/vr/ - Retro Games

Got the bastard on my 3rd attempt after farming for Yggdrasil Dew and Elfin Elixir (which this version makes a LOT easier to do). 1st attempt I probably reached 3/4th of his HP which was impressive considering I came unpreprared, second attempt lasted 1 turn because he wiped out pretty much my entire team and I hit reset right away...

Verdict on this re-release: it's very hit&miss

Cons:
- huge downgrade on visual and audio quality
- the VA is a mess, OG VA was good for the most part, but here they added new ones which are all bad. I think they even changed some of the OG VA by new worse ones, and it seemed to me that there are even characters that are a mix of two different actors (old one + new one for new lines), what a mess.
- All the new stuff make the game even easier when it didn't need to be

Pros:
- The extra content is not too bad for the most part. The first new dungeon is shit, just flat square empty hallways, the second dungeon is OKAY though it reuses assets but at least the new boss is brand new and a good fight. The last "dungeon", a bunch of rooms with powered up bosses from the main game, is the real deal and demands of the player to be lvl99 and use everything the game offers to win. In comparison the Dragovian Trials are just a walk in the park.
playable Morrie was useless but playable Red was neat and she is a good replacement for Yangus.

Other:
- switching random encounters to visible static enemies is hit&miss situation, it has some good side and bad sides. Grinding for gold/exp is about 4 times faster than in the OG at least.
- the changes to the alchemy pot is also a hit&miss thing, in a way I like it (having to wait half an hour when you were just mixing herbs in the og was awful), but it also completely gets rid of the entire point of experimenting with mixing for yourself, now it's just "do you have the items? Yes -> you don't even need the recipee, the pot will tell you what to mix"

tl;dr only recommend after playing the original