Live a Live (HD-2D)

Actually, to go along with Treasure of the Rudras and Bahamut Lagoon, throw in Treasure Hunter G in there to make a full HD-2D trilogy pack. They all came out around the same time at the end of the SNES's life cycle.

Unrelated to the remake itself and more to the topic of the game in general. I could see a sequel be a What If? scenario where Straybow is unsuccessful in ruining Oersted’s life and ends up becoming the Demon King instead.

If they do it, then as alternative ending for obvious reasons or in a New game +.

Anyone recognize any of the voice actors in the character trailer?

None in english, but the villain of the ninja chapter's japanese Va is Norio Wakamoto.

Prehistory Trailer

Imperial China trailer.

Edited by Demongodofchaos2 on Apr 13th 2022 at 10:44:06 AM

More news inhales

I do like that they haven't given away the big gut punch. There is some hinting at it, but I doubt that someone going in blind would be able to guess that those two rocks meant anything.

Edited by Altris on Apr 13th 2022 at 7:57:53 AM

I love that Octopath Traveller-esque art style they're adopting for this remake :D

...Well, *now* I know those two random rocks are plot relevant.

EDIT: Thanks for updating with spoiler tags.

Edited by RacattackForce on Apr 13th 2022 at 11:03:59 AM

Fooey. Forget I said anything :p

In other news, we finally get official names! I feel like Li reads better than "Lei", but I'm not a localizer, and the other names seem okay.

Nah, it's cool. I've also been there: being a fan who's been aware of a work's big twist for so long that you no longer remember if the foreshadowing for said reveal was obvious or not, so you accidentally start bringing attention to specific hints yourself.

Ah.

So what do you think of the game so far? Personally I'm loving the art style.

I'm not sure how far the voice acting goes - presumably it'll be like Fire Emblem: Awakening, with the really important lines getting fully voice-acted and the rest being grunts. The pipe dream is that it'll be like FE Echoes where the game is fully voice-acted.

It's also interesting that Lei seems to be the "canon" successor, at least from the trailer where she's shown in the overworld section with Odi Wang Lee and not the other two.

(Note: this does not mean anything story-wise, since all three potential successors are shown fighting Lee. The player can seemingly choose who the successor is, like in the original game; it just means that the trailer people chose to showcase a scenario where Lei is chosen as the successor, and I find that interesting.)

I'm digging what I've seen so far: both from these trailers and this one fan's "Why You Should Play LIVE A LIVE" video. I've heard about the game a few times over the years, with one of those times ironically being someone comparing the concept of Octopath Traveler to it, but never got around to playing the fan translation. So I'm pretty excited to try it out now that it's getting an official remake. Probably most curious about the little robot's story arc.

Neat to see that you're excited! That video is unironically a good endorsement of the game.

Also, yes, Cube is a pretty interesting character despite only making robot beeps. Also, look at those little roller skates. So cute.

For the spoilerized, I wonder if we'll get a Medieval chapter trailer, given how the trailers so far have presented the chapter as a regular chapter, and what that would look like. Presumably Straybow giving his big speech would be at the end, given that he was already in an earlier trailer, but I'm curious as to what the rest would be.

Square Enix just hosted a livestream today for HD-2D Live A Live. It was all in Japanese so I didn't understand a lot of it but they had Yoko Shimomura there as one of the panelists, some gameplay footage of Present Day and Twilight of Edo Japan, and most importantly had a sneak preview of the new version of "Go! Go! Buriki Daioh!" And of course to fit the theme, it's being sung by Hironobu Kageyama.

Edited by Nap1100 on May 20th 2022 at 8:41:37 AM

Are there any noticeable gameplay changes?

The gameplay itself seems mostly unchanged, but what did change is the UI. There are health bars for both your character and for enemies, as well as a gauge underneath that seems to be indicating when you and enemies can act and how long it takes to let certain moves charge for.

Some more trailers.

The Wild West

Twilight of Edo Japan

The Near Future

Still missing The Distant Future.

I mentioned it in the General Nintendo thread, but I really don't remember the frog youkai being that big in the original game.

It still looks really cool though, and I think the bigger size makes it look even cooler.

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Nintendo didn't upload it, but Square Enix uploaded the Medieval Chapter trailer.

I like how the transition to the logo focused on the E of the "evil" part.

Edit: Each trailer seems to use a different letter of the logo. Nice touch. Makes the lack of a trailer for the Present and Far Future more awkward, though.

Edited by Karxrida on May 24th 2022 at 8:11:55 AM

So weird to me that Alicia is now Alethea and Straybow is now Streibough and ...Uranus is still Uranus. shrug

Also, Streibough's character title as "A formidable mage and former friend". Hahahahaha. Wonder if the "know this, my friend, I will hold nothing back" is from the duel at the beginning or at the end. I'm guessing beginning because no voice filter, but I'd be pleasantly surprised if it was the end duel. Which, besides, the line itself is a bit of Rewatch Bonus with how curt it sounds at the end, which is interesting.

Edited by Altris on May 24th 2022 at 9:54:49 AM

Going to be honest, I always thought that "Straybow" sounded like an archer's name.

It does. Probably why they changed the spelling.