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| The outer box. |
This isn't quite toy-related, but it's close enough: I've been a little weak with getting posts out these past two weeks, in part because I went on holiday (I spent a little less than a week doing site-seeing in Boston), but mostly because my entertainment time has been eaten up by the mid-November release of the latest instalment in one of my favourite games franchises,
Dragon Age: Inquisition.
The game itself I've been impressed by. It's a solid RPG (although there are still some issues that need patching) and has plenty of lore for people who love the world-building, but the packaging of the collector's edition was quite possibly the least competent professional packing job I have ever seen. I'm not generally a fan of CE releases either, and this set is certainly not making it more likely for me to buy any others in the future).
The box itself looks great (and exactly like a chest that appears in-game), but upon opening it I found this:
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| Everything had a slot, yet everything was loose inside. |
Two of the chess pieces were all broken (surprisingly, nothing else appeared to be damaged):
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| The damage |
I'm not terribly upset by the breakage (I really only wanted the tarot set, fabric map, and the box itself, and luckily those items met my expectations), but I was shocked to see such poor package design on a release like this.
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| A sampling of the tarot cards. |
