Collector’s editions⁠: They’ve burned me before, but still I keep coming back. Even with a magpie-like drive to collect tchotchkes and a love of FromSoftware, however, I couldn’t see myself dropping 230 clams on the collector’s edition of Armored Core 6, let alone four Benjamins and a cheeky Ulysses S Grant for the “Premium” skew.

Alright, well what are we getting for our money here? Both packs net you the requisite art book, stickers, and soundtrack, but the centerpiece and source of all the cost, like most mondo-editions of games (looking at you, Hogwarts Legacy floating wand) is a showstopper central collectible. For both premium AC6 editions, it’s a 19 cm-tall statuette of one of the game’s signature mechs, all kitted out with his bad ass rad guns. The $200 difference, then? You’re buying his house.

That’s the only thing separating premium from collector’s, as far as I can tell⁠—the former includes a 32 cm-tall industrial garage for your guy to live…