Thanks so much for the no dialog volume tip. I bounced off the demo but wasn't able to but my finger on why. Going back for another try and reading instead worked so much better for me!

This game deserve more attention!!

It does, but is unlikely to happen given the whole rights issue

Agreed

Xenogears deserves even better

⁠​⁠@@Keyhwhat whole rights issue? square enix owns rights to Xenogears, Takahashi’s team doesn’t own the rights to it.

Xenogears arc the lad all ps1 rpg 👍

I have never seen anything like that before. Super impressed by the effort and resources put into this remake project.

@@acidwizard6528 the only other game I've seen doing that was Ultimate Marvel VS Capcom 3 where you could change individual voices for Capcom characters to japanese and mix up with the english voices.

Honestly makes me feel like they learned from the Crisis Core remake to me. Lmao.

This is amazing! Going to totally use different voices for Nedians, Expelians and Ten Wise Men

Wish they did the same with music themes for example I want old battle music with the arranged world map music.

It's not at all a 2D game though. Only the characters are 2D, everything else is 3D.

it's not made by sq. but by original tri-ace devs and their company

Yeah I think they came out before the atelier series

You say that but he actually has played the original before but he deleted the video because he couldn’t get past the first 30 minutes

Yeah I’m ready to play it too can’t wait idk why I’m doing this because I haven’t even finished Spider-Man 2 yet gosh there’s way too many amazing games coming out this year lol 😂

It’s the same story as the original so

there were no changes to the story. personally? I have an emotional attachment to the main characters and the story contains lots of exciting and emotional moments. it isn't as deep or well written as some other rpg greats, but what it has going for it is the interpersonal drama and the emotions. also plenty of romance.

Ive completed 100% tactics ogre and id suggest following a guide to maximize ur time. Its a loveable game but it can suck out so much time that u could just give it up.. Itd take 3 rewinds of playing (one complete,two from 3 chapter) instead of five of six. Also, do 100 floor dungeon on second run thoigh or even first, otherwise ure gonna need to climb up x3 or x5 times instead of x2+x1 with papers.

Trust me, Star Ocean 2, even the original game for the PS1, is the best one in the series. It was the only game to actually get a direct sequel in the form of Star Ocean: Blue Sphere, for the Gameboy color (and later a remake for mobile phones), which is just testament of how rich this game's world is.

This game is great but a tad complex. The rest of the games are lacking according to most people

I wanted to ask the same thing!

That CRT should be in every old school package as an option

this is actually 2.5D it’s different than HD2D

SO2 is the best in the series.

Its really good series worth of checking

the devs said in early interviews, that they completely rebalanced the game compared to the original and made the game quite alot harder at the second half of the game, than the original difficulties, which was also a reason for it, why they added into the game new equipment and treasure chests ect. to help players to compensate for this change... however, just alone the massive changes to the combat system alone will make the combats in the game more diffcult (or easy in regard of how well you can make usage of it to your advantage), compared to the original, when you consider the implementation of the Break System, Dodge System and Assault Action System as also the fact, that Magic Spells dont stop time for you and your enemies anymore, the animations happen in real time now, which makes the whole combat flow more fast paced and without any annoying interruptions. The original had already with Unlimiter active one of the hardest boss battles in PS1 rpg history and Im exited to see, how the bosses will be in the remake, if everythign, especially from the second half of the game onwards on, will be significatly more diffult, than in the original. Plus theres also now this time a much better craftign system in the game, which allows to make much more powerful characters , so we will sink into the game again hundreds over hundreds of hours to min max our characters for the ultimate team that has even a chance to beat the strongest enemies at max Level 255 on highest difficulty :D

But levelign this time surely will be also alot faster, when you can this time have Exp Boni for fightning many battles faster after another in a strong of fights, to increase the Exp/Fol Boni, which is also a very nice addition from previous SO games, to make it easier to gain larger amounts of Exp n Fol against the special enemies in the colusseum to level up faster, which give the most exp in the game, or postgame in the bonus dungeon as usual in SO games, the Metal Scumbags :D which are the best to farm (if you can even kill them first, which requires first to be fast enough to hit them even lol)

