Luckily, you can actually get in to enjoy these sequences these days – the server issues that plagued A Realm Reborn's first two weeks now seem to be a thing of the past. Most of the time you have to read the story, but it’s well-written enough that it’s not just click-through material. A Realm Reborn makes smart use of cinematics along the way, although Square Enix only took the time to add voices to a handful of them. Around level 35 a shift occurs that jumpstarts the narrative into hyperdrive, and it never really loses momentum until it ends at level 50 (and rewards you with a sweet magitek mount).
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The main storyline is full of twists and struggles that give some meaning to the surrounding eye candy, even if at best it's little more than another tale of good struggling to overcome evil. (Upgrading will lock you out of the PS3 version.)
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Note that owners of A Realm Reborn on PlayStation 3 owners can upgrade to the PlayStaion 4 version for free via the Mog station.
And, as far as we’ve seen, there’ve been no hiccups at all hopping onto the servers day one.
With added features, such as the ability to easily use the surprisingly smooth Remote Play on a Vita, and the option to play using a keyboard and mouse by simply plugging them in, it’s obvious that Square Enix’s time was well spent on this version.
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The PlayStation 4 version of A Realm Reborn remains the same great experience that it is on the PS3, with enhanced graphics that come close to, but don’t quite match, those of its PC counterpart. (Odd, too, since you see good beards on NPCs.) I went with the latter. The detail even extends to the decent character generator, although as a proud owner of an epic beard, I was disappointed that my only beard options consisted of a scruffy, depressed-looking Hyur Highlander or the hulking Roegadyn. A Realm Reborn’s toned-down approach lets it run smoothly on both mid-range PCs and PlayStation 3 while retaining much of the beauty. It seems counter-intuitive to praise a game for reducing its graphical quality from a previous version, but in this case it was a good move. I also note that my character can sit down on most surfaces that looked as though they were made for sitting – a test I use to determine how much attention a world designer pays to detail. True to Final Fantasy tradition, Masayoshi Soken's entirely new musical score is a constant pleasure, and it jumps smoothly from soothing tracks to heavy metal riffs on bosses like Titan. It's even easy to get around in, thanks for aetheryte crystals that serve as teleportation locations at every major town, although the zones remain large enough that the immersion of walking or riding isn't lost amid crowded portals. It's filled with weather effects ranging from simple fog to torrential rainstorms and even humdrum overcast days. First there's the continent of Eorzea itself, a stunning world of forests, deserts, and coasts that often delivers wallpaper-worthy moments, such as a the sight of watching the sun rise over the waters of the resort of Costa Del Sol.
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