We've spend half a decade seeing snippets of footage and it was immedtiately obvious, that this was going to be a very different beast than the original - even to me, someone who never in his life cared much about FF as a franchise, with only passing knowledge and interest for the most part. Also, after doing some looking around, even Eternal Sonata got 're-translated' for the PS3 version, to the point that the differences are considered pronounced, as well as the PS3 version also having quite a bit of additional content added (making it a kind of Director's Cut version, much like Star Ocean: The Last Hope). But I guess just like with Star Ocean, these games were still children of their time, and thus some flaws must be forgiven. Dating can be fun, but it can also be really painful. I'd love to see some changes and tweaks, while still hitting the same, or very similar, major story elements, which is almost exactly what they did with the remake so far, and that's really when I enjoy a remake the most, rather than when it tries to remain perfectly faithful (just don't replace a nearly perfectly done element with one that is utter crap, I've seen that and don't care to go there again). Thus one of the reasons I'm not looking into doing the 4K upgrade, and mostly couldn't care less about it so long as the games will still be playable at lower resolutions. ^^. Said 'chosen' hero doesn't even know about needing to journey to save the world until the Fairy mentions it to the Priest of Light once they are in Wendel meeting him, and there are only two reasons they even agree to the journey to save the world. Tell us a little about the voice work in the new game and the process of incorporating it in this updated version of the story. The list just goes on and on. I've thought about that issue for FFVIIR as well. No doubt. I mean, I am not gonna lie, I just checked it out and just looking purely at the promotional cover art, I am kinda turned off. Even if we could move beyond the Uncanny Valley, and I think we will, just looking at what can already be acomplised with machine learning, photorealism leaves no room for artistic impression. It is guilty of several of the major sins so many jRPGs tend to fall victim to, like you mentioned already. Though Kevin's journey ends up becoming one of revenge, with the best means of getting it being setting off to save the world, since the one he wants revenge against is one of the ones threatening the world. Hold on there, you need to login to post a comment... 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I won't argue that Sakaguchi's obsession with world building has caused him problems, it certainly has, and ever since the primary transition to 3D games you really have to use any given setting multiple times to justify the cost of doing any truly in-depth world building. The fundamentals are very much not the same now, as they have been in 1997. It still takes more than 30 seconds of combat time to kill the Black Rabite, but the lock-down prevents it from using its full-heal move (oh, and that move isn't blocked by any abnormal status, just the lock-down affect of continuous spell damage). Unlike FFXI the game is decently playable with just keyboard & mouse, but it plays a lot better 90% of the time with a game controller (now if SW:TOR could offer controller support, it would improve the gameplay a noticeable amount, but they just won't add it). Oh, and none of the Western released companion materials that came with the game told you about any of that, you literally had to figure it out for yourself in every version released in the west. However, that bandwidth isn't free and so we charge a small monthly Still, the last couple of months or maybe even years have given me pause. I care more about the story than just about anything else. @Priceless_Spork Depends, personally, I did not like it. Still, to me, this is just the better version in almost every way. These are ideal areas for that kind of VO banter to pass the time, just one example really. Kingdom Hearts at least manages to pull a decent reason for a short-term massive loss of power, with long passages of not fighting leading to an obvious loss of ability and skill. Duran's was Strength, Kevin's was Constitution, Charlotte's was Spirit, Hawkeye's was Dexterity, and Riesz's was also Dexterity, though I might be a little off and one of the last two had Luck instead (probably Hawkeye, his Dexterity and Luck tied for highest stat in his Tier 1 class, and I tended to split him between the two). Ill be grabbing this day 1 if i can make my way to Wal-Mart on release day. I have not had 'bad luck' with using my 360. Anyways, booting up Demon Souls did not and still does not scream: jRPG. @Razmoudah Well, I would argue objectively: no. I imagne it must have been a relieve for them, when they shipped VII and it was received by and large this well. I would instantly grab those day one. Final Sword Returns To The Japanese Switch eShop As A Def... Video: 13 Great Wii U Games Still Not on Switch. But I think it will be good. "Is This a Zombie?" That said, the music in Trials was pretty darn sweet. On a very basic level, I enjoy the combat in SMT games for instance. I can totally understand though, that the story bits are controversial, particularly the ending. Still, if you can't miss learning any of them anymore it'll only be a moderate nuisance, rather than a straight up flaw like in the original. It had balancing problems with drastic what felt like weekly shifts. It does not get mch more interesting in terms of alternative history than that game. Hmmmm.....a Trials char to attempt again with. Nothing conveyed that part of his nature stronger to me than his voice performance, nothing. But to me, that misses the point. First, once you have a character who can use a Boomerang, or other group hitting weapon, you can actually select which enemy is hit first, which does notably impact the usefulness of such weapons over the course of the game (as well as some other strategies). As for Persona 4, no, well, I think Persona 3 felt darker to me. The technology for a "proper" upgrade over the base consoles is available and has been for years. @Razmoudah The way