This is gonna sound harsh, but it's because I care. Know that what I say comes from a place of love. I love Thousand-Year Door. It's one of my favorite GameCube games. If you look here, you'll see that I named the original release my Eastern RPG of the Year for 2004:
https://www.backloggd.com/u/jamz92/list/eastern-rpg-of-the-year/
That being said, what a shitshow of a remake.
The more I play of this game, the less I like it compared to the GameCube release. Everything is so much SLOWER than the original. At the time I am reviewing this, there's no way to speed up the text scroll speed like there is in the original. Given how chatty this game is, that's a real problem.
Levelling up is significantly slower. When you levelled up in the original, your HP and FP were instantly filled. Now, it ticks up slowly. It acts like you were at zero, even if you were full.
The game runs at 30 FPS, whereas the GameCube version ran at 60 FPS. I assumed that better tech specs meant better performance, but I guess not. The graphics are way too glossy for the tone the original was trying to convey. I HATE the remixed music. Thankfully you can turn it off with a badge that is cheap, but I would prefer to have it in the options. So we have a worse looking, worse sounding, worse performing game that wastes your time compared to the original that costs more than the GameCube game originally did. I say wait for a price drop, or better yet, emulate the original. Don't incentivize Nintendo to cut corners like this with their own history. I haven't seen such a botched remake out of this company since the Diamond and Pearl remakes on Switch.
https://www.backloggd.com/u/jamz92/list/eastern-rpg-of-the-year/
That being said, what a shitshow of a remake.
The more I play of this game, the less I like it compared to the GameCube release. Everything is so much SLOWER than the original. At the time I am reviewing this, there's no way to speed up the text scroll speed like there is in the original. Given how chatty this game is, that's a real problem.
Levelling up is significantly slower. When you levelled up in the original, your HP and FP were instantly filled. Now, it ticks up slowly. It acts like you were at zero, even if you were full.
The game runs at 30 FPS, whereas the GameCube version ran at 60 FPS. I assumed that better tech specs meant better performance, but I guess not. The graphics are way too glossy for the tone the original was trying to convey. I HATE the remixed music. Thankfully you can turn it off with a badge that is cheap, but I would prefer to have it in the options. So we have a worse looking, worse sounding, worse performing game that wastes your time compared to the original that costs more than the GameCube game originally did. I say wait for a price drop, or better yet, emulate the original. Don't incentivize Nintendo to cut corners like this with their own history. I haven't seen such a botched remake out of this company since the Diamond and Pearl remakes on Switch.
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Not to mention the copious amount of jokes that were rewritten/censored from the GameCube release. Overall, it's looking like this version is a general downgrade from the original, sidegrade at best. So sad that Nintendo couldn't do this game justice.
Game was still done from ground up, and they involved many studios, especially over cinematics moment. If you don't believe me just do more research behind the development. It wasn't a lazy remake for sure. Then that the hardware holds the game is the real thing to blame since they sacrificed performance over looks/graphics (not framerate) which...I'm not sure why you consider it worse, there is definitely effort behind it. It sounds more like a subjective opinion than anything else.
Dunno, treating a remake with the equivalent of a 1/10 as if we are talking about a E.T. for Atari 2600 or Big Riggs as a mean of protest over Nintendo (in a website that doesn't touch them at all) is something I'll never understand.
Dunno, treating a remake with the equivalent of a 1/10 as if we are talking about a E.T. for Atari 2600 or Big Riggs as a mean of protest over Nintendo (in a website that doesn't touch them at all) is something I'll never understand.
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@Nickakyoin Yes, I agree there was effort. There's effort in a lot of games. Like Howard Scott Warshaw making ET all by himself. Effort doesn't make quality though. At no point in my review did I call it a lazy remake. Graphics are a subjective thing. The whole review is just my subjective opinion. I don't claim that my reviews are objective. No game is objectively good or bad. That would be silly. And every game review is subjective. I think this remake is not as good as the original release. So I wrote my thoughts down. Simple as.
Wait but the music is so much better, it fits the mood so much more, at least I think so. And the FPS didn’t bother me that much once I played for about an hour. I beat the original front and back and I adored it but this just feels like an improvement in just about every conceivable way.
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