Hardly retro hardware but now with the new version coming out it’s definitely obsolete. Even so I’m still lovin my rp2+. Even my RP3+ hasn’t been able to replace it.
Its a great form factor, is capable of emulating a bunch of decent systems, and functions as a general purpose android device.
FF7 is a game I never played back in the day even though the commercials are still burned into my brain.
While I’m not a huge Final Fantasy guy, I figured I owed it to myself to try and make my way through it. The prerendered scenery mixed with cool stylized polygonal characters is great.
Hope everyone is taking their daily recommended dose of pointless nostalgia gaming ;)
Before last year, I had only played Final Fantasy I & II in the PSX Origins collection for the numbered entries. I had also played Tactics and Tactics Advance, which I was obsessed with when they first came out.
Then starting last year I played VII (the original), Crisis Core Reunion, Final Fantasy III (Pixel Remaster), and I’m currently mostly through IV.
VII never captured my imagination as much as it probably would have in the '90s, but I enjoyed it. I had this impression of the game taking place entirely in a cyberpunk world, and I was slightly bemused to discover that only the first quarter of the game is like that. After that it becomes a standard Final Fantasy game. I did laugh when
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the kaiju attacks started and they started playing a riff on the Godzilla theme music.
I mean, what a weird and eclectic game. I think it would have been stronger and more cohesive if it stayed in the cyberpunk theme rather than switching gears to bright and sunny, chocobos, and snowboarding…