Jun 22, 2025

The Ivalice Chronicles is a remake

 Not a Port, which makes the question: "Is the War of the Lions stuff coming yay or nay?" A LOT MORE Relevant. What I mean, is that they LITERALLY had no source code to work on the game so they had to remake the game from scratch. If they had to redo EVERYTHING from scratch, then it should be eady to implement the WotL characters and extra battles. But this also opens up another can of worms.

Games will be lost forever of they're not preserved via emulation of the legal kind. Even Emulation is problematic as games from certain outdated consoles have issues when emulated. Not naming any games but Superman 64 comes to mind.

This means that games like Parasite Eve, Parasite Eve 2, Xenogears, and Chrono Trigger could be lost forever. Especially since the PE games are stuck in hell due to licensing issues. The others haven't even gotten ports. That's the sad part. In a few years a lot of my favorite games will be gone forever aside of


Piracy. It's unfortunate that LEGAL AVENUES can't be used to preserve this media. 

It's also scary that REMAKES are the only way to play some of these older games... but it also brings a new problem. The Theseus' ship problem. With remakes of remakes of remakes, how much of the original game is left?

So, in a weird way, if Ivalice Chronicles has a port of the OG with it in addition of the remake, then they're truly embracing the future while respecting the past.

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