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A lot of people are buying Final Fantasy games on Steam right now! So I'm gonna start tweeting about my experience playing Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X HD Remaster simultaneously. Hopefully someone will find this intriguing.
Most people know about the changes to the main characters faces and the higher resolution textures, but I'm not sure people know just how weird these faces can look at times or how drastically different the lighting can be.
The fire in the center of this room doesn't seem to affect Tidus nearly as much. You can also see some blacked out textures behind him.
Please take a look at HD Tidus's eyes.
Models seem to only ever be fully lit, or fully dark, with very little noticeable directional lighting or nuance.
Here in this underwater bit they changed the behavior of the distance fog. This really alters the look of this area, which is supposed to have low visibility except for some lights you can make out at any distance.
The lighting inside temples has really changed.
Not always going to have something in particular to say about a set of shots other than "hey, this looks worse"
No idea where this new source of blue light is coming from.
A good example of everyone being more flatly lit when it doesn't make sense to do so.
For some reason these new faces have real trouble fully closing their eyes.
Some effects have their bottoms cut off for some reason. Also some worse lighting here.
Pre-rendered scenes are cropped to 16:9. Never a great move.
Most of the time the HD textures are fine, but this is a pretty embarrassing example of things going wrong.
Oof
Mods are asleep, post HD Tidus eyes
Oh you wanted those characters lit?
Turns out smiling is frowned upon
