/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8048327
I REALLY wanted to like the Pixel Remasters because seriously, fuck the early criticism they got, the graphics look the best out of most of remakes these games had in years and the games needed to be stripped of the extraneous bullshit. But mechanically, I can't turn a blind eye to it. They made the games EXTREMELY normie-friendly, which is simply the wrong crowd to appeal to when you're simultaneously making the games look more like Origins versions rather than PSP ones. Keeping the GBA items in FFI was a horrible mistake, and they threw the baby out with the bathwater in regards to the FFII battle system, not to mention the numerous behind-the-scenes changes that make them much easier. These games were meant to give you a sense of accomplishment when you beat them, but now that everyone's a winner, that feeling is gone. For FFI&II, the twenty-year-old WonderSwan Color versions are unfortunately still objectively the best remakes (vanilla-wise, as I'm sure the PC mod community mentioned earlier will rectify that, though the inevitable console release is screwed); the fact that this is the better remake of FFIII is truly a testiment to how godawful the DS remake was (and I disagree with the music be worse - sure, it may lean a little too heavily on a few instruments, but overall PR is much richer and higher-quality than the DS soumdtrack, which looking back was designed for handheld speakers). So yeah, very mixed feelings on these, and I worry about FFIV-VI.

>>7706037
>retranslation=fanon