What different between this refine

[bridgeofblues]

I own refine and I wondering if this is worth picking up.

[Pixel Peeper]

It's basically a re-release of Refine, with a few differences.

The translation is better. There's a gallery where you can view the pictures of the endings/vacations you unlocked. You can see your stats on the side of the screen. The music is different. There's some more censorship.

Admittedly it's super pricy for a re-release, especially when the DOS version is still floating around.

[bridgeofblues]

Originally posted by Pixel Peeper:

It's basically a re-release of Refine, with a few differences.

The translation is better. There's a gallery where you can view the pictures of the endings/vacations you unlocked. You can see your stats on the side of the screen. The music is different. There's some more censorship.

Admittedly it's super pricy for a re-release, especially when the DOS version is still floating around.

I'm curious what censorship? Is it just to make it a bit more appropriate?And a little bit less cringe.

[Pixel Peeper]

Originally posted by bridgeofblues:

I'm curious what censorship? Is it just to make it a bit more appropriate?And a little bit less cringe.

Some vacation images, some monsters, some event images while adventuring, and some ending images.

In particular the harpy looks completely different, which is a shame, she had this awesome creepy alien demon look before.

[Mustachious]

Yeah, a little more tame and a little less cringe. Like the awkward "gratuitous" crotch shot on one of the military endings was redrawn to be a cleavage shot instead lmfao. IMO this version is more enjoyable for two big quality of life reasons: the stats are always visible on screen without having to go into a menu, and secondly there is an ending and vacation album gallery so you can keep track of all your endings in one place without having to rely on wonky Steam achievements or keeping track of them yourself. (As PP pointed out these features already, I'm just saying those are the two that sold the game for me)

All of the ending and vacation artwork is completely redrawn. Even the ones that weren't 'censored' still are new art. Some of the new art is really cool, some of the old art is really cool... it's really a matter of preference.

It is a bit pricey but PM games tend to go half off pretty regularly so I would imagine it's only a matter of time before this one does, too.

[Pixel Peeper]

I will admit, it's absurd that the previous versions showed so much information in the main screen, including some quite useless bits of information, but never bothered to display your Stress, the one stat you have to watch the most in the entire game. Regeneration does display it, which is very convenient.

I'm a huge fan of the original art (for everything, not just vacations), I think it looks way better than the new stuff. Of course, it's all subjective.

Yes, assuming the publisher isn't too used to Japanese online sale customs (it usually takes a long time for Japanese games to go on sale, and they tend to be very small sales at first), we'll see the game at -50% less than a year after it's out, like so many other games on Steam. The premium price is just for people who really want it now.