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Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age
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Homeworld
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Homeworld isn't the best RTS I've ever played, but it's probably the coolest. Full 3D space movement that's intuitive? Dope ass ship designs? Came out in the late 90s? Has a really tragic yet hopeful revenge story? I mean really what else could you even want!

Well, for one I'd want the game to be just a bit faster. But also slower. Faster between "encounters", as moving from your mothership to enemies takes the majority of the playtime, and faster when building (i swear half the game is just waiting for things to happen). But slower in combat, where if you look away for a second (likely when you take out your phone to kill the time as your fleet moves to engage the enemies halfway across the.. space?) you're likely to lose half your ships, or when wanting to change orders, if you misclick, you might again lose half your ships.

I guess this is all par for the course for many old games, but really none of this felt like an issue until the last few missions, which spike the difficulty in such a way that really shows the game's flaws upfront. The pre-penultimate mission is set up in a way that almost expects you to grind, with tens of enemy ships and almost no resources (which can be automatically harvested). I didn't finish the last mission, because if I wanted to push through I'd need to spend hours and hours on that mission.

Still, I respect the game. It's well written and technically an insane achievement. I just wish it wasn't annoying in a time sensitive way.

I was gonna write up a whole blog post about this, but upon reflection I don't have a whole lot to say. It's a good remake, one that updates the source material so it feels like it hasn't aged a day, but keeps the core of the original intact. For ex, cutting out transphobic jokes, and adding more opportunities to bond with your team, are both much appreciated changes.

That being said there's some things that I feel got lost in translation. For one, a couple of the original's animated cutscenes are now in engine, and every time that happened they were just much blander, which was disappointing. That's my one concrete criticism.

Beyond that, I don't like new tartarus as much as old tartarus. It feels like there's too much going on, like the game is pulling away from its dungeon crawler roots, and it just makes it a little tough to completely chill out while exploring like I did in the original. Plus your teammates talk a LOT more, which went from endearing to annoying after about 30 hours of it.

The other criticism I have is just about the general feeling of the game. Persona 3 is now a modern game, one that bends over backwards to make things nice and convenient for you. Social Links seem more stable, it's harder to get locked into things, etc. And that's not a bad thing, but I think there's a little lost when you move a game that used to be somewhat hostile to players into a more welcoming direction, especially a game with themes and tone like Persona 3. It feels like the balance between social sim and wish fulfillment sim has been tipped even further towards the latter. I appreciate that they seem to have made it impossible to 100% the game in one run though, you have to actually choose which relationships to foster.

Again, it's a good remake, one with the original atmosphere fully intact (once you bring the default brightness down 3 or 4 pips), and it's one that to 90% of people I would recommend over the original. But even if this had all of the content that'd ever been released for persona 3, I don't think I'd call this the definitive best version.

I just replayed Mass Effect 1 for the first time since I was a kid, using that new Legendary collection, and it was a much more interesting experience than I was expecting? Mostly because I've recently played through all of the Bioware RPGs that came before it that I'd missed, like Jade Empire and NWN. So I've got a more complete picture of where they came from and where they were going, I guess. While I was in a lot of ways dissappointed revisiting ME, there were also bits that really shone, and bits that surprised me how much I liked them.

The rest of the review (just for mass effect 1) is here