable as one of the last of its kind and as a true work of love and passion. The fact that the UMD is a proprietary format that is no longer produced nowadays means that there will very likely be no more physical releases for the PSP and that the homebrew scene for this console will be emulator-based. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if Gajinworks had to ditch the planned limited physical edition of Class of Heroes 3 for an impossibility to procure UMDs. But let's wait and see—and hopefully play! Thanks for reading, and be my guest anytime!
PS: The North-American PSN code that came along with my physical edition is still there for the taking, by the way!
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