What is actually wrong with this port?

[xldcreflexlx]

I really want to buy this because I have only played a short portion of the original snes version but people seem to hate this version but what exactly is actually wrong with it ?

[Spectral_Orion]

You ought to go over the user reviews: graphics that looked worse than the original SNES game, bad user interface that just recycles the touch screen from the mobile port, low framerate, etc. You're better off either getting the original SNES version or the Nintendo DS port.

[Shucks]

It has poor image filtering (so it looks way uglier and clunkier than the real game) and they used a much ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ remade soundtrack.

[FEGuy]

For starters, it's essentially running inside an Android emulator; you'll need more hardware power to get smooth performance, and the interface remains largely the same as the mobile version, which wasn't designed to account for a hands-off, open screen.

On top of that, the sprite filtering, which is supposed to make the game look smoother, ends up breaking a lot of tilesets. If you look at some of the pictures others have posted, it's most obvious in the forest tiles on the world map, where parts of trees don't line up correctly or have very noticeable edges around tile clusters.

The rest might be subjective - the font and DS re-translation, for example, but it's without question a low-effort port.

[Turbo Nozomix]

It has touch-screen controls and an overly-large interface, rather than the slick and suited-for-controllers / keyboard interface of the original SNES version.

It is a port of the NDS / mobile version, rather than the SNES ROM.

The music re-mastering sounds much worse than the original SNES job:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/613830/discussions/0/1693788384146408795/

There is no indication that the player can select whether to use the original English translation from the SNES version, or the NDS re-translation. Which translation is better is up to preference. I think the NDS version's translation lost a lot of the charm of the original release's translation.

There are no screen-filtering options.

[Dzaka]

since its the ios port it doesn't have any of the anime cinematics that the nds version had. meaning that it might have the fight with the dream devourer but it won't have the corrisponding cinematic that ties it to chrono cross

[WesleyB]

http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/613830/ss_13ffdf40e86c161948a575e25f6c6c184423aeb6.1920x1080.jpg?t=1519755107

Look closely - with this tiling (not to mention filtering artefacts), what isn't wrong?

[xldcreflexlx]

Originally posted by Orion-the-Absol:

You ought to go over the user reviews: graphics that looked worse than the original SNES game, bad user interface that just recycles the touch screen from the mobile port, low framerate, etc. You're better off either getting the original SNES version or the Nintendo DS port.

See I did look at the steam review and while they mention some of the problems people have mentioned here they provided no examples or silly reviews just "don't get it" which is useless

I understood the tile problem but as far asI know that isn't exclusive to this port of the game some of the emulator consoles have a similar if not the same problem as some users said the soundtrack is a little different and the translations aren't the same I would prefer the original translations as one user said it helps keep the charm of the game

I think the biggest issue to me for buying this version would be that it uses touch control boxes on screen and I really think that is a massive put off it just takes up screen space that it just has no business taking up

But thanks to everyone who gave some answers here