I STILL LOST to Allen the boss that kidnaps Rena on EARTH mode on this version and yes on Rena game Allen in 1 HIT on Earth mode can hit Claude for 150+ HP a hit and a lv 1 Claude ONLY has like 150 HP in the first place. So yes without 1000+ Str weapons Claude/Rena even the Cross Cave enemies on Earth mode can kill a lv 8 Claude/Rena/Celine party in 1 HIT. As for the Scumbag Slayer needed to HIT those Metal ones its at first a MISSABLE weapon meaning if you don't do a optional quest for it then the only Scumbag Slayer weapon you can first get requires to KILL the Cave of Trials 6th floor boss first and those Metal ones only take 1 HP in damage without it. But yes the Raddle NPC quest to get the Scumbag Slayer BEFORE Bowman can first join the party can be permanently missable the one in the Cave of Trials floor 6 after its boss is killed isn't.

Divine Force was great. I hope you enjoy it when you eventually get to it.

@@kevinstreetgamingI heard it was the best star ocean in a while. It’s a shame it barely sold. It’s a strange thing, how gaming is so popular now yet jrpgs are less popular than ever it feels.

@@jairekambui7738 It was my favorite game that released last year. Yeah, it's really a shame. Nowadays there are so many jrpgs that fly under the radar.

@@jairekambui7738 5 was awful, and that leaves psp remakes and 4 having to keep hype alive for it. 6 was okay but you can really feel the low budget.

@@kevinstreetgaming I'm playing 6 right now and it's not doing so well for me. everything just dies in 1 hit and bosses have dialogue and they can't even finish it before combat ends.

Grinding is lame and ruins the fun of jrpgs

Yeah, you are probably right about this. I was playing on Galaxy, and it was piss easy until I got to Krosse Cave. I actually had to think a little bit about what I was doing at that point. I haven't actually tried Universe difficulty myself.

I STILL LOST to the Cross Cave enemies WITHOUT 1000 Str weapons Claude/Rena on EARTH MODE in 1 hit so don't go their WITHOUT those weapons on Galaxy/Universe mode in fact due to that you start the full game with access to the Item creation skills its possible to be at lvs over 50 Marvel Sword Claude Bloody armor HIM and nothing will damage Claude ever on Galaxy/Universe mode. But the HP drain effect of the Bloody armors can still kill you BUT if you can actually Bloody armor a lv 50+ Claude on Universe mode and GIVE the Marvel Sword itself a HP drain effect (damage by at least 20%) then that armor can't really kill you once Claude does 9999 damage PER hit.

​@@veghesther3204 Well yes that's why I ONLY enter Cross Cave IF I get the Marvel Sword from the mystery chest, else I retry. Then I level Claude and Rena to lvl 50 ASAP BEFORE entering Cross Cave. Else even on EARTH MODE I die in 1 hit in Cross Cave. But later I will stack Bloody Armor on everyone ASAP else I just die even on EARTH MODE.

I actually DO plan on Bloody armoring a lv 100 Claude Opera and Bowman for the Hoffman ruins part of the full game and plan on NEVER removing it

I'm getting mine on 11-2-23. Super Mario RPG is next. Then Trails through Daybreak.

"ps5 for my kids" 🤣🤣

No, the strength of pre-rendered backgrounds is not the fixed camera angles. You can do that that with completely 3D environment too, and even do more cinematic things with the camera that’d be harder (but not impossible) with pre-rendered. The strength of doing pre-rendered backgrounds is it allows the developers to do something that looks better without using as much space and without it being as taxing on the hardware. That’s really it. If old PSX and Sega Saturn Resident Evil used fully 3D backgrounds instead of the pre-render backgrounds it would’ve probably have run terribly, it would lacked the amount of detail they got in, and on the PSX at least the environmental textures would’ve looked all wavy like PSX 3D environments do. It’s just a less taxing way of doing things while being able to make everything look good. The camera aspect is completely unconnected. There are still games using pre-rendered backgrounds. That recent Diablo 2 remake has pre-rendered backgrounds. That Fantasian game Mistwalker made a couple years ago for Apple Arcade has pre-rendered backgrounds made from scanned diorama miniatures. There’s a Resident Evil throwback called Alisa with pre-rendered backgrounds. I wouldn’t be too surprised if we start seeing it more games with pre-rendered backgrounds over the next few years

