Spiritual Successors Are Keeping Iconic Game Series Alive, and They're Not Slowing Down
The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, Shadow of the Colossus, Demon’s Souls, and Final Fantasy VII have been remade in the past few years, in very different but equally successful translations. And through it all, we hold out hope that beloved classics like Metal Gear Solid, Chrono Trigger might find a way to see a resurgence on new consoles. But sometimes, the road to bringing back a beloved game is a bit more twisty. Maybe the rights to a series are in limbo. Perhaps the original publisher has no interest in revisiting a certain property. Or, in many cases, much of the original cr...
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