Didn’t finish the 3DS version, but loved it, too. The voice acting was great (JP version)

You WHAT ? A TACTICS REMAKE ? What do you think would happen to all those delicious sprites ? Don’t you think it would be Nomuraed and become ugly AF ?
DON’T YOU DARE TOUCH FF TACTICS !

I prefer 6, but am totally with you on 7 as a great playing experience. The materia system, for instance, is absolutely wonderful. That moment when we’re prisoners of Shinra, then the cell door gets unlocked in the middle of the night and we discover trails of blood everywhere, then Sephiroth’s sword in Shinra’s…

Jason, you son of a submariner, you had me nearly cry at the Sabin/Edgar story bit ! My first FF experience and shock was FFVII, but then I did FFVI and finishing the game felt like the biggest achievement of my life. That game is a masterpiece, thanks to some epic moments of storytelling the recipe thereof Squenix…

To everybody saying “circle/cross” is reverse in Japan, yeah, that’s what annoys me with American versions. I LOVE the Circle/Cross system of Japan BUT this is a photo menu : the ONLY way to correctly navigate in a MENU is to use the directional pad, NOT action buttons.

Great article, Brian, but you could also have mentioned Japan has a magazine dedicated to arcade gaming, called Arcadia (https://www.famitsu.com/blog/arcadia/article/).

WHY IN HELL would you chose MH4U over Generations ?
What‘s wrong with you ?

It also means these retards didn’t think they could use teeth prosthesis to make it look more realistic.

Same for God of War, which is ridiculous :
at some point you have to put a caged human into the fire. It’s kind of “I shouldn’t do this, it’s bad and wrong and horrible, but I must”.
Well, in the Japanese version, they replaced that human with a low-rank monster, the kind you’ve been slaying and butchering and…

·ひねり= the DAIGO

Also, you can hide your crooked teeth.

The problem is NOT the game, it’s YOU.
Japanese cellphone games are just pachinko games with a franchise, period.
You THINK you’re playing some RPG, but you don’t. It is YOUR representation of the game (probably because of the franchise) that is wrong, not the game.
That game had elements that suck because the game sucks…

In Monster Hunter, I always start with a female and use exclusively 2-3 weapons. When I’m near completion, I create a new file and start over with a black male, and use exclusively another set of 2-3 weapons.
I’m a white male.

Cease and Desist in 3...2...

I like 3 better than 4. Better ambiance, great music and great scene introducing your powers. PS4 was like PS3 on “fun mode”, like “hey let’ go into the TV, LOL”, but in PS3, some characters have a hard time pressing the trigger. Also when you’re in a PS3 dungeon, you’re not really “enjoying” it, it’s more stressful.…

You didn’t study enough to properly understand what people write, though. That’s being illiterate. He said he’s a professor OF LITERATURE, which means he’s into story-telling stuff, which means he has a lot of experience about how a story can be well or badly told.

ARE YOU SERIOUS ?

Jason, will you include Tactics in the retrospective (it has characters of FF7, after all), or do you not consider it part of the “official” series ?

Not from me, at least. Ambiance-wise, P3 was much better than P4.