I wouldn’t say it ever “opened up”. During the last, tiniest bit of the game (I’d say more like 1/20th), you got one single empty grass field to run around in with no NPC’s or anything, with a few of those crystals scattered around which were a pale imitation of FF12's hunts, in that you just talked to a crystal, went…

There are two very distinct flavors of “linear”, the first being that you have a fairly wide world map to mess about in and find different things off the beaten path before you have to move on to the next story destination, like FF1 through 9 used to be. It’s focused, but there’s still a sense of adventure and…

I’m talking about people’s attitude towards it nowadays, not the in-game implementation. Learn not to extrapolate when you shouldn’t, n00b.

2016, ladies and gentlemen. It is now taboo to call your easy mode “easy mode”.

Oh wow, I’m not even gonna try to correct any of that. You’re definitely in LOVE with drama, pretentious big words and all. I wouldn’t dare look at your tumblr blog.

Sounds like you have some issues that just made you hate anything happy altogether. That’s hardly healthy.

I wouldn’t say it’s an upgrade. The realistic lighting undoes a lot of the work that went into making the original look like a playable cartoon. The new version feels less special, and more generic.

Now I don’t know you, but that comment makes you sound like you haven’t experienced real tragedy in your life. Once you have, you’ve usually had quite enough of it to want to go over it again in your videogames.

I’ll never understand why anyone wants to experience depressing stories like this one.

Same here. First game that started the linear tunnel thing in the series or any RPG I played. Biggest game related disappointment of my life.

Height of graphics for the PSX? Not really, the very next sequel (of 5 TR games on that same system) already featured more rounded boobs.

Exactly! People give the old control method such undeserved shit, while it’s vastly superior to any of these modern spelunking games purely for the fact that it puts you in actual control, instead of reducing the entire game to a simple simon-says snap-on rail from start to end.

That’s a nicely chosen screenshot, but in motion it barely looks any different from the normal game, just a bit brighter.

Glad someone else agrees, all these people just blatantly taking someone else’s IP without permission (and those who defend them) are incredibly stupid, selfish/greedy, or all the above.

All this time I actually thought it was a guy in a suit. The fact that it isn’t simultaneously impresses and disappoints me.

What a horrible clickbait title. Nice job, Heather.

More like “how FFX happened”. Crap dumbed down game world ruined the series.

I beg to differ, BD was not up to par with traditional FF in the slightest. Let’s not even talk about the terrible time reset element. Towns were just a single screen with barely any buildings to explore (which dev thought it was a fun idea to do shops that way??) and all other areas and dungeons were incredibly…

Exactly this. NES games are great if you still have the ability to appreciate the small things, have a bit of an attention span, and haven’t come to expect ten hour voice acted cutscenes and giant explosions and yelling around every corner.

No, it’s called growing old and becoming dead inside because you have outlived your natural usefulness through a higher lifespan afforded by modern society, and your brain doesn’t become engaged by anything anymore.