Those smeary textures are replaced by chunky jaggies again, and in my eyes this gives it a lot more character, texture and personality. This is the 2013 version in Original Graphic Mode.
It's times like this when I wish the Remastered version had the 2013's 'Original Graphic Mode' option, because that's able to turn this monstrosity above into this mildly better monstrosity below. Sweet Shiva, what have they done to the overworld map? The worst culprit, though, is the overworld map. Instead, they feel like they've been air-lifted in from a completely different game, robbing me from taking any satisfaction in their glorious new 'I can actually see your individual expressions now' look whatsoever. While each character is certainly a lot easier on the eyes than the 2013 release, they just don't feel as grounded in their individual environments any more compared to their blurry, misshapen classmates. This is sort of my biggest complaint about the remaster. Unlike class beauty Sheila on the right, poor Judith had her faced completely erased when she failed the last field exam. If you think that's bad, spare a thought for the poor SeeD students trapped forever in their original mutated pixel form over in the foreground of this pre-rendered background. The original mountains may have pixels the size of doorstops, but I'll be damned if they're considered 'worse' than the rough, almost unfinished-looking outlines they've been given in the remaster. As much as I love the clean, detailed lines of both Squall and his insectoid foes in the Remastered version here, I'm less enamoured with whatever the hell's going on with those weirdly sliced mountains in the background.
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The 2013 PC version is by no means any great masterpiece, but I don't know. The 2013 PC Final Fantasy VIII release.versus FFVIII Remastered. Just look at these two battle scenes to see what I mean. Edges have been softened, colour gradients blended, and some chunky, jagged background textures brought into sharp, unforgiving focus. In a nutshell, it seems like the developers have taken a giant vat of Vaseline to Final Fantasy VIII and given it a good old smear.
Those pre-rendered backgrounds behind him, though? Those are a different story. You only need to look at the transformation between Squall's original, puffy-cheeked appearance and his new, pretty anime body above to see how much they've improved. I understand now why Square Enix largely focused on the game's battle scenes and FMV sequences in that initial Remastered trailer, because holy moly it's a bit of a shock when you actually clap eyes on the rest of it. What's wrong with those SeeD students? And those backgrounds? And oh sweet Guardian Forces WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO SQUALL'S FACE? Good thing, then, that today marks the release of Final Fantasy VIII Remastered, a spruced-up, PC-friendly version that finally does it justi- wait. The music isn't right, the controls are fiddly it's aged horribly. The 2013 PC release is, let's face it, a bit of a fudge. It is, however, one of the more trying Final Fantasy games to get running properly on PC. It's getting on a bit (20 years, in fact) but its tale of time-travelling witches, lovestruck teens, cannonball dogs and bonkers floating military schools is still, for me, one of the best things to come out of this never-ending series. Recently Dissidia Final Fantasy NT acquired two new playable characters from Final Fantasy VIII - main female protagonist Rinoa and main villain Ultimecia.Whenever someone asks me what my favourite Final Fantasy game is, the answer is always Final Fantasy VIII. The last time the game had been ported was back in 2013, in which it came with several new features such as Magic Booster and the Chocobo World minigame. You can check out the official trailer here to get a look at the title's graphical enhancements.
Hopefully a more thorough explanation will follow in the coming months concerning this exclusivity.įinal Fantasy VIII Remastered - coming later this year for PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC for Steam - will have updated character models and graphics.
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