This review is based on the Linux version 1.0.0, using Ubuntu 14.04 with a nVidia Geforce 640 GT GPU and 8GB of RAM. I love classic JRPG's in general, but I have never played the 16-bit original. I probably wouldn't have liked the original as well, but there are porting issues which I will discuss after discussing the game itself. = Level design = First of all, this game contains so many Labyrinths that it comes across as a gimmick. rather than something which sets a specific level apart from the rest. It slows the pace down to a frustrating crawl. = Graphics = The worst issue I have with the graphics is that they are not clear about which part can be walked upon and which part cannot. This is true both for the 16-bit and the "HD"-graphics, except in towns. The backgrounds have been largely redone and they look the part, but the foreground items and the characters have not. This does have one advantage: You can clearly pick them out from the background. The spell animations are both crude and too long; a spell as ubiquitous as Healing taking 5 seconds?! What a drag... I would not dare to release this as "HD", although admittedly my standards for that are rather high. The option for original graphics and sounds is a nice one, worth one star. = Combat = I don't like the Gathering mechanic, especially because gather levels can be lost by just a slight tap from an enemy. In contrast to this, defending is much more useful than in most JRPG's that I know of. = UI = Nostalgic types will probably adore the spinning selection wheel. I don't. A proper PC port would adapt the UI to the system ported to. In the case of the PC, that means a keyboard by default. The keys cannot be remapped and mapping shows up as tiny characters, hardly readable on Full HD *wink* screens. 1 save game is not enough for a game with many scripted events. = Story = The story is nice, but not enough to compensate for the issues stated above. On top of that the game crashes quite frequently.
