Overview
- Square Enix’s updated PC edition of the 1997 RPG is live on Steam and GOG, replacing the 2013 listing for new buyers and arriving as a free upgrade for existing owners.
- The re-release adds specific quality-of-life features including a 3× speed toggle, an option to disable random encounters, a battle enhancement mode, and autosave with no story changes.
- Launch-day backlash on Steam pushed the new version to a Mostly Negative consensus, with players citing doubled combat speed, desynced audio and animations, blurry backgrounds, and launch failures.
- An emergency patch addressed the broken battle speed, but reports persist of a buggy mandatory launcher, crashes, limited resolution choices, and degraded FMV and background upscales.
- Save files from the 2013 PC edition do not work with the new build, and prominent mod team Tsunamods publicly offered to be hired to help remediate the release.