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Initially I was not even going to get it, after having played Sophie I thought I wouldn't care for any more of the back then new Atelier stuff, so I decided against getting it. I was also mad that it was digital only after Shallie Plus actually got a proper physical release, and since it never went on a sale I never even thought of getting it again. It was also the reason why I didn't even download that one cool theme that was made available for free during the launch period, because I was so sure I wouldn't care about it, despite already having downloaded a bunch of free themes I have effectively never used.

Time went on and it became clear Vita specific sales would never happen again, and after the first news of the storefronts closing it naturally got me thinking of all the things I should get before it actually happens, and it lead to a bunch of spending sprees thinking that those ones are going to be the last, and then ending up not being that since I always found something else to get. At that point I had already been affected by the Firisposting in these threads, to the point that I was actually warming up to the idea of getting all the Vita Atelier games, since I had bit the bullet and bought Ayesha for a full price earlier. I decided to make Firis the final purchase I would make, but since the asking price was the full price, it took me a long while to actually get to it since I wanted to save it for a time when the time would feel right and I would have enough excess funds to splurge on it. Turns out that time got postponed time and time again, just like many other things in my life because the time "didn't feel right".
(continues in the next post, jesus this turned out to become quite a long one)