GamesRadar+ Verdict
Pros
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Fast walking/fighting
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All the gameplay/cutscenes of original
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Very old-school
Cons
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Perhaps too simple
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New stylus controls are weak
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Very very old-school
Why you can trust GamesRadar+
You’re thinking: Far East of what? Japan’s thinking: something in Japanese that translates as “Oh, that 2 million selling RPG, which brought proper cutscenes and CD-quality music to the genre via the PC Engine in 1989 and provided admirably stiff competition for yer Final Fantasys and yer Dragon Quests.”
In other words: this remake of Far East of Eden II is big news to those in the know. It’s traditional, all right - village boy sets off for take-turn battles to rescue Japan from demons etc, etc. But what makes this faithful re-release a cut above your average simplistic two-decade-old RPG is, perversely, the simplicity. There’s little to do except walk across a few squares of map and kill the next floating specter with incomprehensible kanji, but it’s all so unexpectedly quick - you walk and fight at super quick speeds - that it’s one of the most mesmerizing things we’ve ever played. Plus, every minute of those anime mini-movies that wowed your (Japanese) dad in ’89 has been crowbarred onto a cart the size of an airmail sticker.
More info
Description | Perhaps this is a game that would really be more at home as a $5 Virtual Console download. But as far as cute, cheerful retro RPGs go, it's certainly worth heading Far East for. |
Platform | "DS" |
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