I’m not sure why he finds it so hard, I think it has aged really really well. It doesn’t really have many or any clunky difficult mechanics. Gameplay is fast(for a turn based jrpg), simple, doesn’t require long explanations or a guide book, and you don’t have to grind like other jrpgs as long as you kill everything on your way to the next story point.

It still looks good and the music is good too. Unless you just don’t like 2d sprites or turn based combat even if it’s easy, I will wager you’d still enjoy it.

Camera controls or the lack of them? Ff7/8/9 had a fixed camera everywhere but the world map.

You know it’s not the same person posting every time

Some people have moved passed thinking about it. Others have just started. Its a growing sentiment and more people are starting to feel it.

I’m still on my zenfone 6, and my next will be something sony. I don’t really want a low-mid end phone but if the xperia 10 is the best I can get then that’s what I’ll get.

Nothing like a good ole music genre debate. People acting like classic rock was “classic” the day it was recorded and ignoring all the other sub categories those 60s/70s/80s songs would have fallen into. Rock is a broad fucking category including every genre of rock under it including “nu-metal” and 20 year old music is now old, aka classic.

I remember hearing smells like teen spirit on my local classic rock station for the first time in the mid '00s and thinking this will rustle a few feathers. Its securely classic rock now lol. Even if it’s grunge.

So is Paul McCartney.

That’s just not true at all. Literally one of the most famous games ever made remade with modern graphics couldn’t be successful? When squenix announced a remake, and the internet exploded, that is exactly the game everyone expected it to be. Even at launch day we still thought the story would be mostly unchanged.

I’m not arguing in favor of keeping turn based combat.

How exactly would keeping the original story have made a remake less successful? New players would have played it either way, and I find it very hard to believe that the number of fans of the original who would have avoided the game due it being “the same game” outnumber the number of fans who were sold a remake and didn’t find out until half way through that this was a different game.

As I said in 2002: this story is awesome. But they have cubes for hands. We have the ps2 now. I hope I can play this game again someday without cubes for hands. This is not that game.

Still only cubes for hands.

I like it. Almost all jrpgs and anime these days are targeted at children or adults who like anime for children. I miss when there was more content made to appeal to adults.

No one fails to see that after playing the game. As the person above you said, the game title was deceptive. We were told it was a remake, but were given something else instead.