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Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster - Presentation Video (30 minutes)
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I don't think it does. That cliff shot looks awful. Far too bright and the town is way too apparent. What made the original work so well was that you could just faintly see the town in the distance and it had a darker atmosphere.
There's no reason to make changes like this.
The FF1 footage already showed Garland's PS1/GBA sprite, so you're probably out of luck there.I hope that for the bosses they make them like the PSP releases:
And not like the GBA/PS1 ones:
I don't hate the sprites (even though I think they're a downgrade from Record Keeper), but it bothers me how much dead space there is on the battle screens now.
I think it would look better if they kept the scale of the scene and added lights to the darkness, like how it looks as they approach it from the snowfield. Remember, that happens AFTER they scout Narshe from the cliffs:
Still, looks a million times better than:
Wow, I somehow completely missed that this was happening. And I'm on this board every day. Nice to see this level of attention to detail in a remake, even if it's destined to disappoint many people. Super weird choice not to bring it to consoles, though.
I really can't stand the way the battle scenes look. The widescreen aspect ratio is just making the sprites look tiny in most of these cases with massive amounts of awkward looking negative space, and they haven't really done anything stylistically to try to address the big change in presentation. There's a ton of unused space and yet still there's also simultaneously not enough space for the UI to not intrude and cover characters in some cases like in the FFIV footage. It manages to be both overly crowded and utterly sparse at the same time.
The scenes in the field for the most part look pretty good, but considering the majority of the "gameplay" in these games is in the battle screens, it's not very promising.
The scenes in the field for the most part look pretty good, but considering the majority of the "gameplay" in these games is in the battle screens, it's not very promising.
these screens would have went a long way during the SE live stream earlier this month. it looks great IMO.Look at the upper left screen. You can see the town down the mountain! That's new! They are going further than I thought they would with the graphics redesign!
I love everything that I am seeing.
I wonder if they'll throw in some extras like CRT filters in addition to the fast forward stuff.
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I'm fine with the idea, but those look awful. Somewhere in the middle of the two would have been fine.
I get what they were going for but Narshe looks like a bunch of houses were dumped out of a bucket into a canyon.
My only gripe is that the top wolf is looking to have weird perspective with the background. I don't know if it was like this in the original thoughLook at the upper left screen. You can see the town down the mountain! That's new! They are going further than I thought they would with the graphics redesign!
I love everything that I am seeing.
I'm fully expecting them to bring them to at least Switch and PS4 at some point but probably as two bundles so they can release physical versions and charge $60 for each. I'm also fully expecting the trophy lists to be trash because I'm still bitter about Crystal Chronicles lol.
Anyway, the sprite work looks great to me. I really don't get the complaints.
I will buy the proper way, which means I will wait for them to be available on Switch.
And hopefully in a cart.
And hopefully in a cart.
They'd definitely have to rebalance them in FF1's case though, if they're retaining the NES/PS1 spell system. The extra GBA/PSP bosses were very much balanced around the more modern MP system, and would be damn near impossible if they were thrown in as is.
God I missed Sakaguchi's Final Fantasy... ☹️
Looks like he's good relations with Square Enix though.
Looks like he's good relations with Square Enix though.
It looks like they are explicitly trying to keep the same pixel density for all objects, rather than the mishmash of the (honestly not all bad) mobile ports, which is what they meant when they tagged them as "pixel perfect". The higher res enemy sprites, spell effects, and battle backgrounds in those versions were gorgeous.
I haven't done the math, but what is the ration between a pixel in these versions and how many pixels wide they will be on a 1080p screen? Does that make a Switch port complicated due to handheld mode needing a different scaling?
I haven't done the math, but what is the ration between a pixel in these versions and how many pixels wide they will be on a 1080p screen? Does that make a Switch port complicated due to handheld mode needing a different scaling?
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Yeah that makes sense. Too much money left on the table to keep it away from consoles.
I like the look, too. Totally fine with a revived appreciation for pixel work from a major publisher. Between this and 2D-HD we're getting love for classic art styles that I would never have predicted not long ago.
This looks fantastic! The sprite work is awesome imo, especially in the face of those awful mobile ports from the past.
I imagine this will eventually release on console...I wonder if SE is hoping for Sony, Nintendo, or Microsoft to throw some money at them before they have to bother doing it themselves?
I imagine this will eventually release on console...I wonder if SE is hoping for Sony, Nintendo, or Microsoft to throw some money at them before they have to bother doing it themselves?
I'm just glad I can finally play a version of FFV and FFVI that doesn't look ugly. I understand some people prefer the original art, but as someone who never played the originals these will do just fine for me.
I get what they were going for but Narshe looks like a bunch of houses were dumped out of a bucket into a canyon.
Is Narshe Phoenix, Arizona?
caught this info 'leak' about the platform/release dates back when the E3 trailer came out but it's from 4chan so grain of salt etc.
nothing too crazy, even that the first game releasing next month could've been a good guess, but if it is FF1 and the rest follow in this release schedule/order there might be some truth to it.
nothing too crazy, even that the first game releasing next month could've been a good guess, but if it is FF1 and the rest follow in this release schedule/order there might be some truth to it.
Here ya go. I only bothered grabbing the 720p version unfortunately -- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hqI-Z-KDH4Z_vf1laHedT9UaH1cd3Wo_/view
I feel the intent was something like this:
Considering how much they changed it they might as well have changed the canyon itself to a more fitting type of stone and made the scene more snowy to match the actual town.
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Actually, here's concept art of Narshe:
Interestingly they put smaller brown-roofed houses in the cliffs that look different from the main town and match the ones you see in the intro more. They should have just converted this to pixel art or something.
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The games certainly look decent and acceptable unlike the previous mobile atrocities.
The team that works on these things has only worked on mobile and Steam. That's it, that's the reason.
It's almost certainly not in. Final Fantasy I is back to spell charges and all the bonus content is balanced around MP (imagine going through Soul of Chaos or the Labyrinth of time with only 9 casts for each heal spell.)
Similarly the only the extra jobs for Final Fantasy V are not in the collection of Jobs they showed.
Chances are none of the previous bonus content is being ported.
I think they look great! But will they also include the additions, enhancements and features from the various rereleases?
caught this info 'leak' about the platform/release dates back when the E3 trailer came out but it's from 4chan so grain of salt etc.
nothing too crazy, even that the first game releasing next month could've been a good guess, but if it is FF1 and the rest follow in this release schedule/order there might be some truth to it.
Having to wait for my favorite game as the last release would really fucking suck so please dont be true
I feel the intent was something like this:
Considering how much they changed it they might as well have changed the canyon itself to a more fitting type of stone and made the scene more snowy to match the actual town.
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Actually, here's concept art of Narshe:
Interestingly they put smaller brown-roofed houses in the cliffs that look different from the main town and match the ones you see in the intro more. They should have just converted this to pixel art or something.
Ah I gotcha. The issue is that they aren't spread out on cliffs and ridges and are all dumped at the bottom of the canyon.
Seeing all of these next to each other, it kinda puts a damper on the whole argument about them unifying the visual style, because they really don't.1080p trailer screengrabs of all the transition segments showing the games off
Garland's NES sprite isn't drastically different from the later ones like the Emperor's is. And even with Garland, they changed the palette of the remaster sprite to match the NES one.
I could see them giving the Emperor a new one, especially because AFAIK all his appearances post-GBA have called back to the NES sprite (PSP, Dissidia, Theatrhythm, various mobile games).