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I’ve been a collector most of my life. I collect one thing, slowly phase it out of my life and simultaneously phase another thing in, rinse and repeat. And I’m weird about how I collect things.

Take my video gaming collection.

I don’t really collect the games. To do so would mean that I wouldn’t have given my original Nintendo and all of those games to my sister and her husband. But there are some franchises of games where I have to have all the games. Case in point, The Legend of Zelda. I no longer have the original golden cartridge or the original Adventures of Link, but I have the games themselves in my Zelda Collection for the GameCube. I thought I had every single Zelda game and every strategy guide (except for the two games that came out on the Game Boy… I’ll have to mark those as a loss) until I started reading this book about The Legend of Zelda and philosophy (it’s an interesting read, I’ll give it that) and I learned that I’m missing one. I thought that the Four Swords game that came with the GBA port of A Link to the Past was the same game as the Four Swords Adventures game released on the GameCube. Apparently I was wrong. Well now I must go and find this game and guide to add to my collection. Oh and another thing? I’ve never beaten an LoZ game, but that’s a discussion for another blog post.

I’ve really gone nuts over Kingdom Hearts. I own Kingdom Hearts, the original GBA Chain of Memories, and Kingdom Hearts 2. I’ve even started to collect the Play Arts action figures, because apparently I’ve started a descent into madness. But it gets better. When Squenix announced that they were releasing Chain of Memories in 3D for the PS2, but not outside Japan, I couldn’t let that slide. I imported the game and purchased a Japanese PS2 because my husband wouldn’t let me send off our PS2 to get modded. I did play the game through Sora-side all in Japanese without too many problems. But you can imagine my frustration when Squenix announced this year that oh yeah, we’ll go on ahead and release CoM worldwide too. At least I can say I also have KH2’s Final Mix, as that came with the Japanese CoM. I doubt I’ll play that though, since KH2 drove me insane. As I mentioned in another blog, I’ve already preordered 358/2 days. If that’s not enough, I also have a Kingdom Hearts charm bracelet from Square Enix.

Since I’m getting into Final Fantasy, my husband expects me to follow down the same path and try to collect all the games. So far, I’m not really that interested. I have VII, X, XII, III, and Crisis Core, and I may get IV and I will get XIII, but I’m not sure about anything else. If VII interests me enough at the end, I’ll look into Dirge of Cerberus to complete the VII collection, but it really hasn’t sparked my collecting gene.

I realize none of it makes sense. But collectors rarely do.

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