Why does no one ever talk about how dopey, in a bad way, the writing is for this one and the first game? Besides bad grammar and lots of misspelling, the dialogue just feels childish and awkward.
People do talk about it, especially hardcore fans. It's mostly down to the localization. A lot of people give it a pass because while it's not amazing, for the time it was still decent. Localizations in the 90's were awful by today's standards. The localization team also had a really short deadline with an enormous amount of text hat wasn't even formatted well enough to tell who was saying what. The localization team had to play through the game and every bit of it 3 times.
Overall though, it doesn't completely ruin the experience. The story and writing is still mostly pretty good.
I can't believe how addictive and fun this shit is. The story is surprisingly great. The whole draw of the game (a big castle and you recruit up to 108 party and support members to fill it) doesn't even "start" until several hours in, but the story is so good leading up to that it doesn't feel like it starts slow. Character designs and pixel art are great, lots of personality.
Combat is very simple, easy and in some ways shallow but it's still somehow fun. Basically the Materia system meets a metric fuckton of party composition possibilities. You basically never grind ever either.
This evidence for what good story pacing and characters will do for a game.
other than some graphical and battle system changes its a step down from the first one for me. It gets tedious at times and drags on. The war sequences are really boring and the recruiting doesn't feel as special. I can see why people love it but I'd recommend starting with the first game
I’ve heard a lot of ppl express this same opinion. It’s definitely convinced me to not skip the first one. Plus I heard if you have save data of the first game it transfers over to the second. I love when a series does that.
god, please. the original translation was so awful it made the game unplayable for me. i just hope this is actually a remaster and doesn't change too much gameplay stuff for "modern audiences" or whatever.
cautiously optimistic about the remaster. Looks like it's in the spirit of the game and thankfully they do not touch the character sprites, which were perfect as-is. Definitely a game that deserves a bigger audience than it often gets these days so hopefully Konami actually starts doing good things for once and this turns out well.
Overall though, it doesn't completely ruin the experience. The story and writing is still mostly pretty good.
Combat is very simple, easy and in some ways shallow but it's still somehow fun. Basically the Materia system meets a metric fuckton of party composition possibilities. You basically never grind ever either.
This evidence for what good story pacing and characters will do for a game.