The endless variations and deviations from MCU in current Marvel products seem very deliberate to me as a response to the corner Star Wars EU stuff got painted into
This way they don’t have to worry about continuity or even coming up with new ideas, but can continue to deliver product constantly
Canonizing the multiverse is just the post cinematic universe way of reverting to the 1980s model of license and sell the Shit out of wvwrything
Yeah, I think Marvel still allows videogamey videogames. It’s just that Crystal Dynamics and Square chose to make a Marvel Cinematic Universe game and only seemed to realize halfway in that they’d made a massive strategic blunder, unable to get the actor licenses but restricted to the visual palette of the movies.
Meanwhile Insomniac just pitched ‘a Spiderman game’ and hit a broadly acceptable videogame outcome while incorporating some of the tonal qualities of the modern movies.
God I love Grandia 1, this looks just slightly improved not tampered with, in fact the audio sounds better too though I don’t know if that’s actually happening. Like Justin’s V-Slash seemed notably less compressed.
That part of Battle 1 in common with Iwadare’s battle tracks in Lunar @ 2:00 <3
an interview said they’re basing the Grandia port on the PSX version and not the Saturn version
of course since I read this on resetera, most of the posts after that were announcements that the game was no longer under consideration of purchase
i think it’s a big shame they haven’t joined in the “first official translation ever” train and included a port of grandia digital museum. (grandia parallel trippers would also be eligible, but grandia parallel trippers fuckin sucks)
I forget all the technical reasons as to why original Saturn JP is superior and have wanted to play it with an English patch, think I posted about that a long while back. Ultimately with this version an option for original JP voices just meets the standard, so
- In the E3 2019 show floor demo of Grandia HD Collection , the battle ability voices were in English despite selecting Japanese voice-overs.
I…can live with the ruff old eng, but please.
I also found out about a in-progress hack of Saturn Grandia that dumps in the US PSX script from that same resetera thread
hmm
hmm indeed
Only problem I can see with Trials is all the popup handholding text, which will probably be able to be turned off, so I’m down
it looks good, I’m about it.
honestly, 3D action Mana is 
now give it multiplayer
It can’t hope to capture the sheer clout of SDIII’s pixelwurx but I’m willing to wager it’s a better videogame in the end
Looking forward to the new arrangement of Powell and some other all-timer BGM cuts like
also
man dang is Powell good though. Really hope they don’t butcher it
A challenge to outdo that snare
