20th April 2012, 8:52 AM
I gots me a copy of The Lion King the other day. That's one of the more underrated platformers on the SNES I think.
Lemme give you a few details on After Years. The Wii version looks almost identical to the phone version, which is to say, not very good looking. I mean it looks a lot like an early SNES game, not improved a bit. Mind you, some early SNES games looked amazing, but FF4 frankly didn't look that good through most of it (with the exception of enemy monster designs). The PSP version is drastically upgraded both visually and audibly.
That said, it's very weird that instead of porting over the complete 3D remake of FF4 to PSP, they instead decided to redo the original 2D version's graphics and sound and put THAT on the collection instead. As a result, you miss the voice acting, new gameplay mechanics, and a lot of storyline additions from the DS version. Still, the higher resolution graphics and nicer sound quality really do the 2D version a lot of justice. Also, there's a 3rd "in between" game they added to tie the two games together better.
So, I'd say you got an arguably worse version of FF4, but the superior version of After Years.
Lemme give you a few details on After Years. The Wii version looks almost identical to the phone version, which is to say, not very good looking. I mean it looks a lot like an early SNES game, not improved a bit. Mind you, some early SNES games looked amazing, but FF4 frankly didn't look that good through most of it (with the exception of enemy monster designs). The PSP version is drastically upgraded both visually and audibly.
That said, it's very weird that instead of porting over the complete 3D remake of FF4 to PSP, they instead decided to redo the original 2D version's graphics and sound and put THAT on the collection instead. As a result, you miss the voice acting, new gameplay mechanics, and a lot of storyline additions from the DS version. Still, the higher resolution graphics and nicer sound quality really do the 2D version a lot of justice. Also, there's a 3rd "in between" game they added to tie the two games together better.
So, I'd say you got an arguably worse version of FF4, but the superior version of After Years.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)