can't judge the pricing since it's vapourware, but Serial Experiments Lain seems pretty sick
shame the website's so shit

What do you mean, vapourware? It looks like it was released. And what website are you talking about?

well I guess so, but from what I can tell, it wasn't very popular
I'm talking about the translation hosted at http://laingame.net/, which isn't a patch, but a site that tries to emulate the progression used in the game

Oh, nice. Thanks for the link, it looks pretty cool. I've been meaning to watch the show, so I'll have to try that out afterwards.

alright, good luck figuring it out
basically, you view databases' files with the cancelled Apple "HotSauce" net interface, meant to rival the web that you see through the anime, and you would progressionally unlock pieces of the story and unimportant files
the site does you the "service" of unlocking them all for you, but I just get the feeling that they couldn't figure it all out themselves