
Formed in 2022 as a collaboration between North American publisher Limited Run Games and Japanese localisation company 8-4, Ltd, Superdeluxe Games may be focused more on Japan than the West, but the company is doing some exciting things in the realm of physical releases that the whole world should see.
With this in mind, Superdeluxe was kind enough to send us some samples of its latest games so we could see first-hand what all the fuss is about (thanks to the always-excellent Jake Smith for making this happen, by the way).
Radiant Silvergun Collector's Box
First up is Superdeluxe's Radiant Silvergun collector's box, which comes with a metal replica of the game's iconic craft, a 2-disc soundtrack, a selection of art prints, a collectable card, and a bonus "Deluxe" mini-magazine.
The game itself also comes with a full-colour manual (a rare thing these days).
Please note that some external links on this page are affiliate links, which means if you click them and make a purchase we may receive a small percentage of the sale. Please read our FTC Disclosure for more information.
Clock Tower: Rewind Deluxe Edition
The Clock Tower: Rewind deluxe edition comes with a CD soundtrack, art cards, collectable card, and mini-magazine. There's also a full-colour manual.
Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord Deluxe Edition
Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord Deluxe Edition has a guidebook (sadly, though understandably, all in Japanese), collectable card, and art print. Again, it has a full-colour manual inside the Switch case.
While there's obviously some overlap between the editions issued by Superdeluxe and the ones made by Limited Run for the Western market, there's something appealing about opening up these Japanese editions.
As a long-time fan of import gaming, I fondly recall gazing at the back of boxes, unable to read the language, and instead focusing on the art and screenshots to decide if I was going to make a purchase. Handling these amazing editions takes me back to those days a little, which is no bad thing.
The upshot is that, despite all of the packaging being in Japanese, all three games are fully playable in English when inserted into a Switch console from an English-language region – so you can have the benefit of cool Japanese packaging with a game you can actually, you know, understand.
If you're keen on physical releases and want something a little more unique than what's been offered by Western publishers, then it's well worth taking a look at what Superdeluxe is offering – and yes, international shipping is available.
Comments 9
Be quiet, don't let people know you can actually import these!! I want this to be my secret!
Pretty cool deluxe editions, hope you and anyone else going for these will enjoy them!
Super deluxe is proof that Limited Run COULD be decent, even with their exact business model. They just choose to be terrible for the love of the game
Fine, fine, fine. But..... I was disappointed by Radiant Supergun when I finally got to play it. Sorry.
It's great to have the physical Switch Wizardry box now sitting next to my old Apple II one. I love it how they kept the exact same design.
Lovely game it still is too - but now it comes with lots of quality of life improvements that (optionally) make it more accessible for people new to the old way of crawling dungeons.
Bizarre article this. Essentially an ad for these products but with very little substance in the writing and photography that misses out key features.
@PessitheMystic All three games have previously been reviewed on the site, so I didn't have much context to add there. As for the features of each set, I've outlined what's included in each package and given a selection of photos to give a taste for what you get. I didn't want to photograph every inch of the contents as people might want to have something to look forward to if / when they eventually order these.
Sorry the piece didn't do it for you personally.
Super Deluxe Games has a package release of Chicory: A Colorful Tale coming up. This was also announced as a Limited Run Games release, which has yet to been offered for pre-order.
The Super Deluxe Games release is available on Amazon JP and has a December 12th release date, I'm tempted if it does truly offer multi-language support like the three releases in this article.
One slight advantage of Japanese editions over LRG is the ability to purchase them from Amazon Japan and not having to pay insane shipping and customs, at least us Europeans.
Even without comparing them to LRG releases, I often prefer Japanese editions with soundtrack CDs -in some cases I'm not even into the soundtrack itself- and other stuff over standard PAL releases, because even with the shipping sometimes they end up being cheaper. For instance, that's what happens with Espgaluda II, Mushihimesama and Dodonpachi Daifukkatsu. We got vanilla PAL releases but the Super Deluxe Japanese ones have goodies and English text anyway.
Leave A Comment
Hold on there, you need to login to post a comment...