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To leave a bit more of a detailed review than others: its a good pack but you may not need it.

As a collection of a variety of things, its a decent deal - for 10 bucks you get what is stated on the page, a bunch of variety shaders, icons and effects to use in the project. They might not fit your project exactly but its easy enough to adjust - its godot after all.

However, thing is that a part of these effects, especially particles, are easy enough to make yourself if you are capable enough to ajdust them to your project later. If you arent, you sure can buy it and use them as-is, no question there. Similarly, a chunk of shaders (or really similar ones) in the project is available for free on godotshaders website, like the toon stylisation or water shaders. The plasma shader is effectively a copy  of the plasma shader from godotshaders which itself is a copy of the shader from shadertoy which has a license prohibiting it from being used for commercial purposes and has to be shared under the same license. Edit: The plasma shader was removed, kudos to Bukkbeek for honoring the license of the original.

But to also be fair, a large portion of things here is very well done original work, as far as I can tell, and can come in useful for anyone who wants to spend a bit of money instead of devtime to have all these FX. Looking forward to next versions and improvements - like an update to the latest engine version (though it ultimately doesnt matter), fixes to the effects (aforementioned plasma being one-way while everything else like the electric waves near it arent), flag sway being a bit randomised instead of being exactly the same loop, etc.

Hey! Thanks for your detailed review and thanks for mentioning about the licensing of plasma shader, I'll review it later and take necessary actions (or remove/ replace it from the pack). As far as I remember, I've mentioned it if I modified shaders from godotshaders.com. And as you mentioned, yes almost all of these assets can be self-made, but as many mentioned on Reddit, they use this pack as a learning tool. 

The pack was initially released at $5 with v1, But I had to increase the price as I push updates (updates are free if you already purchased - so this way I can keep the project ongoing without publishing a whole new project and my early supporters can benefit too) + I introduced Pixel Renderer (it's free & opensource). But EffectBlocks has it's own version with built-in effect spawner. There will be more updates coming on the way - stylized (cartoony) effects and space effects for now, but I have several more in my mind.

About the gdshaders stuff - I just figured its worth mentioning since its not stated on the page here; not everyone comes from reddit so worth mentioning in a broader review :p 

It certainly is a good learning tool and a start point for further tailoring, and the current price us fair given the updates and attention to the pack, especially given that older purchases get the updates for free; no complaints there. Looking forward to your future work, not just with these effects but in general too.