I KNOW I'm gonna get my ass beaten for this but I really with this game was closer to SaGa Frontier than it was Scarlet Grace as far as Progression and character recruitment goes. I have only done Bonnie & Formina which I honestly think is a GREAT start point, you have lots of variety, you have 6 world options it's really solid and both characters are really cute.

The battle system for this game is great and I feel like it's something that just constantly gets better the more SaGa games exist.

If I were to give some advice for fans that want to do more than one playthrough(This game is designed around that) do not do Ameya's story first do literally anyone elses and then do hers.

This remake is one of the few remakes I find to be pretty remarkable as far as, respect to the original material, everything new added does not hurt the original story but instead enhances it, some of the new things added because of these also enhances characters(I think Junpei bros might be happy), how good most of the English cast is(Only one I find to be rough is Akihiko), tweaking Baton Pass from Persona 5(I like how it's a simple pass with no stat boosts).

This to me really seems like a remake that only had some MILD interruption from investors which is obviously the elephant in the room the DLC and how egregious it is, the DLC alone keeps this remake from being a 5 for me and not because of "The Answer" being DLC which IS fucked up but the fact that the original soundtrack wasn't included. So If you don't vibe with the remixed music(I don't) and if you aren't on PC then you're screwed. On the subject of negative things though it REALLY is unfortunate that they beat into our heads that it is a faithful remake of P3 original/FES but they decided that P3 MC had to be stuck with one Weapon type which is unfortunate. The changes to Light and Dark are nice and this makes Koromaru arguably one of the best party members where in the original and PSP you would only really use him for grinding and even then I didn't really th ink it was worth it.

tl;dr I think this is a solid remake, I think the new stuff added overall is good, this remake doesn't offend me cause I think it's one of the few games that didn't need a remake and the originals are still great/worth playing(specifically PSP).

Only thing legit preventing it from being a 5 is the forced music if you aren't on PC lol. Looking forward to see how they handle P2, Raidou and other remakes.

I have had over 5 playthroughs of this game between my first playthrough on 3DS and all the other versions, I never actually got around to playing the Definitive Edition till recently and man, They weren't lying when they said this was a "Definitive Edition" except for ONE thing I'll get to later.

Battle Speed selector is great, Fun-Size forge being used anywhere(Also being able to get buyable items even if you don't have them on hand), I played with JP voices and thought they were great, I actually used a mod for more variety in the music which if you're on PC I highly recommend that but if not the music is fine.

As for that one thing I have an issue with is The World of Tickington and really it's just a small nitpick, in the DS version of the game when you went there if you for example enter Dragon Quest IV world, the cast would look like DQ IV sprites and so on, was such a cool little feature that I'm sad is gone from the definitive edition, also I'm sad the monsters in Tickington weren't animated like the DS remake Dragon Quest games but outside of that it's really cool to see this brought back for console!

Onto the meat, I feel like this cast truly is an all-star cast, No one is really wasted and everyone contributes something. It's REALLY REALLY hard for me to choose a favorite character in this game it's just such a well balanced cast. Probably my favorite in any video game. I also like the small things they do with the Hero in cutscenes to kinda give him some flavor.

There is so much I want to say about this game but it really is a near perfect game and it's flaws don't really bug me that much, I have an even bigger appreciation for this entry after playing through every single mainline DQ(Including DQ X) It really does reward those who have played every entry.

Here is to hoping that in the future we get older DQ games preserved and on modern hardware so more people can experience this legendary series.

I think this game is solid and I like how Peach is kinda just doing her own thing and nothing is tied to Bowser or Mario.

Where I have issues with this game is just how annoying it is to 100% the game and how anti-replay friendly it feels? For example You have to collect these "Sprites" and there is like 9 per level(Off the top of my head) say you miss the 7th one, You have to just straight up replay the entire stage again, There is no checkpoint system or anything and it's actually hard to die so I don't know if dying would make this easier.

I dunno I think Super Princess Peach was a more enjoyable game but I hope regardless of how this game is received they don't give up on giving Peach as well as Daisy and other characters more games.

I just wanna comment on some personal stuff that I think only I would care about but, This game probably has the most unique black NPCs in any Japanese game I've played lol, none of them are using that fuck ass Kilmonger haircut either.

Okay onto the actual game, I would assume a lot of people would not like the open world cause it's a bunch of checklist stuff rather then an emphasis on exploration(This isn't an issue for me at all I prefer this if we aren't gonna get traditional world maps), I think the characterization of some characters mainly Yuffie and Red XIII were really strong in this game, Yuffie was one of my favorites before but Red XIII is up there they did a fantastic job with him.

Lastly, I did know about the contents of the ending before the game dropped and without spoiling anything I think the ending is gonna be a huge jumping off point for a lot of people, I didn't mind the ending but that's probably because interviews prepared me for it lmao

Still a bit mixed on how I feel with the execution of this remake but hey maybe we will get that faithful one 20 years later haha.

Not sure if this is my favorite out of the verdite trilogy or my least favorite, There is a ton of cool stuff in this game, I think the narrative is really neat, the atmosphere and music are great but damn, the forced grinding section kinda blew and the forced wait kinda blew as well.

I am curious if Dark Souls 2 took a lot of inspiration from this game between the Petrified obstacles, the way some NPCs work(I guess this is universal in all Souls games), the way some shit doesn't even flinch. It's really interesting. I will say out of all the King's Field games I've played and if you just wanted to play one of them I think 3 is the way to go. It's just linear enough but not too linear and the balancing doesn't seem too crazy.

This game is definitely a lot better than the first one, It was rough in the beginning I felt like "Man am I gonna be able to complete this game" but once I got passed the first few hours, got some Crystal flasks, got my fountain going things really came together. I hate to do the "Dark souls" comparison but these games most likely inspired it. That being said, This game has some cool interconnectivity, once you've explored a good chunk of the world and unlocked some shortcuts stuff starts connecting together and you get a "Eureka moment" similar to how you would when you figured out which areas connected to what in Dark Souls.

This game also as NPCs again function very similarly to the NPCs in Dark Souls, you talk to them and exhaust their dialogue, they give you hints, exposition or quests. This game is just really neat and impressive for a 1995 PS1 game.

Also some advice if you play this game definitely keep a Bow on you and do not sell your Magic crystals unless you know what you're doing.