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malvarez1
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Not to be that guy, but the artstyle is kinda ugly.
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Nekbone
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It is. I though tit was based on the CG movie Dragon Quest had awhile back which was also not great looking. On one hand it's nice to see something other than the Octopath 2DHD style. On the other hand this isn't great either and evokes that unpleasing Link's Awakening remake miniature style. There's certainly more styles out there companies can use beyond those two for modern 2D games. At the very least they're calling it "Reimagined" which won't lead people to think it'll be a faithful remake. |
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AiddonValentine
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Another remake just in time for the PS1 players who are finishing it up right about -looks at watch- now. Seriously, interesting idea but good GRIEF that game loves to draw stuff out.
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BadNewsBlues
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Artstyle is fine. May just be the uncanny valley aspects or the familiarity with Akira Toriyama’s designs tuning you out. Do wonder will the writing actually be better or will we still have things like Maribelle being grossly unlikable, some of the NPC storylines being unresolvable in a satisfactory manner, or annoying storyline quest like Notaghin. Also will every region get an orchestrated soundtrack or will that be exclusive to Japan again.
No one should ever expect a remake to be 1:1 in all facets. And truth be told with some elements of the original Platstation people definitely shouldn’t be wanting this game to be a 1:1 of the PlayStation version. Last edited by BadNewsBlues on Fri Sep 12, 2025 4:58 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Fluwm
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When this was leaked a while back, I didn’t believe it at all. Of all the Dragon Wuest games in need of rerelease, surely DQ7 would be near the bottom of the list, right? Wild to me were seeing this before DQs 4, 5, 9 or 8 especially.
That’s not really what “faithful” means in this context. Anyway, it will be very funny if this winds up being more faithful to the original game than FF7R. Which, I mean, is practically an inevitability at this point — but very amusing all the same. |
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EmeraldSaucer
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I'd say a DQ7 remake is more than welcome, to get it off the 3DS as its newest platform and to give it a remake that doesn't have really bad street pass content as its main new feature
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BadNewsBlues
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Nevertheless there tends to be too much stock put into how faithful a remake has to be to what it’s remaking. All I’m saying is you don’t have to be make a remake of something near exactly the same as the original work. |
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Mizlude
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I read on social media that it's using the Bravely Default 2 engine. I don't know if it's true but it does kind of look like it... and would explain why it doesn't look so hot.
The original game used that 2D sprites on 3D background style which i adored. It wasn't as crisp and refined as Breath of Fire 3, Final Fantasy Tactics, or other games but it was in that vein. I'm not really feeling the remake's art direction. |
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ZelosZoidberg
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While I heard the rumor and it's nice and all, I don't think even after I finished the 3DS remake upon it's release I'm ready to return to 7 (it's too long if you ask me and I love the game). I really want a DQ9 remake because that's the most underrated game in the series (not counting spin-offs).
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TJ_Kat
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I always thought the wildest thing about DQ7 was that you don't have your first battle until 3 hours into the game.
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Fluwm
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I mean, I really don’t think that’s the case, especially in the context of remaking classic JRPGs specifically, given how contentious the FF7 remake series has been. That’s not case of a remake simply failing to mirror the original game to within X degrees of accuracy or whatever, but what is instead a drastically different game on almost every level, bearing only superficial similarities to the title it’s ostensibly a remake of. And that’s gonna cast such a large shadow of this whole discussion that it feels kind of disingenuous to try and frame it like the issue is people are upset when remakes are only 95% similar to the originals instead of 100%, or something similarly insignificant. It’s like all of the hullabaloo Age of Calamity got (and that Age of Imprisonment will also get): the game was framed as being a retelling of BotW’s canon backstory (or TotK’s, in Imprisonment’s case) but wound up being, effectively, an alternate universe fanfic instead. Folks are always gonna get upset when a product is advertised as one thing, but then they buy it only to discover it’s something else entirely — and that is very emphatically not the fault of the consumers. |
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BadNewsBlues
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That game could’ve been the same game that was teased with that PlayStation 3 tech demo and people still would’ve found something to gripe about not being exactly as it was in the PSOne game.
Not generally no but like I said when you hear that something is being remade from something old you shouldn’t automatically assume that the remake is going to be the exact same as the original game. Espcially as making such a game would beg the question of the remake’s necessity. |
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lufia2rocks
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DQ7 is famously long. Easily over 100 hours on a first playthrough. I wonder if the Reimagined thing is going to be a heavily streamlined and shorter version of the game as a result. I wonder if this is what Dragon Quest producer Ryutaro Ichimura meant when he said Dragon Quest has become too safe and boring when he left Square-Enix awhile back. This is the second Dragon Quest game that's getting a remake that already got a previous remake. And if it's a more shorter and simpler version then I can see the critique or maybe just because remakes in general are safe and lazy. On the topic of remakes and faithfulness I think the main issue is a lot of modern remakes 1) hold some kind of contempt for the original and also 2) tend to have less content than the original or even sell it back to you as DLC like we saw with RE4 and Persona 3. I liked remakes that had a lot more new content like Metroid Zero Mission.. Zero Mission isn't exactly faithful since it adds a ton of stuff and fits it into the later games lore for Samus while the original game had pretty much none but I don't think anyone would ever complain about those additions and changes. But I didn't like the changes made to the modern Persona and Resident Evil remakes even outside the cut content/DLC stuff which is why those remakes are more divided. FF7's Remake is on a whole other level of it's own at this point. |
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ZelosZoidberg
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^Man, Zero Mission is like a gold stranded when it comes to remakes. The original Metroid has aged badly compared to say the Mario NES games. Besides almost every room not looking the same we got a map while fleshing out the story and it gave her her now infamous zero suit.
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BadNewsBlues
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Seperate Ways is a bit funny with the fact that originally it was only apart of the PS2 version of 4 which means if you’re like most people you bought the Gaemcube version which didn’t have it. And if you wanted to try you had to shell out extra for that version. Then of course there’s the fact that RE4R’s version is sold much cheaper than Persona 3’s version of the Answer.
I wouldn't call 4 divisive by most feedback it’s considered as good if not better than the original. 3Remake on the other hand is. |
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