Oh jesus h christmas. As someone with an enormous attachment to the game, I imported the damn thing from Asia before it had a hope of coming here. and then bought the english language version after that. Even I think that’s an improvement.
That old font has been used in so many Japanese games I’ve come to think of it as their default English language font. I suspect it’s something to do with some kind of similarity to Kanji strokes and so they go with that just because. But it’s dated imo, I’ve always disliked it and in general that kind of serif font is not easily readable onscreen.
This is why I can’t get onboard with the whole gamer culture change is bad thing. It’s just so… kneejerk.