07-28-2024, 07:08 PM
Beat Tales of Symphonia Remastered. Which is actually the first time I beat the game because I never finished it on the GameCube.
TOS has its ups and downs though, some mid dungeons and weak segments but it holds up well in 2024. It takes a lot of cues from the early Final Fantasy / Mana games both in map design and story but it mixes it with some decent character development and I would say higher stakes overall. The battle system is very fun also.
It starts out easy, then gets harder but near the end the difficulty takes a nosedive once Raine has her best healing spells and items/skills that replenish her TP automatically you basically never die and can power through anything and with 4 character slots there is basically always room for her in the party.
Graphics wise this "remaster" is just an upres and I think some visual effects from the NGC are missing like the cel shaded outlines and it's 30fps instead of 60fps. The music is great but the sound quality is a bit eh. It crashed on me 2 or 3 times but overall it is completely playable from start to finish.
There was always the debate if TOS is actually good or just overrated because it was one of the few GameCube RPGs.
I would say parts of it are underrated because very few people made it to the second world where the game really gets going.
Started to play Sonic Super Stars next. Generic 2.5D Sonic game. Level design is fine but I can see why Mario Wonder totally burried this.
Switched over to Tactics Ogre: Reborn. Cool how you tag along with some much better characters early on in the game who explain how everything works.
Much better than a lengthy tutorial. I've never played the original but it looks to be remastered beautifully.
TOS has its ups and downs though, some mid dungeons and weak segments but it holds up well in 2024. It takes a lot of cues from the early Final Fantasy / Mana games both in map design and story but it mixes it with some decent character development and I would say higher stakes overall. The battle system is very fun also.
It starts out easy, then gets harder but near the end the difficulty takes a nosedive once Raine has her best healing spells and items/skills that replenish her TP automatically you basically never die and can power through anything and with 4 character slots there is basically always room for her in the party.
Graphics wise this "remaster" is just an upres and I think some visual effects from the NGC are missing like the cel shaded outlines and it's 30fps instead of 60fps. The music is great but the sound quality is a bit eh. It crashed on me 2 or 3 times but overall it is completely playable from start to finish.
There was always the debate if TOS is actually good or just overrated because it was one of the few GameCube RPGs.
I would say parts of it are underrated because very few people made it to the second world where the game really gets going.
Started to play Sonic Super Stars next. Generic 2.5D Sonic game. Level design is fine but I can see why Mario Wonder totally burried this.
Switched over to Tactics Ogre: Reborn. Cool how you tag along with some much better characters early on in the game who explain how everything works.
Much better than a lengthy tutorial. I've never played the original but it looks to be remastered beautifully.