It depends on what you're after.
It's at its lowest recorded price, $7.49.
- Gameplay: 25 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Controls: 22 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Graphics: 14 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Combat: 24 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
- Difficulty: 12 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
- Crashes: 9 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
Based on 345 player reviews · updated 6 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 123 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
While the open nature of the game and the generation /inheritance system is unique for its time and are good gameplay elements, the sheer number and varying lifespans of each emperor/party member means there's not a lot to follow on a personal level (which may have been the intent?).
With some slight legwork and knowing how controllers connect to Steam, you can 100% have gamepad support with some manual configuration.
Graphics wise the improvements are not stellar: Some of the backgrounds look like they came from an RPG Maker game and the new animation in some of the bosses is jarring, but at least they kept the sprites, those burned by the steam ports of FFV/VI will find some solace here.
The soundtrack, composed by Kenji Ito, is one of the game’s most celebrated elements.
Theme by theme
Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.
Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway.
Should you buy it now?
Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.
Currently $7.49 (−70%). That's the lowest price we've ever recorded.
The data behind the verdict
For the players who want the receipts.
We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.
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