Now THIS is an HD Remake. It is eliminating any criticism I had for what was probably my favorite game on the PS2.
The new areas look so refreshing. The mountain stage now has a stunning crystal cave, and a mountain climbing segment which is nice and adds some variety to the gameplay instead of 10-12 straightforward combat areas. The preview also showed breakable boundaries and more new places to go.
The game is so much faster now and one of my favorite parts is how they're handling planting.
In the original you had Rosemile which would give off about 12 phozons, and would take as long as 20+ seconds to come out 2 at a time. In the video it's 3-4 seconds. On top of that it seems you can just release phozons from your weapon at the press of a button. This really picks up the pace and makes grinding for food MUCH less of a chore. I'm assuming as a result the skill you would originally get to release phozons from your weapon is gone. It's major use in the old version of the game was to power-grind your character as phozons give you weapon EXP and you'd essentially recycle them for somewhat faster level.
The combat is infinitely better. You don't just have one combo and has been updated to be more in line with Muramasa/Dragon's Crown. The Psypher skills seem to be possibly customizable with not only shortcuts set to [O] and a direction,
but the preview put up by Atlus here shows what looks to be skill trees for all the characters around the 2:45 mark.
Alchemy is also much better with them actually telling you on the screen what you can use to make what. It's just great.
Oh and the visuals being upgraded makes everything absolutely beautiful.
Absolutely Day 1 for me. This is a remake worth purchasing just on what has been shown. Couldn't be happier.
