Hey guys, I've been following all the news about the changes in 2.5 ReMIX and I have to say it looks like this time Square outdid themselves.
Not only did they go all the way and remaster everything in HD, but they also made some more great changes:
* They translated everything! Even the previously Japanese text in the Secret Movies
* They dubbed everything! They fully voiced the new scenes in English!
* They included capes to make the series consistent!
And finally, what I was most afraid of, they handled the KHII Final Mix Secret movies with care:
the original movies were in a 4:3 aspect ratio. As I love 16:9, I was hoping a full HD version existed of the Sunset Horizon adn Birth by Sleep movies, as most of the stretched or cropped versions on the web look way off.
Here's the final result: Square apparently remastered the movie scene by scene to achieve a perfect movie in tghe new Ratio.
Apparently they opened up the ratio to fit it to 16:9 but they also used some zoom and strech to make the characters look more realistic.
Anyway, the result is perfect and worthy of an HD Final Mix:
STRECH:
While in the 4:3 ratio some characters, most of all Xehanort, look kind of distorted, the new stretch is used to make the characters look more realistic. They could have stretched the 4:3 fully without too much distortion but they just wanted to make them proportional again.
(Xehanort; also in Mickey and Ven scenes)
ZOOM:
The new video is slightly zoomed in BUT only in some scenes. It seems the ration the video was created in is not fully 16:9 but they handled this with care.
(Mickey Scene and Ven Scene)
OPENED UP SIDES:
the sides of the video was opened up to show more info. the source material clearly is wider than 4:3 and this opens up a new perspective with landscapes and details we have not seen.
(clearly visible in the Xehanort scene)
As can be seen in the Xehanort scene, they must have gone through the movie scene by scene because the Xehanort scene uses stretch and opening but no zoom to ensure to have a most authentic presentation.
RESULT:
Square did handle these techniques with care to achieve a stunning result.
With the use of streching the video to make characters look right, zoom to fit the video to the screen and opening up the sides to accomodate the new ratio.
In sum, we lose a tiny bit of material in hight but only in some scenes and what we gain in width is much more than what is cropped off.
Seems they finally made something right by treating the source material respectfully.
What more proof is needed until people recognize HD 1.5 and 2.5 are Square's most perfect remasters and they truly unite KH on one console in the games' best and most complete versions.
Hey guys, I've been following all the news about the changes in 2.5 ReMIX and I have to say it looks like this time Square outdid themselves.
Not only did they go all the way and remaster everything in HD, but they also made some more great changes:
* They translated everything! Even the previously Japanese text in the Secret Movies
* They dubbed everything! They fully voiced the new scenes in English!
* They included capes to make the series consistent!
And finally, what I was most afraid of, they handled the KHII Final Mix Secret movies with care:
the original movies were in a 4:3 aspect ratio. As I love 16:9, I was hoping a full HD version existed of the Sunset Horizon adn Birth by Sleep movies, as most of the stretched or cropped versions on the web look way off.
Here's the final result: Square apparently remastered the movie scene by scene to achieve a perfect movie in tghe new Ratio.
Apparently they opened up the ratio to fit it to 16:9 but they also used some zoom and strech to make the characters look more realistic.
Anyway, the result is perfect and worthy of an HD Final Mix:
STRECH:
While in the 4:3 ratio some characters, most of all Xehanort, look kind of distorted, the new stretch is used to make the characters look more realistic. They could have stretched the 4:3 fully without too much distortion but they just wanted to make them proportional again.
(Xehanort; also in Mickey and Ven scenes)
ZOOM:
The new video is slightly zoomed in BUT only in some scenes. It seems the ration the video was created in is not fully 16:9 but they handled this with care.
(Mickey Scene and Ven Scene)
OPENED UP SIDES:
the sides of the video was opened up to show more info. the source material clearly is wider than 4:3 and this opens up a new perspective with landscapes and details we have not seen.
(clearly visible in the Xehanort scene)
As can be seen in the Xehanort scene, they must have gone through the movie scene by scene because the Xehanort scene uses stretch and opening but no zoom to ensure to have a most authentic presentation.
RESULT:
Square did handle these techniques with care to achieve a stunning result.
With the use of streching the video to make characters look right, zoom to fit the video to the screen and opening up the sides to accomodate the new ratio.
In sum, we lose a tiny bit of material in hight but only in some scenes and what we gain in width is much more than what is cropped off.
Seems they finally made something right by treating the source material respectfully.
What more proof is needed until people recognize HD 1.5 and 2.5 are Square's most perfect remasters and they truly unite KH on one console in the games' best and most complete versions.
Well done!