Good write up, appreciate the effort.
I just finished it and both of them. Echoes of the Fallen doesn't really add anything aside from the Omega Weapon and a couple of neat boss fights, but if I hadn't paid a grand total of $0 for it I'd be sorely disappointed since its basically just a single dungeon crawl. The Omega Weapon is certainly a nice weapon in terms of looks and stats though. Rising Tide definitely expanded the world for the better in terms of lore and environments, and with a brand new Eikon to boot. Shula being easy on the eyes certainly didn't hurt. Sadly they both come way, way too late to matter much to the main game, so I wound up using Omega Weapon exactly twice: first time while gathering the water for the Rite of Immersion and once against Ultima in the final battle.
They’re alright. Echoes of the Fallen is mostly just combat which is meh but the Omega fight is a nice challenge.
Includes Denuvo.
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Same here. I was already skeptical when I saw no mentions of WoTL additions anywhere (they already revealed Cloud's VA for that game, but not Luso or Balthier), but seeing this just made me so disappointed, crap man!
No Balthier is a crime. His cel-shaded intro cutscene in War Of The Lions was one of the most memorable moments in an already memorable game for me.
Leave it to Square to fuck up something as simple as a port...
I'm sorry, but $60 for a 28 year old ps1 game is madness. Especially if the original and ports still hold up.
Makes the cringe le class politics announcement funnier.
50$*, but it's still madness either way.
now and be anxiously ready to get disappointed on September 30th!
They're selling a "deluxe edition" for $60 too. It just comes with a couple low level items. Are square really so hard up these days they have to pull stunts like this?
Now that their cash cow FF14 has been getting shit on over the new expansion, maybe.
The problem with this take is that the eco message, as articulated in Avalanche v Shinra, does not last. The game pretty quickly becomes more about Sephiroth who honestly, if anything, represents Old Testament style punishment of Humanity. He isn't God however because he has the human failing of Greed, taken to a monstrously consumptive level because he's half-Jenova, but besides that Barrett has his ideals seriously questioned and it really only appears to be Midgar that's wounding the planet. Everywhere else looks fine unless Shinra actively damaged it. The game actually has the politics of staying local and not surrendering to low-trust impulses like sloth, revenge, and sacrificing good things in petty squabbles. This is is where Aerith and her death come in. Most blatantly Christian character in gaming besides Joshua Graham whose gimmick, separating her from the rest of the cast, is not acting out of the mistreatment she received in her early years. Every other cast member by comparison is driven by some kind of feud or disappointment. Her motives are considerably purer than this, being driven by something that could pass for destiny, regardless of how retards have tried to revise her history as a character.
Jecht can come off as "toxic" and mean spirited for bullying Tidus but that was just his way off trying to teach him to stand on his own feet and become "a man". He was far from perfect but he loved his family and was willing to fight monsters and even quit drinking to get the chance to see them again.
Tidus’ mom is objectively the worse parent, the fact that Jecht would literally have to tell her to spend time with him is proof enough. Jecht may have been a dick but Tidus’ mom was outright neglectful to the point that she was selfish enough to die when Jecht left with no regard for her son.
Tidus is the opposite of Andrew Tate who places all the blame on his mom for his dad being a nigger (leaving and missing time with him).