Final Fantasy X (AND X2) Remaster

[auronlu]

Most of you already saw this on Tumblr, but just to signal boost...

Sometime this year, the long-awaited FFX HD remaster will FINALLY be released for Playstation 3, Vita. (Probably not XBox.)

It includes:

• Final Fantasy X
  
• Final Fantasy X-2 (bundled together on PS3, separately on Vita...what?)
  
• All content previously only available in international version, INCLUDING Dark Aeons, Penance, "Last Mission" story, Coliseum (which I'm psyched about, because you can grab any enemy you defeat for an ally, including Lulu, Lucil, Elma)
  
• Revamped sphere grid
  
• Three new dresspheres (presumably psychic, festivalgoer and something else?)
  
• Tweaked X-2 gameplay
  
• New final bonus dungeon in addition to Last Mission's bonus dungeon.
  

So many people have been playing these games on emulators that we've gotten spoiled to seeing twelve-year-old graphics as crisp as they can be -- much better than they were on our old fuzzy tv sets. So the graphics won't actually be that much of an upgrade. We're talking Dissidia graphics, not FFXIII graphics. But the point is that all the content will be playable, including chunks that were never released in the U.S., on a modern console.

Now if only they had room to cram in the Japanese voices with English subtitles and/or get Hedy Buress to reread Yuna's lines for FFX without Shatnering. (I still want to bop whoever told her to lip synch, which most of the VAs decided to ignore.)

Comments

[sarasa_cat]

FINALLY!

[auronlu]

Now I'm wondering if the lazy-ass modelers will actually get poor Lulu out of her corset and into something comfortable and flowing for her cameos in X-2. A small detail in the story, but still, as a role model... A pregnant woman, gorgeous and plump, with speaking lines in a video game? JUST ONCE?

[owlmoose]

Last Mission! You have no idea how excited I am to play Last Mission! I have a DVD of dubious legality with all the Last Mission cutscenes, but it's not at all the same as actually getting to play it.

And all the other stuff too, like HD Crimson Spheres and the Dark Aeons, but really all the other news pales in comparison.

[auronlu]

I think for me one of the biggest things will be all the secondary characters getting proper game graphics. I can play a game with lousy graphics if the story is good, but I loved all the npcs in these games -- save'maybe Tobli and LeBlanc's crew -- that I'm just about as psyched for Maroda not looking like a box head as I am for Auron getting his final cutscnene in high poly (I hope).

[owlmoose]

If Auron's final cut scene is not in high poly I think I may demand my money back.

[cygna_hime]

SQUEALS AT CANINE PITCH

[samuraiter]

Both games in one PS3 package, eh? With all the content we didn't get, plus new stuff? I'd be willing to put down money on that.