Man I want to believe Tales of Graces took notes from this game even if it was released 9mo later and too late for it because they are so much alike, tack in Melon Usk and you have easily top3 of cringelis crongelis for the last 15 years and a change.

The story and character acting/directing got me squirming on my couch and rolling my eyes back like I'm going full zombie in post-apo worlld except I get play the part of one armed pirate slot machine considering how my eyeballs roll around and keep going.

First I thought I just got old but then the suppressed memories resurface from early adulthood when I played this game originally on ps3 in university and oh boy it has aged like milk left in sunlight, from the lame USTA director to naive officers on the field and down to party members acting like hysterical teenagers when they should be young adults it's just sad.

I was so close to naming Edge to Emo after his outburst over natives and consequences of his naive optimism and the first part of Roak makes him act like ♥♥♥♥♥♥ because story demands it and instead of his party telling him to scream into a pillow or pound sand he just flip flops around like an imbecile, not to mention Faize copping out later in the story.

At least Crowe and Arumat are decent even if latter is Walmart Sephiroth and former's ending was the only amazing thing he got to do considering how he's missing most of the time and has to come and wipe Edge's ass time and time again. And childhood couple winning by default, along with chicken & cat duo antics is a nice thing in my books. And Shimada turned into dust on the dark side of Moon got a chuckle out of me, after all these years.

Now after venting out that from the air lock let's get to the actual technical parts of the game on Steam, and the quality of the remaster port chain or more like the lack of it.

Pros:
* With steam your wireless controller like dualsense works without extra hoops to jump through.
* Well that's embarrassing as I can't think anything else, whew.

Cons:
* Game doesn't even support alt+f4, borderless window, and is always on top in windowed mode which is downright insulting as a PC game.
* The resolution support is abysmal and even with just 1440p and not even 21:9 you get odd issues with the fullscreen on how it works and tries to render.
* Swapping around O and X for example in playstation controller scheme via menus doesn't work at all and you luckily can use Steam's per-game override to swap them around.
* You need to mod playstation icons and borderless window support in but these can cause crashes.
* You need to run the game as an admin otherwise you get crashes due to .dll access violations.
* The game even with modern rigs can drop down to single digit FPS during VFX busy boss fights where everyone throws their flashbangs into the soup.

Now the actual game design and oh boy it is pretty much as rancid as it can be.

* Early X360/PS3 era graphical performance budget clearly asked for Todd of Oblivion to phone in some butter faces and jarring sprites and animation for the game that it's uncanny now as it was back then.
* Combat AI for enemies and non-PC controller allies is downright DMC2 tier, or well maybe two DMC2's worth because they actually move and chase, only the PC though so you can easily make them run in circles.
* The healers and casters don't do their job and just stand around even if they could be keeping buffs up all the time after you disable their offensive spells, maybe because they aren't actually needed in this daycare.
* Myuria's AI programmer should just go to hospice already as to why does the AI, when set to "stay out of trouble", suddenly run in from the edge of map to bonk the boss in face with her staff?
* The combat difficulty is just a joke, you don't even need to be over-leveled for the game to turn into daycare tier nappy time snoozefest on Galaxy where enemies don't get to do a thing as you mow them down.
* Even on Chaos you only run into issues with GC & EQ and then you just learn to break the combat design via maximum cheese and grind if you're into masopig oink oink for their extra-winged modes on Universe or Chaos.
* The items outside of resurrection and maybe cures for silence items are completely useless and horrible clutter.
* The crafting system is complete nothingburger until you get Synthesis and then start rolling stats into stats like you're a dumbo putting a dimension bag on another dimension bag, only needed for cheesing.
* Item gathering is tedious and as the crafting system is not necessary as you never run out of of shop-based curables and you really don't need to visit the points.
* The travel map and monster design is only interesting in the optional dungeons because the world barely even reacts to the PC as you zoom past and would like to make it fast to clean area by chaining ambushes.
* The way non-melee characters and enemy AI is designed very much means that playing as a ranged or caster character of your party is tearfully bad, bland or just a chore as you run away outside of Rush B.

Well I guess I could on and on but I don't really even care, and I bought this and the ps3 original from sale both so I guess I got hours out of them both and I advise you to do the same, about the sale part and keep in mind the technical "limitations" of this so called Remaster.

Now to decide if I want to revisit Resonance of Fate at all because oh boy I'm not getting the hours from this revisit back and I didn't even particularly even enjoy most of the combat outside of playing with Arumat or Meracle.

Our position is correct, except no Earth.
It ain't there, It's been totally blown away, 'KAY.