Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army – PlayStation 2 can be considered as one of the most “golden” gaming systems ever produced, and also this system witnessed the development and popularity of Japanese role -playing games (JRPG) to the global scope, with many extremely excellent games, making names for many Japanese leading Japanese game manufacturers today.

In the trend of Ramake, Reboot, Remaster in the past few years, these studios also want to bring their once “golden” games to new gamers, can see Square Enix has been extremely “quick” to redo the games Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age, Konami Do “revive” Sukoden good Tri -ce with Star Ocean: The Second Story R…

With the reception of a large number of new gamers, Atlus has “won the rush” to release the extra story with a long name: Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army.

Let MarkGame learn the game through the following review, guys!

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Quality “modern”!

It must be said that despite Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army As a game launched in 2006 on the old PlayStation 2 system, but it is undeniable that this is a game built with many new elements, when combined with the “slap” tactics both graphics and sound in this launch, so the experience gives gamers no different from the new JRPG games launched in the market in the past few years.

The first impression that the game left for the player is the image quality is upgraded extremely well.

It must be known that one of the most difficult factors for the process of “reciting” the classic games on the PlayStation 2 platform is the models with low polygonal amounts, creating a certain deviation with the factors that the “game” team can intervene.

This makes even “cover” the surface pattern (texture) of high quality, or using advanced ball effects such as Ray Tracing, the graphics quality in these “Remastered” games is still extremely nervous, can be mentioned. Grand theft Auto III Remastered Also first launched on the PlayStation 2 system most evident in this issue, while with the game again made from the “high life” systems like Red Dead Redemption PC Even though the “game” team does not need to manipulate too much, it can still bring the quality of graphics that are easy to accept for modern gamers.

But Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army Almost “immune” with “warping” often found on these “Remastered” versions.

The key is that the graphic style of the game's anime, making the model even built with a small amount of polygons is still much easier to accept.

In addition to not being able to interfere with the number of polygons on the model, or the ability to pour the ball and lighting, the remaining “picture” is done very well by the “game” team, even saying that it is extremely impressive with a game that is nearly 20 years old. For example, the texture in the game is upgraded to a modern HD standard, or the player is selected with many different resolutions and display rates.

The quality of upgrades takes place evenly on the characters and in the environment, creating a consistency and impressive feeling like a modern game rather than a game of a 6th -generation gaming machine.

It is worth noting that all the conversations in the game are voiced with two English – Japanese languages, bringing vitality to the conversations more than the “word running” on the original version, creating a more vivid and connected experience.

Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army It also owns a completely new menu (menu) system with a simpler design, easier to access items or features than traditional menu.

Of course, if you want, you can completely transfer to the old menu form (menu) to find “nostalgic feeling” on the original game.

…Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army Almost “immunity” with “warping” often found on Remastered versions …

The plot and gameplay of the game remain the same as on the version launched in 2006, but it must be said that the quality of the game is completely as the quality of modern JRPG games.

It must be known that in 2006 was the time when the leading studios in the JRPG genre tested new development directions, separating the heavy play “plowing” and turn -based fighting style in the land of the rising sun for more than 2 decades. It is also the time when the plot motion is developed in a simpler, more accessible way than the method of leading the plot full of mysteries in the previous decade.

All this makes Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army Becoming a lot more modern with a real -time fighting mechanism with the support of the teammates, quite similar to JRPG games launched in the past few years.

Meanwhile, the plot has a very fit, divided into “cases” somewhat similar to the game series Ace Attorney. In particular, each case is a fighting fight with the supernatural forces that your character must solve to bring peace to the real world.

In a certain way, this approach is also good and bad. Good is a moderate -controlled storyline, enough for players to emphasize enjoy, even thinking according to the story circuit of each case, without feeling the long journey like traditional JRPG games. But the bad side is that this way will make the player feel the game is repeated, will mention more clearly in the following section.

Even the “game” group has added a super easy option to reduce the dry “plowing” elements that allows modern players to experience the plot in the simplest way.

In addition, there are many new factors integrated, although not changing the overall experience compared to the original version launched in 2006, but also makes the experience a bit “dry” of the original game become smoother.

For example, the monster mechanism of the original version is somewhat like a Pokemon game, now you can have exchanges with these monsters similar to the above. Persona 5Quicksave mode allows you to save the game fast at any time, or some descriptions have been rewritten to allow players to better understand some skills or items.

The improvement is small but the most impressive is that the perspective in battle can be controlled quite freely with an analog needed or mouse, bringing a more comfortable fighting feeling, avoiding the situation sometimes covered with extremely uncomfortable characters on the original version before.

Overall, it can be seen as Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army As a succeeding, not only “revived” a nearly 20 -year -old game, but also brings a new experience for modern gamers.

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A few “grains”!

Despite achieving extremely good quality as a “back” of a nearly 20 -year -old game, but Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army There are still a few small “graves”.

The first “grain of grain” is at the camera view.

When not in the battle map, the camera is often “locked” in a perspective of the intention from the usual style game director of this period game, but it is quite difficult to see and easily causing discomfort to modern players who are familiar with the view that the camera is anchored into the character.

For example, there are times when the characters are hidden behind obstacles, or the roads/turns are hidden and forced the player to flip over to see if the map to check whether they go wrong or not. If it is not too familiar with the arrangement of the rotation angle … almost this extinction, you will feel a bit uncomfortable with having to stop the play process to detect the map, and this game takes time for new gamers to adapt.

In addition, there are some models that still have surface patterns (texture) with original materials instead of being enhanced like most of the surrounding models, creating unsatisfactory “grit particles” compared to the overall image quality.

Finally, the gameplay of Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army There is a repetitive structure, repeated easily causing boring for players. You will start with a certain event, through the conversations of finding clues, fighting monsters from small to large, “plowing” and practicing skills, so that when you have enough strength and clues of the case, you can find the boss and … to handle them beautifully to end.

This process will be repeated several times and can make players feel bored, especially the game mode is difficult to require high for the ability to “plow the game”, it is easy to erode the patience of players in cases near the game. Quite similar to the type of fans Detective Conan Starting impatient with the long -lasting case loops after … 100 tankubon volumes were released.

This is definitely the largest and most annoying minus point in both the original version and in the Remastered version. However, this factor is also something that the “game” team cannot interfere because it is in the basic design of the game, unless it is redone the whole game structure from the beginning like the beginning. Final Fantasy Vii Remake new improvement.

In general, if you accept all these factors Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army Still a very good JRPG title to experience.

… the gameplay of Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army There are quite a lot of repetitive segments