Beacon Pines: Collector's Edition

If you enjoyed the game, you will probably not regret this purchase The art book has ~200 pages: 130 of which feature high-quality drawings of the game's assets (characters, locations etc.) and 70 of which feature behind-the-scenes content (such as character development, scrapped characters and sketches). I also loved the sound track of the game. It's really immersive while playing so having it as a standalone helps appreciating it. HOWEVER The sound files are a little disappointing though. Sure, I did not expect lossless FLACs - though I would've appreciated it - but the MP3s are a bit too much compressed for my taste. VBR V2 compression is fine I guess but there's absolutely no need to put a lowpass filter at 18.5 kHz (i.e. to basically cut off everything above 18.5 kHz). This doesn't meaningfully improve size while potentially affecting quality for a small chunk of listeners. It's a minor nitpick but it should be pointed out nonetheless. It turns the sound track from "basically indistinguishable from lossless compression" to "if you are able to hear high frequencies you can notice a difference between these files and lossless files". If you want the sound track, it is probably best to purchase it separately on Bandcamp where you can get actual FLACs. It is a little more expensive though, so you should factor this in. Overall rating: Game: 5/5 Artbook: 5/5 OST: 3/5 (due to the "only" average quality sound files) ---------------- Overall: 4/5

...so you'll have to pay twice as much for the extra crap you don't want. I guarantee it.