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The site appears to be a Sega Saturn fansite, so obviously they have a slight bent towards playing it on the Saturn . But for anyone else who's interested in trying the game, the PS1 version was fine, and is more readily available on modern consoles.
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The soundtrack to Grandia lives rent free in my head. I've not heard it in 20 years but I can still play it back.
Happily found out on Monday that it is available on Spotify!!111 Sent it to said sister. Strange how something can exit your life then re-enter it heavily in the same week (soundtrack, and now HN).
I just went and found the whole soundtrack online. I found this cool live orchestra version too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4fUdY1PGhY
Worth pointing out that a Grandia 1 & 2 HD bundle came out earlier this year: https://www.grandiahd.com/
Are they garbage? All the videos I've seen say the remasters are dogshit and ruin the game :(
The site appears to be a Sega Saturn fansite, so obviously they have a slight bent towards playing it on the Saturn . But for anyone else who's interested in trying the game, the PS1 version was fine, and is more readily available on modern consoles.
They really didn't cover at all why this game is better specifically on Saturn than PS1 or any modern remake / emulator.
This is a pretty bad demonstration since they took literally zero effort in syncing the two side-by-side til the end, but gives you an idea:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL6Z9xvt7h0
That being said, it's not so much worse that PS1 is unplayable. It's just that if you had the choice between the two, the Saturn version is slightly more pleasant to look at and listen to.
Worth pointing out that a Grandia 1 & 2 HD bundle came out earlier this year: https://www.grandiahd.com/
Are they garbage? All the videos I've seen say the remasters are dogshit and ruin the game :(
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Happily found out on Monday that it is available on Spotify!!111 Sent it to said sister. Strange how something can exit your life then re-enter it heavily in the same week (soundtrack, and now HN).
Thank you! I think I had this on CD decades ago that I found in a comic book store. I just went and found the whole soundtrack online. I found this cool live orchestra version too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4fUdY1PGhY
I haven't played the first one but I played Grandia II on the Dreamcast and I think it's still my favorite battle system in a JRPG to date. Not only does it have the obvious details you can see on a YouTube playthrough, but higher-end play with it also requires managing positioning, which is easy to miss as an option at all in the menus, or to think it has no purpose. A low-level challenge run would probably be a lot…
Grandia II's battle system was really great but the story and voice acting was so rough haha, I ended up not caring about any of the characters and skipping all that I could to get to the combat