Final Fantasy V Remake confirmed for Smartphone

Originally Posted by Elpizo

Originally Posted by The White Wizard of Fynn

I actually prefer these sprites to the FFIV PSP ones. They look a lot like the classic ones, just HD. Also, judging by Dimensions, these will look much better on retina.

I have to disagree with that. These don't look HD. The monster sprites show barely any difference from the original, and the character sprites are simply in a different form, but the resolution, detail or pixels or whatever don't look much better than the GBA port, let alone as high as the PSP ports. Whether one likes the style of the PSP ports or not, they did provide some very clean and HD sprites (I don't really see what's wrong with the IV: TCC sprites, they provided a nice mix of the classic sprites and the DS character models, and the monsters were gorgeous). This, however, looks more like a step to the side than a step forward.

Apart from looking like a generic Korean MMO and the inconsistencies between portraits?

Anyway, like I said, Dimensions didn't look like much from the screenshots, but you would not spot a single pixel there.

Originally Posted by The White Wizard of Fynn

Apart from looking like a generic Korean MMO and the inconsistencies between portraits?

Anyway, like I said, Dimensions didn't look like much from the screenshots, but you would not spot a single pixel there.

You do realise that everybody who hasn't played a single Korean in their lives (such as me) will find that a moot point, yes? Hardly a big complaint there. (What does a Korean RPG even look like and why does it qualify as "bad" when something looks like it?) Even so, "generic" doesn't equal "bad". Also, what are these portrait inconsistencies you talk of? The only one I could kind of see is Cecil's, with long hair in portrait and overworld sprite, but short hair in his battle sprite. The others all looked pretty good. Mind you I've yet to play the After Years.

Originally Posted by Elpizo

Originally Posted by The White Wizard of Fynn

Apart from looking like a generic Korean MMO and the inconsistencies between portraits?

Anyway, like I said, Dimensions didn't look like much from the screenshots, but you would not spot a single pixel there.

You do realise that everybody who hasn't played a single Korean in their lives (such as me) will find that a moot point, yes? Hardly a big complaint there. (What does a Korean RPG even look like and why does it qualify as "bad" when something looks like it?) Even so, "generic" doesn't equal "bad". Also, what are these portrait inconsistencies you talk of? The only one I could kind of see is Cecil's, with long hair in portrait and overworld sprite, but short hair in his battle sprite. The others all looked pretty good. Mind you I've yet to play the After Years.

Never said it was bad, as you noticed, I said it was generic. I personally prefer these sprites as they really seem more like the original ones but smoothed-out.
Cecil's hair is not the only problem. I generally noticed how they do not base the overworld and battle sprites or the portraits on a single piece of artwork, but on different ones, which was much the case in the original, but that was over 20 years ago. Such inconsistencies I find unacceptable now, especially after the glorious in terms of style DS remake. TAY was fine, though.
I'm not saying the FFIV:CC style is objectively bad, heck, I don't even personally think it's bad. I just feel much more at home with this. I probably would have preferred a full-blown 3DS remake, akin to the DS version of FFIV, but this is satisfactory to me. I enjoyed Dimensions immensely, and like I said, the style here is very much like that of the SNES-era games, but just smoother. Also, I love everything Amano, so bigger, nicer portraits based on his artwork make for a happy me

And I also think the backgrounds look much better than in Dimensions, which is another plus for me.
In other words, I dig it. I know a lot of people won't, but for me, this really makes me want to play V all over again.

A remake isn't intrinsically good, it's only good if you enjoy it over and above how you would enjoy another playthrough of the original.

Provide you like the changes and the medium I have no doubt that would be awesome. It's just that it doesn't seem like a lot of people here are in that basket.

Originally Posted by Spooniest

They're remaking Final Fantasy 5. Why aren't you happy?

Because there seems to be little reason to pick this version over the excellent GBA port, unless you're absolutely dying to play it with touch controls or with character sprites taken from FF Dimensions. Personally, touch controls and different character sprites don't cut it for me. Unless they're cramming this full of extra content, which I doubt.

Not to mention, given how many people wanted a full-blown remake in the vain of III and IV DS, a simple port that doesn't even give us HD sprites feels like a blow to the balls.