@@DIOBrando-ij2bp My point was about the strength of pre-rendered backgrounds at their core was the fixed angle and the artistry direction that it gave the developers. I wasn't talking about the benefits of it back in the day. And I really doubt that with 4090 RTX's any screen that's pre-rendered wouldn't be possible equally rendered lol. I really doubt that you will ever see the return of pre-rendered backgrounds for that reason. They will just use what pre-rendered backgrounds did (fixed camera angle, tonality of a scene etc) and do that but rendered. This Remake honestly kind of does that with the way the camera is programmed. It's kind of dogmatic and overly obsessive just wanting pre-rendered backgrounds for the sake of adhering to the past. And if a game does exactly what a pre-rendered background game did in terms of gameplay, scene design, story etc but it's rendered then it doesn't get a pass. Looking at it that way is kind of simplistic I'd say.

@@mikev8746 First of all, yes, I agree that the benefit of fixed camera angles artistically is that devs can then frame images in ways that supplement storytelling and create far more dynamic visual storytelling than an average player will be able to replicate with a free camera. However, as you said, that's not really a pre-rendered background benefit. It's a fixed camera benefit. There's another, more compelling reason why pre-rendered backgrounds can be a better avenue for devs, depending on the project. Given the benefits of what pre-rendered backgrounds provide (far less taxing on hardware), they will *always* (regardless of hardware specs) allow devs to pack more detail into environments and make them look even more impressive and realistic than a fully 3D environment rendered in real-time. There will always be a ceiling on how much detail and at what level of fidelity a modern machine--even maxed out--can handle with stable performance (30 or 60fps target, etc.). That problem goes away with pre-rendered backgrounds, which provides devs with the freedom to put far more detail into their character models (which are rendered in real-time). You then have the benefit of maxing out your detail, realism, etc., on the environments without taxing the hardware while giving yourself more room to improve your character models to make them look even better.

@@michaelcoraybrown I mean yes I can't argue when you put it that way. Obviously maybe there's some level of visual fidelity we haven't even seen yet in a games presentation that pre-rendering would facilitate. And if a developer has that ambition I would love to see it. I'm a huge fan of what games like FF8 and FF9 did with that tool set. Especially FF8. It makes it kind of sad that they can't seem to remaster those games properly and make those pre-rendered backgrounds sharp without using AI (which just doesn't give me the desired results personally). Another game that is very impressive is the Blade Runner game, again pre-render. But the remasters always end up being kind of blurry. It's still enjoyable because you get to play a game that uses a special technique that's rarely used these days. But that's the extent of it. But what I meant was that I really haven't seen a developer pursue such ambitions and that the level of presentation they do go for (still very detailed) can be easily done with ingame rendering these days. And that in a way those games that still have the fixed camera angles and emphasize the tone through that and the placement of the scene/set and what not. They kind of give you that thing which pre-rendered background games used to give you. So in the absence of that for the time being. I think we can view remakes like this one as a sort of inbetween. If you get what I'm trying to say here. Obviously I haven't played it yet but from the trailers and demo I did get that feel. Now even though I view it this way. I would obviously voice my interest in something like what you proposed, being done aswell in future games. Maybe that's even better.

@@mikev8746 The major issue is that even with real-time 3D graphics being as advanced as they are today, there are still limits to the level of realism you can achieve in rendering a large environment with billions of polygons, lighting and shadows, ambient occlusion, etc. at 60 frames per second. When you only have to render one frame, instead of thousands upon thousands, you can crank up the effects that achieve that level of realism to the absolute max. If you are rendering in real-time, there are certain things you have to sacrifice to achieve acceptable performance at higher frame rates. We already see this as an option given to players to play in "performance mode" for higher frame rates but lower detail/fidelity or in "graphics mode" for higher detail/fidelity but lower frame rates. You can go "even further beyond" when you take that environment to a single frame rather than 30 frames per second.