Honestly just amazing. Some of the best voice acting and story in any game ever period.
I played the original release on the wii and on the 3ds, and while its still amazing that a game of this scale even worked at all on those consoles, I believe this is the best, not to mention most accessible, way to play the game.
FOR the new content: future connected was disappointing to say the least. It's fun to explore the scrapped beta area, the bionis' shoulder, but the story was very boring. On top of that, the party is bad - you have shulk and melia, so whoever you aren't playing is most likely going to be practically useless due to both of them having terrible AI, and 2 nopons who are copies of sharla (who was weak anyway) and reyn (who is arguably the strongest character in base game but istg the nopon was somehow just weaker). They are 2 of Riki's kids, but they weren't nearly as entertaining as their dad (my favorite character in the game fwiw).
Also, the voice direction was just meh... Adam Howden did fine coming back as Shulk, but Jenna Coleman either sounded like she didn't care or that she somehow aged 20 years (not to be rude, I'm being pretty literal here). It's been 10 years since the original release, so it's honestly understandable anyway. Props to monolithsoft for getting the original VA's though.
Only 4.5 stars because I feel like some characters got less attention in the story. Namely, sharla has arguably little importance after the events in colony 6. Melia also gets cucked which is sad.
Other than that, great game. Base game is still amazing but the new expansion is meh. Excited to get to 3 now that I've replayed 1 and 2.
I played the original release on the wii and on the 3ds, and while its still amazing that a game of this scale even worked at all on those consoles, I believe this is the best, not to mention most accessible, way to play the game.
FOR the new content: future connected was disappointing to say the least. It's fun to explore the scrapped beta area, the bionis' shoulder, but the story was very boring. On top of that, the party is bad - you have shulk and melia, so whoever you aren't playing is most likely going to be practically useless due to both of them having terrible AI, and 2 nopons who are copies of sharla (who was weak anyway) and reyn (who is arguably the strongest character in base game but istg the nopon was somehow just weaker). They are 2 of Riki's kids, but they weren't nearly as entertaining as their dad (my favorite character in the game fwiw).
Also, the voice direction was just meh... Adam Howden did fine coming back as Shulk, but Jenna Coleman either sounded like she didn't care or that she somehow aged 20 years (not to be rude, I'm being pretty literal here). It's been 10 years since the original release, so it's honestly understandable anyway. Props to monolithsoft for getting the original VA's though.
Only 4.5 stars because I feel like some characters got less attention in the story. Namely, sharla has arguably little importance after the events in colony 6. Melia also gets cucked which is sad.
Other than that, great game. Base game is still amazing but the new expansion is meh. Excited to get to 3 now that I've replayed 1 and 2.