Originally Posted by Spooniest

I've just about had it hearing about the "excellent" GBA ports. I thought they were trout.

That's nice. Doesn't change the fact that they weren't.

I actually didn't have a whole lot of love for the GBA ports either. I would rater play the originals.

Anybody who would prefer to play the original V instead of the vastly superior V Advance is out of his mind. Not to mention V Advance was actually translated. There is no reason to pick the SNES version over the GBA one unless you're alergic to quality GBA games or something. There's absolutely nothing the SNES version of V did that V Advance didn't do better. And yeah, I include music in that. One could argue that IV Advance suffered from too many glitches (at least the US version) and that VI Advance suffered loss in the quality of its music, but there's absolutely nothing wrong with V Advance. It's as good as perfect. Any new version of V that wants to improve upon that will have to do better than changing the character sprites.

Originally Posted by Elpizo

Anybody who would prefer to play the original V instead of the vastly superior V Advance is out of his mind.

Or someone who wants the oldschool feeling of enjoying something in its original version like me.

I have Final Fantasy V for the Super Famicom/Nintendo, the Anthology version and the GBA version. I use them all.

battles with Exdeath (in the castle and his first form in the void)

The rift is not the void.

Originally Posted by Elpizo

Anybody who would prefer to play the original V instead of the vastly superior V Advance is out of his mind. Not to mention V Advance was actually translated. There is no reason to pick the SNES version over the GBA one unless you're alergic to quality GBA games or something. There's absolutely nothing the SNES version of V did that V Advance didn't do better. And yeah, I include music in that. One could argue that IV Advance suffered from too many glitches (at least the US version) and that VI Advance suffered loss in the quality of its music, but there's absolutely nothing wrong with V Advance. It's as good as perfect. Any new version of V that wants to improve upon that will have to do better than changing the character sprites.

That's actually wrong. There are a few valid reasons to like the SNES version. The SNES version has a lot better audio quality, both sound effects and music. The GBA version also has a few minor slowdowns in places where the SNES does not.

Originally Posted by Mirage

Originally Posted by Elpizo

Anybody who would prefer to play the original V instead of the vastly superior V Advance is out of his mind. Not to mention V Advance was actually translated. There is no reason to pick the SNES version over the GBA one unless you're alergic to quality GBA games or something. There's absolutely nothing the SNES version of V did that V Advance didn't do better. And yeah, I include music in that. One could argue that IV Advance suffered from too many glitches (at least the US version) and that VI Advance suffered loss in the quality of its music, but there's absolutely nothing wrong with V Advance. It's as good as perfect. Any new version of V that wants to improve upon that will have to do better than changing the character sprites.

That's actually wrong. There are a few valid reasons to like the SNES version. The SNES version has a lot better audio quality, both sound effects and music. The GBA version also has a few minor slowdowns in places where the SNES does not.

Speaking of music, I bet this remake will have an awesome remade soundtrack. I know Dimensions had an incredible sound quality, even better than the original soundtrack, so I guess that's to be expected here.

Originally Posted by VeloZer0

I actually didn't have a whole lot of love for the GBA ports either. I would rater play the originals.

Yeah, GBA version looks ugly and sounds are kind of... off.


EDIT: rather*

You people are weird. How in the name of smurf did the GBA ports look ugly? Aside from the touched up battle-backgrounds in IV and V and some updated character sprites in IV, everything looked the same. Heck, VI was practically unchanged, aside from the smaller screen. I mean, I can get people not liking the PSP port style, but the GBA versions were basically the SNES ones (IV aside, since the game didn't age as well as V and VI graphically) with better translation. If they're ugly, it's like saying the original ones were ugly. Which is okay, if you didn't like the original, but liking the SNES graphically but calling the GBA ugly while they're nearly the same (again, except for IV, it did receive a much needed upgrade) is just weird. Weird.

I think the GBA version was the best so far. And the script is amazing, as it captures that goofy feel of this installment perfectly.

Yeah, sprites are a bit brighter, but there is actually a legitimate reason for this. Graphics were generally made brighter on GBA to make them more visible on the original GBAs, those without backlit LCDs.

But still, it's just not possible to make the audio sound as good on GBA, because it has inferior sound hrdware compared to the SNES.

I like the GBA script as well.