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Edit 2: 50 hours in. I still have had flawless stability and performance without a single crash or other issue. The game is great. Are there things I wish they had changed or updated for this release? Of course there is, but I'm more than happy with what we got. This is Freedom Wars as you remembered, with a streamlined weapon upgrade system and a bit of balance tweaks so that impact weapons aren't a requirement.
The game looks great for a remaster of a portable title. The characters are well designed with interesting clothing, unique personalities and in battle your companions each have their own quirks. Some will be much more inclined to help you when you go down, whereas others are far more aggressive and will constantly try to sever parts from abductors. The music is fantastic, and several tracks produced as in-universe idol music were added to the game that have been released over the years in collaboration with the original release.
I sincerely hope that this game performs well enough financially to warrant a sequel, as it is simply criminal that one hasn't been made yet. The story itself is surprisingly good but ends on a giant reveal that is itself a cliffhanger. A sequel built to modern standards would be absolutely incredible.
And that's it. The game is fun and worth the money.
Short Edit at 17 hours played: The game is better than it has ever been. The community has discovered however that Windows 11 version 24H2 is what is causing all the crashing and stability issues. I have 23H2, have not crashed once and have only had a single frame drop in all the time I've played. If anything I recommend this game even more now. Once I've completed the story and a chunk of endgame I will update once again. As it stands, buy this game, but revert to 23H2 if you are unfortunate enough to have gotten 24H2 before microsoft froze the update.
I don't understand the negative reviews. This is a direct upgrade of the original Vita game. I'm putting my review up early so as to help counter the surge of misinformed negative reviews.
First things first, the "AI" voices. I don't know when we, as a society, became so stupid that we can't differentiate between AI and simply decades old text to speech. The developers made a very smart design decision to use a text to speech engine for the robotic, ironically in universe AI characters in the game to make them seem more authentically robotic. Their speech is supposed to sound artificial, halting and to mispronounce some of the words. Not only does this make Accessories and Percy Propa seem more authentic as robotic characters, it also helps the player differentiate immediately between characters that are human and those that are AI. Using text to speech for the player's Accessory has the added benefit of allowing the Accessory to phonetically speak your character's name.
As for the performance issues that people have had, my only question is what in the world are they running for hardware? The game ran better than perfect for me right from the rip at 4k60. Wtf are people doing for their PC's to be running so badly that they can't run this game. Either that, or there is a bug that is effecting their particular hardware. For reference, I am running an 11900k, a 3080ti and 32gb of ram. The game is installed on a standard ssd.
Finally, as little as I have played I can already say that this is the superior version of Freedom Wars. It runs great, looks and sounds good and controls better than ever.
i will update this review if and when I feel like it once I've put more time into the game. Until then, know that so far I love it and would recommend it to anyone not trying to run the game on their grandmother's HP from '92.