Personally, I played so many JRPGs in the 90s and 00s that I burnt out. If I didn't have nostalgia for the original, I probably couldn't play through these remakes. Some of the quest design is just straight up busywork.

[–] jagermo@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I played the original for months, and I know it is cheezy, but the storyline with Jessie feels like a filler to pad out the episode.

[–] heavy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Not saying you're wrong, but my take was it was depth they wanted to add to give weight to later scenes but couldn't in the original for space and time reasons. I have no evidence to back that up.

[–] heavy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

It's probably an acquired taste at this point. I definitely understand why it's cringy, but I was a big fan of the original and when you got to read everything in your own internal voice, the context was a bit cleaner. JRPGs generally put Japan's culture and tendencies first, so it can be alienating when you don't get to fill in some blanks yourself. Assuming you're western.

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I know better not to be excited by Square's works before they release, but looking at the bottom of the image, I can't say there's not a bit of curiosity as to how they'll implement the "Bizarro" boss battle, probably my favorite battle of the original game.

[–] GTKashi@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Not that they won’t wheel it out again, but since Bizarro was in Rebirth I’m guessing we’ll just get a grandiose version of Safer/Savior/Seraph Sephiroth instead.

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Oh look, a 30 year old game that everyone who was going to play has already played.