The Zodiac Job Edition was better than the vanilla one and that one had no Matsuno either!
Give him a shirt...
I'd understand this stance if this was some Tactics Ogre: LUCT type remake, but this will most likely just be a pretty straightforward HD remaster, so I don't quite see why Matsuno would have to be involved, especially when someone like Ito who handled it before could handle it again.
I'd venture a guess that TGS or Jump Festa are the more likely venues for the reveal of this. Gamescom will probably be mostly about Square Enix's western games as well as FFXV's huge blowout, TGS is probably more suitable for a FFXII HD remaster reveal.
I kinda wish this much better protagonist was the main character for the whole game. His resolute and more serious nature gave me FF Tactics vibes. Vaan's happy go lucky attitude didn't really suit an Ivalice game, IMO.
I doubt this is a remake. They probably meant remaster. Color me pleasantly surprised if I'm wrong, though.
You can find a copy on ebay or Amazon for around $25 most of the time.
I kinda wish this much better protagonist was the main character for the whole game. His resolute and more serious nature gave me FF Tactics vibes. Vaan's happy go lucky attitude didn't really suit an Ivalice game, IMO.
I doubt this is a remake. They probably meant remaster. Color me pleasantly surprised if I'm wrong, though.
That's mostly because Vaan wasn't really supposed to have a strong character in the game. He's not a totally personality-free mute MC like some DQ player character, but even then he's more of a witness to the events that unfold and kind of the newbie character you see the world through and not some huge driving force & central character in the story. He's given a role in the story and some kind of reason to be a part of the adventure, but there are other characters that are far more central to the events than Vaan.
AFAIK Vaan wasn't originally supposed to even be in the game. He was added relatively late because some higher-ups or marketing people thought that the game needed a young, pretty male as the marketed main character instead of Basch. Matsuno then added a somewhat unimportant-to-the-larger-picture character like Vaan into the story while keeping Basch and Ashe as the more important characters for the story.
The game would have never come out in the first place had Matsuno stayed on the team anyway.
It's a long-shot, but do you think we could get some new duds for the main cast?
Vaan to me always seemed to be lacking something... and then Dissidia showed me what that something was.
A shirt!
... Oh, also agency in the plot, but I don't think that's going to get rectified unless it really IS a remake.
That laid-back sexy pose promotional shot makes Vaan looks worse than he actually is. His inward abs are a bit weird, but I don't think his design is all that problematic in-game. It's just the promo shot that looks like some male model shot that is kinda iffy & silly, but the in-game model looks like some FF/Japanese version of Aladdin. He's a pretty good character design, imho. Not as bawd-aaaazzzz as Basch & Balthier, but it's not like every character needs to be.
I get the reasoning behind Vaan's unimportance and "otherness", but I feel like a stronger character (like Reks) who actually contributed to the plot would have just made for a more interesting story. The way Vaan was written was jarring and just not very entertaining.
