But… the ending was perfect.

I clicked on this dumb article to make this comment almost word for word. Thank you for taking one for the apparently very small team.

The original Clash of the Titans is a mixed bag, but I'm a Harryhausen enthusiast so I have trouble being too hard on it. I never minded Bubo — of course owls were Athena's, and while it's a stretch that she has some mechanical ones lying around, it did make an interesting effect. I definitely liked Bubo as a kid.

Though I'm admittedly uneducated in the subject, I would argue that Greco-Roman myth is pretty ingrained in our culture, and that most people know at least the basics of it (thank the Italian Renaissance, I guess).

Well, I can't really discuss the flaws of this movie in particular without having seen it. I can say that I played all the God of War games and loved every second, screwed up mythology and all, but the ads I've seen for Gods of Egypt just make me feel tired. There's such a wealth of material that hasn't been heavily…

I'm not arguing with your point in general, but I would far prefer a movie about the strange figures of Egyptian myth than yet another modern sensibilities treatment.

I just don't see the point of making movies based on fascinating mythologies if they aren't going to be be about the stories and characters in question.

I don't think they altered it exactly, it's just bugged. The GBA version is indeed, probably, the best version of FF4, but nothing beautiful can be flawless…

I should have phrased that more precisely. "If you don't mind ATBs hating you."

Everyone who isn't Rosa misses more often than not, which I like. It lends her some implied character background.

If you hate ATBs.

They removed Cecil's ability to equip a bow in both (or two of the however many) recent fancy remakes. I have never felt so betrayed by a Nintendo DS.

FFIV was my first "real" RPG, and I didn't really know how to play them yet. I was like, I dunno, eleven?

WHY DO WE EVEN HAVE THAT DEMON WALL

It's like they were introduced and Shadow misheard his name the weirdest way possible. "Ah, he must keep his house key under the doormat."

It's an awkwardly obvious pun no matter its transmission method.

There's something Lawnmower Manesque about it, isn't there? They just really liked the title!

Too little, too late.

My knowledge of video game history is far from all-encompassing, but I want to say that the the unreliable narrator trend really took off with Square's late 90s offerings. Before FF7, RPG protagonists (a protagonist subset, but a representative one) tended to just have mysterious health-consequence-free amnesia, which…