Ah the inglorious life of a platinum hunter... Berseria re-Plat in progress and nearing the end of the grind...

The remaster made a few subtle changes which were cool:

* Screen captures on PS5 are now allowed, the OG prevented them * As soon as you get fast travel, you get the infinite fast travel bottle, instead of having to wait for the last dungeon for it * I'm not positive but I feel like the treasure chest trophy was made easier, I got it before I even entered the final dungeon, and I don't remember that last time * Oddly, the malevolence walls in the purple-floor areas of the bonus dungeon no longer knock you off your geoboard, you just crash right through them, making them useless, which is weird, maybe a bug * And of course you get full grade from the beginning, so you can just turn everything on from the start, if you want, just like the Xillia and Graces remasters * I kinda wonder whether they changed the XP value of battles on moderate/hard/evil/chaos, because I found that moderate was the fastest bonus-dungeon-boss-1 cycle for leveling last time I platinumed, but this time I had to up it to chaos to get enough exp, and I don't think i'm playing incredibly differently such that my combo maxes are better or something * Dark Turtlez no longer steals all your arcane bottles and elixirs, he seems to only react to gels and only steals your gels

However the one thing they really needed to do was to increase the walking speed by 30% across the board, base level. Oh well. :-P

Also, Laphicet and Magilou REFUSE to use hidden artes, ever, under auto-control. So when you get to the platinum grind and need 2500 uses each, they are nearly zero. It's so weird that the AI just refuses to use hidden artes. Even if you turn everything else off, they will just sit there and do nothing instead of using hidden artes. Or rather, if you tell them to attack with break souls, they will sometimes do so and follow up with hidden artes, but very rarely. This also should have gotten fixed.