Ok, I never played the OG, and for decades, I have been hearing about how amazing it is. My best friend is quite vocal about it and insisted I play the remaster.

I'm now on the final boss (after slogging through seemingly endless bosses to get to him), and I can't help but feel it's been a slog, a graphically pleasing one, but a slog nonetheless. Quite honestly, I preferred Octopath Traveller.

I have found the characters to be meh. Tifa is far too hot, and the story, so far, has done nothing for me. Combat has been mostly enjoyable. But I'm just pushing through to get it done, I haven't been experiencing any wonder, other than weebing out over Tifa's insane jugs.

Now I wonder if some of the issue is I don't have the necessary nostalgia connection to really get hit in the feels. Like I'm sure if they remade Chrono Trigger like this, I would fucking love it, since I love old RPGs and I still really like the SNES Final Fantasy games, despite the fact you could say they also have kind of shallow stories.

But those old classics have the nostalgia of when I first discovered piracy via emulation and magical youth. Shit, I was even replaying them on Game Boy Advance while waiting around the doctors when my wife was first pregnant, so multi-layer and generational nostalgia.

So yeah, that's my 2 sats.

Any remake fans here?

Unrelated, but nostalgia-gaming related, here is a LEGO Mario set that my mum got. She loves puzzles and lego and decided to get it.