Zwei: The Arges Adventure

Bad localisation with internet meme text that gets irritating eXCEEDingly (get it?) fast. XSEED once again proves they're pure garbage. (Quick update: there's a reference to Hatred in game (just as bad as Sei Madou Monogatari having DSP referenced) and the Steam community items are pure cringe. Gee thanks.) That aside something worse is probably the state of the game. Videos might not play on Windows or Linux without enabling an old codec from Intel from Windows 95 with security issues on Windows and on Linux finding and installing said Codec into the Prefix. Why XSEED didn't update at least this is beyond me as it makes me feel like they just took the original 2001 release and just dumped it without much care. Screen options are only available as command line options rather than just being in game (why is pixel perfect only available through this???). The Japanese voices aren't included in the game so you're given the joy of only having English dub (vomit) (a mod fixes this). And to be expected the game is locked to 30FPS because of the game speed, although I expected this compared to the other glaring issues. The only positive I can say is that they added tutorials in game for controls and some game mechanics. I'd be fairly lost without knowing some of the stuff mentioned in them. (I didn't even know how to save, maybe I missed it but I'm not sure and I'm doubting myself.) Combine all this and you get a really lackluster and poor re-release that feels incredibly scrapped together just to push out ASAP for something on the release calendar. Aside from XSEED being XSEED, the game is charming but flawed so far. I feel this has a similar issue to Gurumin where you aren't fully instructed easily where to go but at least it was more obvious in Gurumin as here I've felt overwhelmed and confused in scenarios. You can only level up by eating food which might become an issue later on opposed to being able to get EXP from enemies as well like Nayuta no Kiseki. But all the art looks absolutely beautiful, this game really is gorgeous and looks full of life, especially the music from jdk. It's nice to hear some more music from Wataru Ishibashi as his music was some of the stuff that defined Sora no Kiseki FC to me. It's also nice to be playing another Falcom game that isn't in 3D as their games in this style really scratch an itch for something I'm looking for (As long as they aren't going through PH3's terrible AI Upscaler).