Played this originally on the PS1 years ago and loved it at the time. Still enjoyed the game immensely but a few niggles:
- Some elements of the story have not aged well, the handling of Shana and her interactions with Lavitz in particular!
- Random battles in later parts of the game started to grate on my nerves
- Impossible to complete some of the special moves, even when abusing the PS5 rewind function
Overall a great trip down memory lane for me but but may not have appeal to those used to playing more modern RPG's.
- Some elements of the story have not aged well, the handling of Shana and her interactions with Lavitz in particular!
- Random battles in later parts of the game started to grate on my nerves
- Impossible to complete some of the special moves, even when abusing the PS5 rewind function
Overall a great trip down memory lane for me but but may not have appeal to those used to playing more modern RPG's.
Jogo que sempre tive curiosidade de jogar desde a adolescencia. Na época do lançamento eu joguei um pouco e lembro de ficar empolgado com os golpes em que vc tem que apertar os botões no timing certo. Mas é um jogo que talvez teria sido melhor ficar apenas na memoria. O combate é monotono, com poucas opções além de atacar, mesmo quando vc ganha a possibilidade de virar um dragoon as opções são limitadas. A história tbm é bem fraca e mal escrita.
Mas a minha curiosidade de adolescência ainda está aqui, talvez eu ainda volte pra ele no futuro.
Mas a minha curiosidade de adolescência ainda está aqui, talvez eu ainda volte pra ele no futuro.
It’s a sick joke on us that you can rewind gameplay like an emulator in this re-release, because it allows me to fail combos repeatedly until I hate everything and stop playing the game.
I remember watching someone play through this game years ago so when I saw it was ported over to the PS5 I thought I’d give it a try!
I’m a sucker for that old look of PS1 RPGs so aesthetically I think the game looks great. I also really enjoyed the turn based gameplay and how you have to time your button presses for attacks (although I must admit the fact you can rewind time with the ps5 port did lead to me cheating a bit here and there mainly just for regular enemies though).
I liked using the dragoon powers, while just looking cool they added a good variety to battles. Overall I didn’t find the game super hard a few battles here or there gave a good challenge though.
I think where the game did lose a few points for me was its writing and story. There’s a few awkwardly worded parts here and there as well as a few typos I caught. I also did lose the plot personally once I made it to the fourth and final chapter. I still wanted to see the game through of course but I felt a lot of stuff was happening that I didn’t quite understand but that might of just been me.
In the end I did end up earning the platinum trophies for it, which outside of a handful of optional stuff isn’t too hard to do. Nonetheless I did enjoy the game and would be super interested if they did a full blown remake of it someday.
I’m a sucker for that old look of PS1 RPGs so aesthetically I think the game looks great. I also really enjoyed the turn based gameplay and how you have to time your button presses for attacks (although I must admit the fact you can rewind time with the ps5 port did lead to me cheating a bit here and there mainly just for regular enemies though).
I liked using the dragoon powers, while just looking cool they added a good variety to battles. Overall I didn’t find the game super hard a few battles here or there gave a good challenge though.
I think where the game did lose a few points for me was its writing and story. There’s a few awkwardly worded parts here and there as well as a few typos I caught. I also did lose the plot personally once I made it to the fourth and final chapter. I still wanted to see the game through of course but I felt a lot of stuff was happening that I didn’t quite understand but that might of just been me.
In the end I did end up earning the platinum trophies for it, which outside of a handful of optional stuff isn’t too hard to do. Nonetheless I did enjoy the game and would be super interested if they did a full blown remake of it someday.
Até o momento se mostra um grande jogo para os padrões da época
100% a game of its time, but still manages to shine through some really rough segments and gameplay.
There's a fan made PC port that fixes a lot of the jank, I'd recommend that for anyone with a large backlog as it can shave hours of loading screens, random battles, and slow text crawl from your playthrough.
There's a fan made PC port that fixes a lot of the jank, I'd recommend that for anyone with a large backlog as it can shave hours of loading screens, random battles, and slow text crawl from your playthrough.
pretty fun. but i have a hard time playing older/retro games
Pretty decent overall.
I would say poor writing is the biggest weakness of it.
I would say poor writing is the biggest weakness of it.