I never liked the pre-rendered Squeenix backgrounds, even when FFX and such were just released and hot new games.
On the other hand, I think their CG cutscenes still hold up pretty well today.
Initial Thoughts on Final Fantasy IX
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 On 09/21/2017 at 02:06 PM by Matt Snee See More From This User » |
First of all, while Squeenix is heralding the HD cut scenes, they're just ok - still beautiful, but not near as detailed as the HD cut scenes of X and XII - which is understandable. Secondly, the backgrounds look a little old, and while FFIX had some of the best pre-rendered backgrounds of the era, they don't translate too well to being blown up in HD, so sometimes they look kinda bad. However, what's really impressive is how good the 3D models of the characters look - and not use the main characters either. I'm seeing new details on characters that were so blurry before, and they really have a cute life to them now. For the main characters especially, they have been given new life, as their faces blink and you can see them in crystal clear detail. It's just too bad they couldn't do much with the pre-rendered backgrounds.
The music sounds good, but I don't know if they touched that. Sounds good to my ears. The battles look and feel great. I guess the way I can best express it is that the game now looks like how it always looked like in my memory - but now it's real. Does that makes sense, kupo?
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