Satoshi Matrix Reviews - Retro and Contemporary

Denine · Post by **Denine** » Wed May 11, 2011 8:12 am

I never played it.But this review conviced me to try it.

SatoshiMatrix · Post by **SatoshiMatrix** » Wed May 25, 2011 10:02 pm

Review time. Here's a look at the newly released Final Fantasy IV: The Complete Collection for PSP. Is it worth a look? You bet it is!

http://satoshimatrix.wordpress.com/2011 ... eview-psp/

Enjoy!

Bregalad · Post by **Bregalad** » Thu May 26, 2011 4:12 am

Man it's the game has already be remade for :
PS1
WSC
GBA
DS
Wii

and now they port the game a SIXTH time for the PSP ? It's really ridiculous.
At least it's still in 2D, not like the terrible very polygonal 3D DS verion.

Post by **tepples** » Thu May 26, 2011 4:29 am

Bregalad wrote:and now they port the game a SIXTH time for the PSP ? It's really ridiculous.

Yet hobbyists port FCEUX and Snes9x to every newly cracked console as it appears. It appears to be the "hello world" of homebrew. So why shouldn't a publisher port its classic games to every console in an effort to satisfy players' desires before the ROM pirates do?

Bregalad · Post by **Bregalad** » Thu May 26, 2011 4:46 am

So why shouldn't a publisher port its classic games to every console in an effort to satisfy players' desires before the ROM pirates do?

Because they should invest their time and skills into developing good new games instead. (not crap like FF12 or FF13 as good new games).

And I think SNES9x has been available for the PSP for year, I remember someone showed it to me some 4 or 5 years ago, so FF4 has been playable on that platform all the way along. Not to mention it should be possible to play an ISO of FF4 PS1 or an emulated FF4 Advance too on the PSP

Post by **tepples** » Thu May 26, 2011 4:52 am

Bregalad wrote:
So why shouldn't a publisher port its classic games to every console in an effort to satisfy players' desires before the ROM pirates do?
Because they should invest their time and skills into developing good new games instead.

In other words: "A work of authorship published in an obsolete format should not be rereleased in a new format. For example, any movie that has been distributed on VHS tapes shouldn't be remastered for DVD or Blu-ray." Did I misunderstand you? Because if I didn't, they'd also have to invest their legal department's time and skills into suing people who keep their good old games alive, and they'd have to invest their PR department's time and skills into fending off boycotts of the publisher.

Bregalad · Post by **Bregalad** » Thu May 26, 2011 5:06 am

Did I misunderstand you?

As usual, yes. I'm just saying 6 reamakes is too much.

tokumaru · Post by **tokumaru** » Thu May 26, 2011 5:52 am

The good thing is that nobody forces you to buy remakes (at least for now while games are still distributed in physical media), if you don't like them, just don't buy them. You can't really expect a company to acknowledge that a game can already be played on a system through piracy on a certain platform and use that as a reason to not release a remake of said game on said platform.

SatoshiMatrix · Post by **SatoshiMatrix** » Thu May 26, 2011 11:17 am

Bregalad, did you actually read my review

FFIV hasn't been remade six times. The PS1 version was a direct port. The wonderswan conversion was an enhanced port, but still a port. The GBA version was a port of the Wonderswan version with some slight tweaks. On Wii it's only Virtual Console so that means a port of the SNES version.

There are only two remakes - the 3D rough polygon one on the DS and this "HD 2D" version on the PSP.

Two remakes of one of the bes classic RPGs of all time that are very different from each other isn't too much. The only thing I hope is that V and VI will receive the same treatment before PSP support dries up. I love IV don't get me wrong, but I feel it was bested by the other two 16-bit FFs to follow, especially VI.

dr_sloppy · Post by **dr_sloppy** » Thu May 26, 2011 4:59 pm

It's a shame that SquareEnix didn't make the DS-port of Chrono Trigger into something along the lines of the FF remakes. That along with the additional ending would make me more than happy to cough up twice the dough for it.

SatoshiMatrix · Post by **SatoshiMatrix** » Tue Jun 14, 2011 3:09 am

Hey guys, its been a good while since I last put up a review, so I thought I should try for something a little controversial this time.

The game I choose for review was Dark Void, a game my gaming peers seems to have hated, but I enjoyed quite a bit. Agree? Disagree? Fall somewhere in between? Let me hear about it.

Anyway guys, enjoy!

http://satoshimatrix.wordpress.com/2011 ... w-ps3x360/