There seems to be a lot more info here. It looks like they're putting a lot of effort into this remaster, considering I've seen people commenting about how it looks like the game's stats and character/class progression have been rebalanced.
And you can recruit griffins and dragons into your party!
The visuals also don't look like the standard vaseline filter was applied. Maybe it just looks that way because the sprites of some of the characters seem to be quite brightly colored in contrast to the background.
The Nvidia leaks also mention that Matsuno's other masterpiece, Final Fantasy Tactics, was also going to receive a remaster. (FFT is far more widely known on our side of the oceans - though Tactics Ogre was considered far more influential in Japan, one example being that FFXIV's current success can be directly traced back to the existence of Tactics Ogre, as it is the primary reason the current producer wanted to join Square Enix in the hopes of developing a game together with Matsuno. Debates on whether FFT or TO is the superior game seem to mirror debates about whether Planescape: Torment or BG2 is the better game on our side of the gaming sphere. Sometimes they throw one of Matsuno's other games, Vagrant Story, into these arguments too, though it's not a SRPG.)
There were interviews over the years about how FFT was originally going to have a split path narrative with the option to follow Delita's story, but it had to be axed due to dev time and disc space concerns with all effort put into completing Ramza's route instead. I suspect that ever since Matsuno stepped back from working on FFXIV scenarios as a guest writer, he's been working on completing development for that path for the FFT remaster.
I'm also very interested in Diofield Chronicles.
A JRPG utilizing RTwP combat is almost unheard of, and even though I strongly prefer turn-based, I'm compelled to try this out just to see how it works. The console versions are supposed to be getting a demo on the 10th, but seeing as I am PC only, I wonder if there's anyone else here who will try it out and report back here with impressions?
