This soundtrack is truly nothing short of a miracle! Live A Live was honestly well worth the 28 year wait.

Each chapter is then topped off by a superb rearrangement of Megalomania that just completely hypes you up to take on the boss in front of you. From the beautiful and immersive sound of traditional Chinese instruments as you walk along a Chinese mountain to the modern instruments used in the near future helps emphasise each time period’s feel and mood just perfectly. Yoko Shimomura returned to do the music for this game, and you can tell because these rearrangements do the originals justice and then some. This game is just pure eye candy and, on an OLED, display it’s even better than words can describe. Rocks on cliffs, bamboo forests, the market stalls in a market and so many more.

Every single environment is unbelievably gorgeous and stunningly detailed, characters look sharp, the colourful environments that blend so seamlessly with the 3D aspects. Each story has been translated from the beautiful pixel art on the Super Famicom original perfectly to the home of HD-2D the Nintendo Switch. The graphics in this game are stellar, it’s easily the best-looking HD-2D game yet and Octopath Traveler & Triangle Strategy are already phenomenal looking games. There's almost something for everyone here. You can select from any of the 7 there is no set path in how you play this game, each story is self-contained, and you can save and exit out of them whenever you want! Each character represents a different genre, for example in the Present Day you take control of a fighter Masaru Takahara in a street fighter style RPG tournament and The Distant Future is kind of like a visual novel where you experience a story through the eyes of a little robot. You are presented with 7 different characters all relating to a different time period. First of all, this game is so unique in the extremely broad JRPG genre, and you really feel that from each chapter and that novelty never First of all, this game is so unique in the extremely broad JRPG genre, and you really feel that from each chapter and that novelty never disappears.

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