Great port that I've been running maxed on my middle-of-the-road system (i5-4590/GTX 960/10gb RAM/Windows 10). Much speedier load times than the console versions and you get all the aesthetic options from the PS3 version of the game, which means you can ditch the unnerving 3D portraits and horrific English voice acting straight away. The game runs at 60fps and there's a robust selection of graphics settings to play around with.

Sadly, the game still sucks beacause of:

- Creepy anime sex dolls vaguely emoting every trope under the sun at each other!

- tri-Ace's inability to develop a game that doesn't have annoying pacing issues - hope you enjoy being railroaded into talking to every NPC, grinding for levels and inventions to get past unreasonable difficulty spikes and wandering around aimlessly at regular intervals!

- A god awful racket of a soundtrack by Motoi Sakuraba that's so bad it actually tarnishes my memories of the preceding games' music!

- The worst characters in the series!

- Since it cannot be stressed enough, the WORST characters in the series!

- The worst writing in the series (handily unseating the previous champ, Till the End of Time)!

At least the post-game content is decent and you get four person teams back, right? Not sure why SE thought The Last Hope was the best introduction to the series for Steam users, but look at it this way: no matter which installment comes out next, it'll be an improvement. Maybe grab this one on the cheap during a sale.

Great port that I've been running maxed on my middle-of-the-road system (i5-4590/GTX 960/10gb RAM/Windows 10). Much speedier load times than the console versions and you get all the aesthetic options from the PS3 version of the game, which means you can ditch the unnerving 3D portraits and horrific English voice acting straight away. The game runs at 60fps and there's a robust selection of graphics settings to play around with. Sadly, the game still sucks beacause of: - Creepy anime sex dolls vaguely emoting every trope under the sun at each other! - tri-Ace's inability to develop a game that doesn't have annoying pacing issues - hope you enjoy being railroaded into talking to every NPC, grinding for levels and inventions to get past unreasonable difficulty spikes and wandering around aimlessly at regular intervals! - A god awful racket of a soundtrack by Motoi Sakuraba that's so bad it actually tarnishes my memories of the preceding games' music! - The worst characters in the series! - Since it cannot be stressed enough, the WORST characters in the series! - The worst writing in the series (handily unseating the previous champ, Till the End of Time)! At least the post-game content is decent and you get four person teams back, right? Not sure why SE thought The Last Hope was the best introduction to the series for Steam users, but look at it this way: no matter which installment comes out next, it'll be an improvement. Maybe grab this one on the cheap during a sale.