Astropez

Love it when people complain a game is too chatty but love the unending badly written walls of text of any Legend of Heroes game.

SE never cared about it (or even about their fanbase for that matters) in any of their previous releases, it's hard to believe they would ever fix it for this one.

@Zealv2 @Contes don't get put off by the old demo on Steam. The currently available game is much more pleasant and polished than that old play test. While I agree there's a missed opportunity for the mood system (personally I thought putting a mood pro shoulder button or pro cross button would have worked great), the game gives me the same chills I had as a kid playing the original. I'm almost done with it now and I have yet to trigger any of the bug the reviewer claims to have seen. There still is a little lack of polish, though nothing that can't be fixed with a patch.
Then again the original was at its time still clunky and lacked polished in some areas, despite how we might remember it to be.

I'm having a blast besides the disappointment of the mood system being removed. Looking forward to the second remake. Until then I'll replay the original LBA2, which is still one of my favourite games.

That's honestly a d*** move from Square not to have included that in the western versions either. Why they decided to go with this awful new artwork when DQ was some of the best from Toryiama is dumbfounding.

Gonna decline my copy when it arrives later and will wait for the Japanese version.

@PessitheMystic good for you

@JohnnyMind they either get a different provider or just different source. Tbh I think the Amazon.de date is more of a placeholder date rather than a real one (like when they say a game comes out on Dec. or Mai 31st.).

And you should definitely play FF9, but not that awful port we got recently. If you can emulate the original, you get better soundtrack (the ports all have sounds issues), better UI, no mix of badly upscaled backgrounds with sharp 3D. Or if you can, FF9 PC modded with the original UI and the Moguri Mod.

Loved SaGa since the first on the Gameboy. It's also the only game series that Square has that they haven't ***** up yet.
I'm really glad they give the license a fair shot, and I'm looking forward to a remaster of Unlimited SaGa. Despite somehow being considered the black sheep of the series, it's actually the most complete and interesting of them, though the first hours are really hardcore.

@JohnnyMind funny, Amazon.de places the physical release on the 5th of January!

Really looking forward to that, the original is my favourite P&C game and one of my favourite games of all times alongside FF9 and Link's Awakening

Some people must have a very sad life for complaining about such things...

@GoldenSunRM issue with 9 is really the same as Trails: one chapter, one character, one part of town/prison. Adding the girl who keeps telling you that she knows everything but can't tell you (she doesn't want rather), and the moral of each chapter (really? You open a flower shop to help poor people out of their poverty instead of actually giving them what they need ????). The action part wasn't that bad but god the writing was so *****. I know NES games with much better writing and character development

@GameName every Ys up to Seven were similar to Oath in Felgahna. Seven stirred things a bit but 8 and 9 were definitely different kind of games as the team in charge of Trails started to pollute the series and Falcom interpreted (wrongly) the good sales as Ys fan wanting more Trails and less Ys.
On Switch you can find the best of the old school Ys, Origins. It's often on sales on the eShop

How is the script compared to 8-9? They were the definite "no-go" for me, marking a clear line from "We don't want to do Ys anymore" to "We want to make Trails but action". And god I hate Trails.

I see they backed from the party-based combat which is a good start, but are the dialogs bloated like in Ys 8-9 and all Trails, or is it back to the good old Ys where action and exploration were king?

I wish gaming journalist would stop spreading rumours and behave as if they were actual journalists, who should rely solely on facts.

Fact: Nintendo files a patent lawsuit against PocketPair. We do not know which patents

Not Fact: this entire article claiming to know which patents and throwing oil on the fire.

Now if it turns out to be true then the fact should be announced when the knowledge is actually there, but at this stage, articles like this are really just pure *****.
I guess Game Journalism is really not about truth anymore (like regular journalism?) but only about what makes more clicks. What world do we live in.

@Pillowpants the newest ones (Emerald and Scarlet) are more friendly for newcomers, especially because they explain their mechanics a lot better than the previous ones where everything is either not or poorly explained.

While I'm happy this games get a full remake, I'd rather have had the two missing remasters, especially UnlimiteD which got bashed for no good reasons. It's a really deep and complete game.

Crazy how every Nintendo-LEGO Line is the stuff of nightmares. I'm surprised Nintendo is willing to even go with it seeing how protective of their brands they are.

So looking forward to that, though I am sad that Sakaguchi decided to publish it with Square instead of someone else. I hate to give my money to Square.

@FX29
Actually, the remasters for BK made a lot more sense than XenoSaga, as well as losing that horrible English dub. First because BK has a lot more praise overall, including on its battle system, whereas XenoSagas are basically glorified Visual Novels where the battle system is so poor it's embarrassing and the player is interrupted every 10min with 2h of cutscenes. Secondly, the story for BK is complete, which is not the case of Xenosaga who has so many plotholes. XenoSaga got somewhat of a reputation from a loud minority, but they're actually far from being good games besides the technical side.

@JohnnyMind
The physical version for Switch is US/Japan/Asia. The physical version for PS is Europe/Japan/Asia. At least according to the official website. Why they made the distinction Europe/US for Switch/PS is but a mystery

I hope they'll finally put the remaster of the first two FDC on sales. I still can't believe it wasn't ever already

@HIGHscores85 There is one but as far as it's planned, it's only for the backers of the Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/revolution-software/broken-sword-reforged-collectors-edition/rewards