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OTBWY said: Almost my exact same choices except I would replace FFVII with Baten Kaitos. |
Baten Kaitos was actually written by one of the FF7 writers - Masato Kato. He worked under the legendary Yoshinori Kitase, who was the head writer and director of FF6, 7, 8, and X. Kitase and Kato also co-wrote Chrono Trigger; and on that project was also Tetsuya Takahashi (Xenogears/saga/blade).
Baten Kaitos does have more than that in common with FF7, as the designers looked to FF7's art style, and decided to replicate the rendering technique. The game was primarily developed by Tri-Crescendo, their first game; they are mostly a contract studio for budget titles and components of larger games, but do have one game that received a lot of attention - Eternal Sonata for the PS3/X360, which I would say is their undisputed masterpiece. And if you like Baten Kaittos, this one is worth checking out if you have the opportunity to do so - it's an action/encounter based RPG in the vein of the Tales games; unsurprisingly, they have been wrapped into the Tales development team in recent times.
Snoorlax said:
lol. Honestly i don't think most people today other than core FF fans would care for the original because of it's outdated graphics and turn based battles i would like to try the remake myself. |
I'm very much one of those people who really love the Final Fantasy games in their original forms. As well as Chrono Trigger. While I do enjoy some aspects of the upgraded versions, I tend to find them more of a one-off, before going back and playing the originals - that I find more satisfying... Well, with the exception of Final Fantasy 4, IMO the Gameboy Advance version is the best one. FF6 and Chrono Trigger are currently best on the Wii Virtual Console and SNES Classic - just my opinion.
While the updated version of FF7 does look very appealing, I am unsure I will enjoy it as much due to changing environments and atmosphere. I actually really like the rendered art style of the game, much more so than FFX-15's full 3D approach. Although some of the stuff I have seen from the remake looks promising, as though they're preserving a lot of that presence that the original game had. My faith in Square is a little on the negative side based on the majority of their remakes, though.
I might be in the small minority. I can accept that though =D
Best case scenario, IMO, is that both the original and remake make it to the Switch.
I don't care as much about Square's later games. But, the way I see it, Square's golden age was from about 1993 until 2000. SNES is where half of it was, but the other half many Nintendo only fans never got to experience, and I still think all of those games are great. I am not saying that FF4 and FFX were bad games, but they kind of fell outside the period of constant great releases from Square.... again just my opinion.
Square was actually very great on handhelds too in the late 80s and early 90s with Mystic Quest (Seiken Densetsu 1) and the FF Legend trilogy (SaGa 1-3).
Many of Squares early titles have yet to have had proper Western releases at any point, so importing was the only way to get them legitimately.
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