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27 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
The graphics of Vagrant Story is often touted as the best the PS1 could offer but the visual effects were also an incredible showcase! Spells are still a sight to behold even today!

Not only that, sound effects didn't have any samples. They were created by manipulating waveforms
In regards to sound effects in Vagrant Story created by manipulating waveforms, this means that everything you're listening here in terms of ambient sounds like wind, water, birds chirping were made "by hand". Literally transforming noise into lifelike sounds.
This level of craft and mastery is the work of Tomohiro Yajima, a sound engineer still working at Square-Enix.

He notably worked on FFXII, Dragon Quest XI and NieR Automata as Sound Director and Supervisor.
You can check more stuff to learn here. Did you know Hideo Kojima declined to play Vagrant Story as he didn't want to see the difference in quality with Metal Gear Solid 1?

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28 Dec
when people says "this looks like a PS2 game" they forget that PS2 games looked like this
The visual effects on display are also the work of Jiro Mifune, who was previously involved with Vagrant Story.

The same team worked on both games. Sakaguchi was so moved with Vagrant Story that he decided to entrust them with Final Fantasy.
The recent FFXII remaster managed to highlight the technical prowess of the game even more. Amazing how much a 2006 game still holds up to scrutiny thanks to great art direction by the Ivalice team. ImageImageImageImage
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26 Dec
This review of Paradise Killer is still the hardest case of "when you get it but still didn't get it" I've seen. Image
To put a purity test on Vaporwave and call it orientalist (??) is really smoking me
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26 Dec
The Crimson Shroud upscaling project is advancing nicely! There is still a lot of work to be done but I have reached the end of the game and the vast majority of textures have been touched up.

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26 Dec
I have seen people claiming the Octopath Traveler gacha has a better story than the console game if only because the various paths do end up converging to a single narrative, instead of being relegated to a hidden sidequest. This is very interesting.
The gacha game has three different paths to my knowledge: Power, Wealth, and Glory. The new update converged them into a singular story where you fight a super important boss. Basically all three "routes" lead to a climax
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I learned a lot of things in the Kamikokuryo video but what stood out is how FFX's world was centered around the keyword "Asian taste" being a mix of cultures, whereas FFXII's world was more mediterranean but made each country have its own separate culture
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I'm going to give an overview on the people working on FFXVI, where they come from, their experience, and speculate on the people that might also be working on this game but have not been confirmed yet.

TL;DR: FF Tactics/FFXIV fans, you should be excited
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This means that the game will very likely not see any involvement from Nomura, Kitase, Toriyama, and others who worked on and off from FFXIII to FFXV (FF14 excluded).

These people are already busy working on FF7 Remake Part 2 and other projects.
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