Recent reviews by Hanako

You can pet the dog in Persona 3 Reload

Oh boy, horrors beyond my comprehension.

Whoever designed the ending for the piranha's level 2, please reconsider the next time you get level design privileges.

What's the worst level and why is it Disco?

The game is all about more but it's far too much.

It took me 86 hours of using an autoclicker to get the final achievement

EUH FHULL HAUS

She tastes like bacon

guys, the generator, fix it

The 0 in the logo is not only a reference to the portals you see in the game, but it's also a reference to how many fps you'll get if you don't have anything other than a 30/40 series.

I really have no idea why this game needed to be remastered. The original looked fine! From what I can tell they didn't overhaul much of anything, which might explain why both games are about the same size. *Maybe* some better facial animations but those could have literally been patched into the original game.

Hella disappointing. Stay with the original. It even has a jank VR mod if you're into that sort of thing.

For context, I have ~170 hours of experience with the original release of the game (Steam does not track offline time, it is faster for speedruns to do so). I bought it after all the episodes have been released.

The game looks worse, you'd be pretty hard-pressed to find someone who played the original to say that the remaster is better. Sure, it looks different, the colors are more vibrant, but most maps in this game are dark as hell when they really shouldn't. Max and Chloe, and Jefferson have mildly better facial animations, sure, but looking at both games side by side, the emotion for the scene is way off. Many of the secondary characters were not given this treatment and look worse off than in the original.

Controls feel both more slippery and more stiff at the same time. Interacting with things while moving doesn't properly register your buttons and the camera when playing with a controller moves the camera at full speed as if you were using a keyboard and mouse (and sadly enough, this is tied to framerate).

The original game was somewhere around 14GB, the remaster takes it and balloons it up to 42GB, and it has hardly anything to show for it. Many of the textures look the same or worse.

I attempted to speedrun the game but shocker, all the tricks we found in the original have been patched with the move from Unreal 3 to Unreal 4. During this playthrough, I complied just about everything I found that had been a bug or an annoyance.

Deck Nine says they're working on a patch, but I don't think I would even bother trying to play through it again if it happens. Stick with the original release, looks better, runs better. It wasn't broke. No one should have tried to fix it.