The combat is a ton improved in this, though deeper pulls at the end are confusing without a wiki dive.

Yuffie as a character is a delightful idiot, and her goofieness helps to avoid dialog feeling weird like it could in the base game.

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Very brave to have Aerith look at Sephiroth, look at Cloud, then look directly at the camera and say.

"Cloud, your psycho ex killed me back in 1997 and everyone knows it, lets not let that happen again"

Voice acting is good, but they left grunting and bits of Japanese dialog quirks that don't really work in english, so the flow of dialog is odd. You'll have perfectly decent line reads, paced very strangely. It kinda Ruins Jessie's death.

Somebody get Koji Fox off 14 & 16 and have him oversee all SquareEnix localization.

Worked fine with PC fanpatch under Linux.

Good shit, not too long

2021

Guaranteed to get a 15-27 year old american marxist leninist to quote soviet propaganda at you, tell you that "Tankie" doesn't mean anything, and then immediately say that Stalin should have rolled the tanks all the way through western Europe.

The Remaster makes the base game look a ton less drab, still lacks soul compared to Quake 1

Its Silent Hill + Evangelion + Ghost in the Shell + Robot Lesbians

Its pretty damn good

Suplexing Spaniards has never felt this good.

Drake is at his most likable, and the plot, while stupid, has a ton of fun setpieces

Much better than the first game, Drake is a much better character, some difficulty spikes drop the game a point or so.

Drake's a bit of a stupid asshole in this, very very 7th gen.

Club Foot is a great song, and the little tweaks to the combat make this really fun.

Also seeing Mr.Scratch do a Patrick Bateman is fantastic

Poet and his muse is a great song.

PS5 version has choppy framerate on the prerendered cutscenes, but runs just fine.

The base game could have been 20% shorter, or for the Ideas for gameplay that they go into in The Signal & The Writer to get merged into that last bit. Otherwise, great stuff.

This is a playable late 90s anime with a terrible terrible English localization. Its a problem when Sephiroth is supposed to sound like an insane lunatic who's barely talking to you and the flow of dialog is so bad that it hardly ever feels like characters are actually talking to each other.

Very cool setpieces that will make you think if I was 13 and this was 1997 this would have blown my mind