Every Final Fantasy hero and villain pulled together for one more war, tucked inside a PSP.

The criterion profile draws a real contradiction. The urge to rediscover it for the first time puts the game ahead of 92% of titles, the clear peak of the chart. Connection follows, ahead of two thirds of games. But fun drops to the bottom, ahead of less than a fifth of others, and the soundtrack sinks even further, barely past a tenth. That's the gap: people dream of returning to it and grow attached, yet the controller doesn't spark the same way. Several lines rest on one to three votes, so treat them as early signs.

As a fighting game drawn from a major RPG saga, Dissidia 012 lives mostly off the nostalgia it summons. Its twitchy one-on-one arena appeals less, on these first returns, than the cast it puts on stage.

So who's it for? For you if you carry the Final Fantasy characters in your heart and seeing them clash again is enough to relight the flame. Much less so if you judge a fighter by its raw feel, controller in hand.