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The character models however are incredible, despite some clipping issues. While hair is just a lump of stuff on the heads with some jiggle physics, they're really faithful to the original artwork, and are extremely, and dare I say IMPRESSIVELY expressive. If only the dialogue and voice acting were up to scratch, it'd fall less flat.

Also Hawk is every bit the pretty boy he was in the original and then some. Duran is cute too. Kevin is legit badass too.

On the upside though, the gameplay has clearly received the most love and attention. It handles great, the world is beautiful and nicely detailed, exploration is rewarded with extra goodies to find in chests and on the ground, and because you can JUMP now, the world has been given more verticality in its layouts, leading to far more impressive locales and hidden objects to find.

Plus you can dodgeroll now. No more being forced to facetank boss moves!!

Also there's some... Kinda blatant clipping issues with the characters and their outfits at points, and also certain visual glitches that make the game feel like it came out a decade earlier. There's a certain level of polish that makes it feel kinda lazy.

The music, while amazingly faithful to the original SNES ost is perhaps just a little TOO faithful. It honestly feels just like someone took the original tracks and slapped new hd instruments on them. There's no other changes

Charlotte's va was clearly given the direction to be the most annoying character possible, which, considering that Charlotte was the most annoying character possible in the original game anyway, has been given a whole new dimension of awfulness with her talking "wike this constantwy!!!" And ohhhhhh my god I hate it so much. Like, cmon squeenix, you had a chance to turn the most annoying character into someone likable aaaaaand... You did not. You did the exact opposite.

Okay so... Trials of Mana has a pretty good demo. There are some issues though.

Mostly voice acting. It's extremely clunky for pretty much everyone except for the Mage girl and the himbo Knight.

Kevin's va I think has been given bad direction with the lines. I get that they're trying to convey he's really bad with language but he stops and starts at weird points. Reisz's va is competent enough but her delivery feels... Forced and unnatural.

(this is a shitpost of course. the real measure of whether or not you are a game developer is if you develop games or not

...

but if you have a cast that's mostly made of broody white men with short hair and scruffy beards with a few token girls you gotta rescue, you'd best watch yourself cause you're on thin friggin ice.)

if your game isn't full of girls for the main cast, or in fact, every main character, both villains, protagonists and side characters, that are all gay for each other, then can you even really call yourself a game developer

Thulhu is in an extremely snuggly mood <3

what am doing and why hm

what if

mashup of Theme of TARA from Metal Gear

and Spy Vs Spy's main theme.