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The Mana Sword posted...

Hows its stand up to 3 and 4 so far?

3 has the boat and 4 has the balloon. 5.. doesn't have anything major distracting from the dungeon crawling and that's a little odd at first. you're just grinding away. it has a lot of personal touches in the dungeons that make them feel fleshed out. there's probably 7-8 different little unique spots on each floor where something will happen and you'll get an item or some experience or whatever.

everything feels a little better than before. lots of quality of life types of changes that have been woven into the remakes but will feel like a big step forward if you're coming straight from 4.

character creation is deeper now. you choose one of four races and each race has a set of starting classes. you can eventually change classes. you get 8 portraits to choose from, a bunch of different battle voices and can change how your guy looks (hair, skin color, etc).

instead of subclassing, you'll hit a point where you can choose to build your character in one of two ways - so a healer that can learn powerful healing magic or stick with basic stuff and go down a melee path, or a fighter who can focus on bindings or pure strength. that stuff is really fun. the classes aren't great at first but really diversify after you unlock class mastery.

overall it's more of the same but everything is fleshed out more. I'd put it around 4's level. I'm playing on advanced difficulty and it's no joke. the game has had no problem beating me down and I've had to really slowly struggle to get stronger. I think I like it a lot this way but others may want to stick with basic difficulty if they're not super into the series like I am.
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