This is 100% pure nostalgia and personal opinion talking, but I thought all the original script needed was a good editor (with the patient of a saint; I will be the first to admit that there were some terribly translated lines and outright errors in the original).
The new version is way too purple script and pseudo Shakespeare for me to find engaging.
Yes, the framing device is that we're being told the story through the eyes of a historian, but now that the entire script reads like a reenactment I feel way more removed from it. As terribly translated and rife with errors and anachronisms ("Geronimo!" anyone?) the original is, there's an earnest charm to it that I feel the new version lacks.
I will be the first to admit that I would probably not have this preference if I hadn't played the original version first, but unfortunately for the remake, it couldn't overcome years of happy* memories that I associate with the PSX version.
Aside: And don't even get me started on the iOS/Mobile version's art style...
*relatively, anyway; the Riovanes Castle battle gauntlet still gives me nightmares, an impression that I haven't improved by playing a bunch of challenge runs
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The new version is way too purple script and pseudo Shakespeare for me to find engaging.
Yes, the framing device is that we're being told the story through the eyes of a historian, but now that the entire script reads like a reenactment I feel way more removed from it. As terribly translated and rife with errors and anachronisms ("Geronimo!" anyone?) the original is, there's an earnest charm to it that I feel the new version lacks.
I will be the first to admit that I would probably not have this preference if I hadn't played the original version first, but unfortunately for the remake, it couldn't overcome years of happy* memories that I associate with the PSX version.
Aside: And don't even get me started on the iOS/Mobile version's art style...
*relatively, anyway; the Riovanes Castle battle gauntlet still gives me nightmares, an impression that I haven't improved by playing a bunch of challenge runs