Lunar Remastered Collection
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I'm not sure what you were expecting. Can you name a really good remaster of a 90's game?
It's good that this exists so that younger generations can play the games, but to me there was never any question that the originals on the Sega CD and Saturn/PS1 are the way to go.
To me the games are very much a product of their time. I'm glad I was a certain young age to enjoy them when they came out, and they were cutting edge then. I'm not sure if I could appreciate them the same now. Cutscenes that seemed a miracle in their time just reused and AI upscaled just doesn't cut it.
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Ordered it yesterday morning for PS4. It's barely been a day and amazon is sold out. I guess the demand for it was more there then I realized.
Edit: Sold out on Nintendo Switch but you can still buy it for Xbox One.
Edit: Sold out on Nintendo Switch but you can still buy it for Xbox One.
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Yeah i seen that i thought about buying a copy so i can sell off my originals.Gungho has stated they will be doing another run of the lunar remaster collection.
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I imagine that Venn diagram is a circle.
Honestly looking forward to hearing the Japanese audio with subtitles. Will definitely be a nice change of pace after hearing the English VO for so long.
I still remember your really good take on subtitles vs. dubbed. Paraphrasing but, IIRC, "why would the creators of an anime intend for you to hear their work in another language?"
Only downside with this collection, I'm sure they'll just use the same subtitles as the dub. Lazy, if you ask me.
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I hope this does well. I admit I would love for Dragon Force to get remastered. Even though I think the 2nd game was so so to me, I loved the 1st one so yeah. Shut up and take my money if that happens.
Edit: Reaching for the stars, I'd love to have Shining Force III get this kind of treatment.
Edit: Reaching for the stars, I'd love to have Shining Force III get this kind of treatment.
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Dude, if they did shining force 3 holy fuck!!!!
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Yes, Gungho has said this will not be a limited item so they will just keep making production runs for the time being.
On the good news front, my nephew told me he bought me a copy for the Switch as a kind of comfort food, given that I am coming up on the one year anniversary of my wife's passing and he thought I could use some nostalgic distraction. I told him I was grateful for the gift. It should be here tomorrow.
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Ive only ever played through the PSP releases. No idea whether i played a decent version or not, but i enjoyed them quite a bit from what i recall. Jeez its been about 14 years since, i guess.
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That's one way to look at the lunars comfort food.That's what i like about game arts rpgs there are very lighthearted and not to serious far as story goes.Yeah i found one website stating another run will be done.
Lunar Remastered Collection Physical Restock Confirmed By GungHo CEO
GungHo confirms more Lunar Remastered Collection physical copies are in production following rapid sellouts. Restocks are on the way for collectors.
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Nobody knows if the psp versions were koll confirmed!!
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I've played them all except this new release, but not back to back so it's hard for me to say. I liked the PSP version just fine, but it seems like I liked the PS1 version more and I don't exactly remember why. I'm replaying the PS1 version right now.
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https://videogamesplus.ca/products/...-49452131&mc_cid=6b920dd682&mc_eid=f47772798d Preorders open on VGP now.
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So the reviews are pretty much confirming everyone's fears and suspicions that this is a lazy, or at the very least low skill, port of the PS versions. Blurring at the top and bottom of the screen, quality of life changes that are more confusing than the originla menus and various other incomprehensible changes. And even the already terrible WD localization has been censored to some degree. And apparently there's an all new voice cast for English dub, which I wasn't going to play it with anyway.
Mind you, I haven't tried the game myself yet. Just repeating what the criticisms have been. Even the more positive reviews for the port have their misgivings about this, from what I can see.
Mind you, I haven't tried the game myself yet. Just repeating what the criticisms have been. Even the more positive reviews for the port have their misgivings about this, from what I can see.
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I got my wife into the series through the PS1 versions that I still have and she loved them. She ordered the remaster and from what I've seen, I like the widescreen on the town and maps. The voices sound like every current anime dub that you've heard, which is probably fine for new players. The blurry vignette effect around the edges can be turned off. Performance seems fine.
The ai upscaling is horrendous on most character portraits and much of the video. Battle screen backgrounds look poorly zoomed in. Gungho should have hired a competent artist to redraw the backgrounds and clean up the character portraits. I can't imagine that should have been hard since none of that is animated.
The ai upscaling is horrendous on most character portraits and much of the video. Battle screen backgrounds look poorly zoomed in. Gungho should have hired a competent artist to redraw the backgrounds and clean up the character portraits. I can't imagine that should have been hard since none of that is animated.