Difference being, Pokemon games are solely about printing money. They already build hype, and polishing doesn’t matter when sales always go through the roof.

Luke! One of the Kotaku OGs. It’s been a pleasure, and best of luck in your future endeavors.

Paper Mario’s font (whatever the latest game is) is basically SMRPG’s but modernized. Would work fine here.

I’m sure anything looks cooler than mobile bland. The Paper Mario series uses a fun font that is basically a modern version of what SMRPG used.

But the FONT. Why are devs insistent on removing the cool fonts from these RPG remakes and replacing them with dead mobile game text? Stop doing this! The og fonts add to the charm of the game!

I don’t care about justifying ratings. The new God of War series is also brutally violent and whatnot but it’s handled, well, maturely. The opening of FF16 here felt more like the og God of War series with that early/mid-00's EXTREEEEME vibe.

Knew about #1. That #2 is the problem, because it definitely felt like a playable cutscene until that point. Which, yeah, was even more frustrating because even when you “win” you lose so what’s the point?

He’s about to pass out and then he hears the voice and sees a humanoid manifest in front of him. Suddenly, Ifrit. It was definitely intentionally unclear! Not to mention the intro is framed such that he’s remembering the fight between the two, which doesn’t make sense unless he was right there somehow.

And if you didn’t mash enough and in the right spot you got an automatic game over at the end. I didn’t appreciate that.

> It actually made me not want to play Final Fantasy XVI anymore. Until the next day came and all I wanted to do was keep playing Final Fantasy XVI.

If you’ve never played it you probably shouldn’t comment...

Nomura is an absolute crazy person.

Started the demo last night. Thoughts:

Kotaku still trying to fight this weird battle, I see.

Unacceptable how this is still an issue in 2023.

Oh interesting. Well that could still count as “dying”. 

He “killed” her but she was revived via Jenova cell injections, just like Cloud and Zack. Just adding more detail to the original story.

Yeah, I read the article and then watched it and I’m not seeing the big deal. This Remake series has expanded on almost everything from the original game. In the original, we know Tifa is near-fatally wounded, but it’s never explained how she survived. This seems like it’s filling that in: maybe Seph’s implying she…

Haha, they’re really making this into a stealth sequel series, aren’t they? Remake and Rebirth taken literally.

iirc, the common read is the Sephiroth from the end of Remake *is* Prime!Sephiroth from the OG timeline who somehow made it back, and Aeris has some intuition of the OG events, which is why she has hunches and feelings about things she shouldn’t.