9th November 2005, 10:23 PM
Haha. But really, it's not cheating so much as taking advantage of a loophole. That's something perfectly acceptable to me so long as it's a single player game.
And, I didn't mean some sort of Black Mages overhaul either. I meant exactly what you meant, completely redone songs wherein tinny 8 bit sound effects are replaced with lush full orchastrated bliss, maybe with a few extra instuments that only add to the song rather than take away. I hardly mean they should turn a boss battle song into heavy rock metal and the love theme into gangsta rap. However, should they decide to take the town themes of a couple of the towns that get totally devastated and change it to fit the new mood of the location, I'm all for it. In FF1, all the towns had the same music. This was fine except in one town, it is a ghost town full of shadows and a brooding king ruling over nothing. The music really doesn't fit. So, they updated it. The standard town music just had that total overhaul into orchastrated mode, and it sounded great for it. However, that town got a special remix of the town music. It sounded depressing which fit the location a lot better. It, in all ways, could only really be considered an improvement.
And yes ABF, I know of what you speak. They even took out the very last form of the final boss (though that's the least of the major changes). Now, if they decide to do an update of that magnitude, that's fine, but what I would really have liked is if they tossed in the original version. GBAs have GBC hardware in there, it's not like that would be a HARD thing to do.
And, I didn't mean some sort of Black Mages overhaul either. I meant exactly what you meant, completely redone songs wherein tinny 8 bit sound effects are replaced with lush full orchastrated bliss, maybe with a few extra instuments that only add to the song rather than take away. I hardly mean they should turn a boss battle song into heavy rock metal and the love theme into gangsta rap. However, should they decide to take the town themes of a couple of the towns that get totally devastated and change it to fit the new mood of the location, I'm all for it. In FF1, all the towns had the same music. This was fine except in one town, it is a ghost town full of shadows and a brooding king ruling over nothing. The music really doesn't fit. So, they updated it. The standard town music just had that total overhaul into orchastrated mode, and it sounded great for it. However, that town got a special remix of the town music. It sounded depressing which fit the location a lot better. It, in all ways, could only really be considered an improvement.
And yes ABF, I know of what you speak. They even took out the very last form of the final boss (though that's the least of the major changes). Now, if they decide to do an update of that magnitude, that's fine, but what I would really have liked is if they tossed in the original version. GBAs have GBC hardware in there, it's not like that would be a HARD thing to do.
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