Analysing the FF2 remake trailers
Sep. 18th, 2025 12:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
secretstaircaseWanted to write this because people are already making extremely confident pronouncements about what the game is going to be like (and whether it will be properly classed as a remaster or remake) based on around two minutes of footage shown when it was announced. I'll be looking at the reveal trailer from the Nintendo Direct, and the announcement trailer posted by Koei Tecmo right after.
I mostly wanted to find out exactly how much of the footage we have is cutscenes, because my impression is it's most of it, and it does look like the cutscenes haven't changed very much, except for the obvious graphics enhancements. I also wanted to highlight what gameplay footage we have, because I think it hints at what could possibly be quite extensive changes.
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In conclusion, we have ~12 seconds of gameplay footage and somewhere around 1-2 minutes of cutscene clips - I'm not going to add up the seconds, but when you factor in the logo display time and how much content overlap there is between the trailers, I'd guess closer to a minute. From the teeny, minuscule amount of gameplay footage, there seem to be some quite significant changes. Anyone saying they can already tell it's just a cosmetic update is talking out of their ass.
I mostly wanted to find out exactly how much of the footage we have is cutscenes, because my impression is it's most of it, and it does look like the cutscenes haven't changed very much, except for the obvious graphics enhancements. I also wanted to highlight what gameplay footage we have, because I think it hints at what could possibly be quite extensive changes.
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In conclusion, we have ~12 seconds of gameplay footage and somewhere around 1-2 minutes of cutscene clips - I'm not going to add up the seconds, but when you factor in the logo display time and how much content overlap there is between the trailers, I'd guess closer to a minute. From the teeny, minuscule amount of gameplay footage, there seem to be some quite significant changes. Anyone saying they can already tell it's just a cosmetic update is talking out of their ass.