LIVE A LIVE

真短，配不上价格

被网上的好评价骗了，想来是某种幸存者偏差：本就小众的游戏只有喜欢的玩家才会发言，大多数人买都不会买 玩了三个小时三条故事线决定弃坑了，可惜了一百来块钱。本作放在30年前可能算得上优秀，从当今的视角来看内容非常匮乏，而且充斥着被一部分老玩家甘之如饴并称之为Jrpd的“醍醐味”的恶心人要素： 毫无提示只能靠查攻略得来的所谓隐藏内容 猜错一步就无法回头只能读档重来的无厘头选项 密度极高无法加速毫无乐趣的重复杂兵战 某个技能特别突出最优解是无限复读的低能战斗系统 折磨，无聊。 如果读到上面那些能让你想起一些熟悉的游戏机制，会心一笑甚至想反驳我一下，那么这游戏推荐给你。 否则，只要你是个脑子没病的现代玩家，绝对不推荐。

Not at all what I was expecting - maybe chose the wrong chapter to start with as it felt very slow in the beginning. Once I did push through a little and started doing more chapters, I felt way more engaged and loved the tone that was set. Emotions aside, great 2D-3D remake with nice surprises and (of course) amazing soundtrack!

The 23 hours I spent playing LIVE A LIVE felt like some of the longest 23 hours of my life, and I mean that literally, because I feel like I should have 60 hours in this game by now. It took me two full months to get through this very short game, and it felt like a chore every time I sat down to play it. I don’t dislike the concept at all, and I actually think it’s quite cool getting to have the JRPG experience placed into a bunch of different settings and time periods. However, I found most chapters getting tedious after just 10-15 minutes of playing, and unfortunately the stories weren’t captivating enough to keep me engaged. Everything just takes so long, from animations to leveling to traversal, and it doesn’t help that the objectives are often confusing and unclear. The combat, while a little interesting, also ended up being quite annoying most of the time. Pretty much every enemy in the game, bosses included, either dies in 2 hits or can kill you in 2 hits, with very little in between, meaning almost every fight either feels too easy or too hard. There’s a pretty insane base range for the damage of your attacks, and trying to account for stat buffs and weaknesses/resistances felt totally useless—I’d often deal more damage from a “low” damage attack on an enemy’s resistance, than a “high” damage attack on their weakness, without any explanation provided for why. Further, the way the turn system works is convoluted, and it was never clear to me when my characters would get to go next, because enemies’ bars would sometimes completely refill when mine didn’t move at all. The one saving grace of LIVE A LIVE is its music, because Yoko Shimomura created a masterpiece of a soundtrack for this game (as she always does). That, and the visual style—this game does have some pretty great cinematic moments, especially in the true ending route. But honestly, it was just a chore to play, so I can’t really recommend it.

A fun game if you're a diehard RPG freak who wants to enjoy an retro game they missed in the SNES era, but it definitely is an acquired taste. Each character's scenario can be relatively unique, but because of this, some of them weren't given as much attention as others, and most of them are over before you even realize it. The old school game design also gets in the way more often than not, i.e. the weirdly grindy "crafting and upgrading systems"; plus the old RPG crutch of "just do high level ability & healing spam" being the most effective strategy. I say play it to experience a lost RPG that was never translated to English in the golden age of SNES RPGs, then carry on.

リメイク作品のお手本のような一本だった。 『ライブアライブ』の素晴らしいところは、原作の雰囲気や空気感をしっかり残しながら、現代のゲームとして遊びやすくするべき部分はきちんと改善しているところだと思う。 リメイクでありがちな「原作を別物にしてしまう」こともなく、かといって昔のまま再現するだけでもない。 当時プレイした人が懐かしさを感じられ、初めて触れる人にも遊びやすい。 このバランス感覚こそ、リメイクに求められるものだと思う。 各時代ごとに異なる物語と雰囲気を持つオムニバス形式も魅力的で、短いながらも強烈な印象を残す作品だった。 このクオリティ、この方向性で過去の名作もぜひ蘇らせてほしい。 特に『クロノ・トリガー』や『天地創造』。 このテンションでリメイクしてくれるなら、もう一度あの世界を歩ける日を本気で期待したい。

整个游戏若以娱乐性而言也就一般。若以个别故事内容所反应出来的意思，那还可以。分篇太多，让人厌烦不已，总得来说不值得一玩

It's kinda like "Chrono Trigger lite." It's not great, it's just kinda ok. Just go play Chrono Trigger instead. F#!# this game.