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Child of Light Deluxe Edition

PLAYSTATION 4
Child of Light Deluxe Edition
Ubisoft4/30/2014Europe

Some games arrive and quietly rewrite the rules. The Child of Light Deluxe Edition on Playstation 4 packages Ubisoft's watercolor RPG with the kind of reverence usually reserved for studio Ghibli box sets, and it earns every bit of it. This is a game that played like a living painting, and Ubisoft leaned all the way in with the physical goods.

The centerpiece here is the A2 poster designed by Yoshitaka Amano. Yes, that Amano. The man who defined Final Fantasy's visual identity for decades put his brush to Aurora's world, and the result is something you frame behind UV glass and never apologize for. Pair that with a 24-page artbook filled with previously unrevealed concept art, and you've got a window into the creative process that digital galleries just can't replicate.

The Igniculus key ring is a nice tactile nod to your glowing companion, the kind of small detail that separates a thoughtful collector's package from a marketing afterthought. Digital bonuses round things out with the Dark Aurora Customization Pack and the Golem Pack, giving you extra content the moment you boot up.

Child of Light was the mid-gen PS4 era at its most creatively ambitious. A AAA studio making a hand-painted fairy tale with turn-based combat and rhyming dialogue. It was weird. It was beautiful. And this Deluxe Edition understood that the audience for this game wasn't looking for plastic figurines. They wanted art. The Amano poster alone makes this a grail-tier display piece for anyone who appreciates the intersection of gaming and illustration. If this one's been sitting on your radar, don't let it drift any further away.

Child of Light Deluxe Edition Unboxing Video

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