Between this and Super Metroid, it's a big year for me finishing games where everything's said that's needed to be said.
I can't stop thinking about what this game would have been like to play when it came out. I admit it's hard to say this removed from decades of context, but the game feels like it knows it's genre-defining, especially with the mic drop of the ending. Having some of the most memorable and hard-hitting dialogue about grief in a game written in 1997 is just incredible.
I think two powerful markers of an amazing game are not wanting it to end (I felt this in spades) and not being able to think of 'that part' that you don't want to replay. Not only would I happily replay it today, but I'm probably gonna go install Remake.
Also Red XIII got the final hit in the game THAT'S MY BOY RIGHT THERE.
I can't stop thinking about what this game would have been like to play when it came out. I admit it's hard to say this removed from decades of context, but the game feels like it knows it's genre-defining, especially with the mic drop of the ending. Having some of the most memorable and hard-hitting dialogue about grief in a game written in 1997 is just incredible.
I think two powerful markers of an amazing game are not wanting it to end (I felt this in spades) and not being able to think of 'that part' that you don't want to replay. Not only would I happily replay it today, but I'm probably gonna go install Remake.
Also Red XIII got the final hit in the game THAT'S MY BOY RIGHT THERE.