![]() ![]() ![]() This remake takes the original Super Nintendo version’s 16-bit graphics and modernizes them by using an HD-2D art style as seen in Square Enix’s Octopath Traveler series and Triangle Strategy. Let’s start things off with the presentation. (Image credit: Windows Central / Square Enix) Live A Live: Presentation and performance Take on the greatest fighters in the world in the Present Day Chapter. The company did not see the contents of the review before publishing. After completing the game, I was genuinely sad when my playthrough ended, as Live A Live was one of the most fun JRPGs I have played in a very long time and is my personal favorite game of 2023 so far.ĭisclaimer: This review was made possible by a review code provided by Square Enix. ![]() Thankfully, my curiosity would be sated as Square Enix provided us with an early review code for the PC version of Live A Live for us at Window Central to review. 27, 2023.Īs a fan of Square Enix’s works since Final Fantasy IX on the PlayStation, I was intrigued by Live A Live’s premise as it was unlike anything I’d seen before aside from Octopath Traveler. Then in 2023, Square Enix announced that Live A Live would be ported onto PlayStation consoles and PC via Steam on Apr. That would all change in 2022 when Square Enix released a remake of Live A Live for the Nintendo Switch and shipped it worldwide for the first time. However, Live A Live was never released outside of Japan despite Square Enix’s growing popularity in the West during the 1990s thanks to successful titles such as Final Fantasy VI and Chrono Trigger. It was praised at the time for its unorthodox style of gameplay and storytelling while boasting a memorable soundtrack and striking visuals. Unlike most JRPGs at the time which had a single 20-to-40-hour storyline, Live A Live was an anthology of short stories that told the tales of various heroes across human history, each with their different tones and settings. In-game screenshot of Live A Live gameplayīack in 1994, Square Enix (or Square Soft as they were known back then) released a unique JRPG for the Super Nintendo called Live A Live.
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