you put and the way I remember it, it ought to have been WKCI then Yeah, bittersweet is a good fit for describing the ending and really most of the show. If you do give the Trials demo a second chance there are a few very important things to keep in mind first though. Now Trinity Univers is probably a 'shuffleware' title, it's fun and has an unusual story but ultimately it feels like little more than the video game equivalent of a B movie (almost worse about it in some respects than Secret of Evermore on SNES in fact), so not counting it isn't a major loss even if it was a PS3 exclusive. PSN limits what you can do, e. g. in terms of automatic save-game backups, when your account is not "primary". There more of them, they came out earlier before being ported (shoddily at times), and the best ones were only on 360, aka Lost Odyssey. Anyways you say, is pretty true. There is also an audio book even, which I enjoy. By the sheer numbers, the PS3 blows the 360 out of the water. There always was 2p co-op in Seiken Densetsu 3/Trials of Mana. It is either putting an emphasis on stuff, I do not really care for, or it is really not good promotional material. After all, how do you explain characters suddenly being weaker than they were just a few in-game days ago? Generally, I do like mindfucks of a sort, esp. I am really hearing greating things about the latest addon and like I already laid out, I am a huge fan of Yasumi Matsuno's work, so I am more than curious to see his work on Shadowbringer and the previous addon as well. No part of this site or its content may be reproduced without the permission of the copyright holder. I might be wrong though. RIght now, I would assume that there is no progression between titles. I hope the PS5 can address the texture loading issue, as I found it to be most annoying technical issue with the game for sure, and would very much like to play it once more without that ^^, But yeah, in general I am not sure that a 1:1 to remake, even as far as the basic plot goes, was ever promised. That gap widended, but it was there pretty early on. I feel, they are pretty much culture agnostic in a way. It's really only the much, much longer history and well established previous standards of Final Fantasy that I'd even be willing to give FFXVI a chance, whenever it happens. On a normal 'of 10' scale the Game Informer scale would actually be -10 to 10, in half points. I know what you mean about Persona 3, but it was my impression of it at the time, and it does start off lighter in tone than the others (but still darker than most games, I was only comparing it to the typical SMT title), as you don't learn about the special way the Evokers are used until well past the relative point when the first dead body showed up in 4. Both consoles allocate two Jaguar CPU cores to the operating system, and what sounds like a disproportionately higher level of RAM than one might expect - especially in comparison to PC, where Windows operates perfectly well with less than a gig of memory at its disposal. The large mode increases this considerably to 5.25GB, but the docs are clear that the extra RAM here is only available for application development, presumably in order to house debugging data. Quality games were far and few between. Actually, some of the best sprite-work I've seen in a long time. It was actually pretty hectic. The difference is that they've been getting more and more lax about the story-telling, to the point where at times it feels like the movie is more about the fanservice than the story, which starts to make it feel more like badly written soft-core porn in my opinion. So does that mean the remake is 2 players as well? In order It's very much a theme in the west though, where some games used their character creation to market their games. 1: The story is actually split up into 3 grand saga sets, and which one you get is based on who your 'chosen' hero is. From what we understand, the extra gig of flexible memory appears to work in addition to these allowances. My PS4 Pro playing God of War forced me use headphones. Still, I also saw a fair bit of the recent remake of the 1st one and that looks ugly as **** and was obviously made on the super cheap. If those games mentioend above had not been ported, I don't think we would have need to discuss whether platform was the "jRPG machine" of the last generation. Although the third boss is able to pull out a move that has an 'attack zone' that covers the entire battlefield. It's more like "adventures staring at Slimes". And even then it would definitely hurt the friendship that had been built up and it might just take years to rebuild it (and yes, I'm one of those who feels that if you can't view the person you're in a romantic relationship with as a friend you're doing it wrong). The one thing I really like about PS4 here: SHARE PLAY. Like movement is kept to a minimum. It's just not as engaging an experience, not at all. Just waiting or This classic to launch.... @Tasuki the original game was two players. In terms of functionality, I definitely and vastly prefer the Xbox One for features that bother offer as well as stuff only the Xbox One even bothers with. Sure, the story and world, excellent writing/localization, amazing art direction, perferct cutscene direction, brilliant atmosphere would survive, but the game would feel mechanically less engaging, if all mechanics were just put into a tutorial. One thing I can think of, that worked for me personally, were the "A Thousand Years Dream" in Lost Odyssey. Also, after some more thought, I've realized that there has been more than a couple of magical girl type animes for an older audience, and it isn't that unusual for them to go down darker paths either. As for the whole problem of personal skill ceiling. Metro 2033 is a survival horror first-person shooter video game, based on the novel Metro 2033 by Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky. However, sources close to Sony suggest that the PS4 approach is perhaps more flexible - the current allocation in terms of both CPU cores and memory could be reduced once the operating system is complete and then streamlined. 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