SO2 paradox: if you play the game right by optimizing all skills, you end up not getting to play the game bc you’re OP. It’s still so much fun, I’m glad it aged this well. Set your team’s strategy, sit back and feel like a general. Or an admiral. Admiral Ronyx.

This review contains spoilers

It’s a faithful update to one of the greatest games of all time. We get fast travel, a limit break system, enemy weaknesses shown on-screen, and similar quality of life features that are familiar and complementary to the core game. And you get to fight Culex twice!

This is a massively fun and very uniquely structured JRPG. My nitpick is that most of the combat is easy, except once in a while there is a difficult battle. It’s a small gripe in the big picture though. The ensemble cast of heroes and episodic story works for playing in small bursts. That aspect of it reminds me of Valkyrie Profile. Frequently turning over characters keeps gameplay fresh since they all have different styles. The soundtrack will be stuck in your head for at least weeks after you’re finished.

This is the one that does it for me. FF7 is exactly the spot where I need to be rubbed.

It really might have been a fun game to play without the draw/junction system.

It’s Final Fantasy Tactics meets Age of Empires. One of the things I love about this era of games is that genres had not yet been well defined, and developers could get away with doing things like this.

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’m lucky enough to have only played Legendary Edition and I think there
Is absolutely nothing wrong with the ending. As it was amended, it’s a good ending. There, I said it.

I understand why Joe Camel had to be banned because the Illusive Man makes smoking look so cool, I almost bought a pack.

I wish I could get that feeling of the first time
I had control of the Normandy to explore the galaxy again. It must be something like the first puff of crack.

Dumb apples? C’MON, MAN. A lot of fun, but too repetitive to get very far into the missions before finishing the story.

You all loved this game at the time and you know it.