The remake (Gaming)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Thursday, April 16, 2020, 00:43 (1470 days ago) @ Cody Miller
edited by Cody Miller, Thursday, April 16, 2020, 00:46

It puts every game remake I’ve ever seen to shame. Frankly it puts a lot of GAMES to shame.

It’s not perfect. Some of the NPCs look like they could be in the PS3 era. The combat, while vastly improved, could still be even better.

But I’ve never seen a world so realized. So alive. Everything from the settings to the Numerous NPCs who carry on are super vibrant. It’s not quite on the level of the Market in Uncharted 4, but the whole game is like 85% there. So many little things add great touches. But the big grand stuff like looking up from the slums and seeing the plates of the city are awesome. The combat is light years better than the original turn based stuff. It’s action oriented and you are constantly making decisions against even normal enemies.

The story is likewise significantly expanded, and straight up altered. But once again all the characters totally come alive. It’s really fantastic. Everything appears to be custom animated: there are no “cutscenes” with people just standing there cutting back and forth like Mass Effect or HZD. Everything has performance capture.

There are dumb side quests but you can skip them and not really be behind in terms of power.

This is how you can bring a world to life. You look up and it’s somehow 7 hours later.