It’s late and I just finished putting an inordinate amount of time on a project that I have not felt the need to do in years. I have not really cared or worried about the time that has passed or felt that the pure joy from embarking on this project would bring me. Yes, the joy of playing a video game. If you say that playing the game was not a worthwhile project, then we go to the Merriam-Webster’s definition and have entry – A planned undertaking: such as a definitely formulated piece of research.
So there we go, I was doing research for story telling. How do you take a game … legacy at this point, and Remake it ie: to make anew or in a different form.
Assuming that everyone who saw the Remake title, myself included, would think “ohh, it’s different, the same with some updates.” That’s not it. This is taking a legacy and doing so much more to it.
Those originally involved stated that they would never touch the story unless they could make it better and I believe that they’re well on their way. I’m not a reviewer, I’m not going to say anything about the technics, the details that a reviewer needs to look at to say that a game gets so many of the cherished stars, or if hard earned money should be invested.
This game made me cry for the beauty, the sorrow and tragedy that unfolds. Anger for the way that pixels are treated and gasp from a few different lines, lines delivered by secondary characters; throw-away characters.
I’m not going to spoil the game, i’m just going to say that it’s good, well worth spending both time and money on. Like any good project.
I wasn’t sure about buying this and investing the time. But, I find myself home alone and with the non-working hours that I usually put, detrimentally, zoning out on Twitter now gone; let it be known that a hiatus will assuredly have you recalculating your personal time in different ways.
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