Yeah that's quite an investment to be able to play going in late, not just the price of the games, but the price of the consoles etc that the various games were on.

I have Faxanadu and one of the Legend of Heroes games "Trails in the Sky" on the PSP. Of which I never finished that one. I think I just tuned the entire franchise out after I heard there was no actual resolution to the one I was playing (that being in a series itself) and thinking the followups were on other systems etc.