If you don't love Cyberpunk when you're done...if you're ever done, then we can no longer be friends!

I wish I could forget it and play it all over again :(

start playing Alan Wake on Gog

I'm re-playing Alan Wake 2 on my Series X! I ordered a copy from England which works here and I've been having a blast. It really is such a unique game. Like a creepy melding of Twin Peaks, Stephen King and Alan Wake's first game. I'm excited to get to the DLC, too!

Alan Wake Remastered goes on sale for a couple bucks on Epic all the time, if you want a slightly more polished version than the GOG one (though it isn't much of an upgrade)

I do love puzzle games

I absolutely do not. I remember playing Professor Layton games on my DS and just going straight to a walkthrough for 'help'. Once it got me past one puzzle, I found myself looking at it for every single one and when I realized I just stopped playing. Puzzles and I do not mix!!!

Excellent article, very interesting fix!

Thank you! I think the 'writing style' on my behalf was pure laziness this time, it was just a 'hey here's what happens when you buy a broken one!' kinda tale. But thank you for saying so :)

I LOVE stories like yours, when someone's hope is lost but then they take the dive and go forward with a repair. I'm so glad you not only got yours back in action, but that it was objectively better than before! I suppose I have to go and check out DJMP now?! :)

There's something so satisfying about bringing something back to life too!

What do you mean by local seller? Should I contact the Japanese store directly instead of going through the proxy?

Sorry, I mean buying in your own country. It does cost more, but you are actually better off just finding one there. It is a shame, I went through a whole process of finding a proxy service which still ships them and can be bothered with the paperwork, From Japan which got renamed to One Map is the only one which did ship them:

https://www.fromjapan.co.jp/en

This was a year or two back, so maybe check them out?

The Vita is technically shippable, but a few years back Buyee decided they didn't want to do the paperwork. So now it won't be shipped through them! I thinl Neokyo (another proxy service) actually did the same a little ways back also.

That is the only handheld which you can't order though (go figure). PSP, all Nintendo handhelds are fine. Although there is a limit on two li-ion battery limit when they ship an order, so if you get a switch, they'll send the tablet in one package and the joy-cons in another.

Hope that helps. It is frustrating, because Japan's prices are much more reasonable, but you'll have to go through a local seller or eBay (where the seller bothers with the paperwork to ship the built-in Vita battery)