Pasokon Deacon
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- Jul 9, 2024
- #37
Lyriell said:
You'll need to ask Konami; Hudson Soft developed Faxanadu, not Falcom. I'd use my hope elsewhere.
Kain-Nosgoth said:
Hopefully they don't change the writing too much for Sky... altough fanservice will definitely be added in some way
Mao's hot springs near Zeiss might get a little more graphic, but unless they're adding more scenes in and around the Royal Academy, I don't see a lot of obvious ways they can get more horny in FC's case. Who knows how faithful or Liberl they'll be with a remade script, of course. Daybreak shows that they're cutting down on the otaku bait in key areas.
Dogui said:
If there's an Ys V remake, i hope they do it like in the Origin/Felghana style instead of the party based ones.
It'd most likely have a two-fighter system like Ys X. There's precedent for this in Ys V via your pseudo-genie companion Stoker, who had a more involved role in the game's novelization which Falcom will very likely take bits from.
Dandy Crocodile said:
Maybe once Kondo's in his 60s and needs to get White Witch remade before becoming chairman, lol.
mattneil8 said:
Pretty sure the "remake" is Ys vs. Trails in the Sky as it leaked somewhere. Cool that they're trying to do quicker releasing barring the typical NISA bugs and questionable translation quality.
I think NISA would simply commission a modern port, like they did with Nayuta, and reuse The Geofront's fan translation + new edits. It's too much of a B-tier spinoff to hog Falcom's production pipeline vs. Sky FC/SC or Ys V.
Atom said:
Sky is perfect as is, just do modern ports with the Evo VA and let Xseed handle the western release.
Curious about xanadu as a new IP. Hopefully it means less carry over from Tokyo Xanadu. Doubt they'll go back to Next but something distinct from what they've done before would be neat.
Sky really just needs a remaster, bringing the best parts of XSEED's releases and the Evo ports together. I get that some have skipped those games because of graphics or QoL preferences (the latter of which has been greatly addressed on PC), but they mainly need to wrap up the series and move on to all those experiments Kondo keeps teasing. Whether or not we ever get something like Xanadu Next again, Falcom just needs to get the Trails albatross off their necks in a reasonable amount of time. Remaking earlier games can and should come later (unless they deem Sky remakes an emergency-glass solution to missed sales forecasts).
Franky D Tank said:
I really hope that Sky doesn't get a whole on 3D remake. While it still has its problematic elements, a good bit of it was tempered by the fact that some of the more problematic designs couldn't be seen at all times. With how horny Falcom has gotten in recent times, I don't trust them to not make worse decisions in the remake. There's also the fact that the more modern games don't translate certain tones as well, and there's a particular moment in Sky 3rd that I feel Falcom could easily fumble hard with how they've done things.
Their worst excesses from the Cold Steel days are getting reduced, if not possibly eliminated as of Daybreak. Yeah, they aren't going to reach the levels of trusting an adult/relatively mature audience to buy less fanservice-y stuff like in the mid-2000s, but just moving past harem tropes is a huge win for the latest arc. WRT Sky in 3D, my biggest concern would be them reusing the standard gendered body types for main characters like in recent games, rather than more bespoke models. They need to do a better job of reflecting official art/concepts and not just slapping on the same shapes out of convenience.
Dinoegg_96 said:
I hope the younger staff got better with the years. The original Tokyo Xanadu had potential, but the gameplay wasn't stellar and the characters/story were generic as hell.
Falcom usually hires a few or several at most, enough to replace retirees and gradually expand production capacity. A bunch of the OG Tokyo Xanadu-era hires came onboard while Falcom was transitioning from PC to PSP, so their interests and strengths are also felt in games like Nayuta and Memories of Celceta. I'd be surprised if the new Toxanadu is hugely better than its predecessor, shocked if worse.
