Picked up Tales of Symphonia Remastered on launch, as this was one of my favourite games on the Gamecube and I just had to play it portably, despite it being quite clearly a low-effort remaster.
After about 20 minutes of playing...this already seems to be the worst version of the game. They've somehow managed to introduce new problems that weren't even in the PS3/PC ports (never mind the original), including:
Loading screens between battles and the world map (really?! this didn't even happen on the Gamecube)
Certain UI elements don't scale particularly well --- especially the character portraits which are downright ugly now
Outlines around characters haven't scaled well, and feel too thin. On weapons the outlines are much thicker for some reason.
Transition effects into battle are absent --- instead the screen briefly goes white which is quite jarring.
Scene transitions in general feel off --- too fast even? --- messing up the pace of cutscenes.
Colour balancing looks off. Generally the colours look darker than you'd expect, except for Kratos' hair which is now more red than brownish-auburn.
Really disappointing as someone who adores this game and has played it on all previous platforms (bar PS2, which was JP-exclusive). I would've been happy with just the PS3 version again (30fps battles is a shame but, tbh, it doesn't matter to me with this kind of battle system), but it's a shame to see they've made things worse.
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
Zachariah 12:10 (500 yrs before Christ)
They will look on Me whom they pierced
The Aknes Switch Pro Controller is the first ever 3rd party pro controller to feature HD Rumble with a genuine linear motor.
It also features gyro, NFC, system wake and custom back buttons you can map any button to you want.
It literally does everything a Pro controller does. Zero compromises. But adds rear buttons which makes games like Metroid Prime Remastered 100% playable without ever removing your thumbs from the analog.
If, in the game settings you swap the R and X so that holding R selects different beam weapons with D-pad and X becomes missiles, then on the controller you map X to right rear grip button and map Y to left rear grip button, you can turn into Morph ball (X- rear grip) and shoot missiles (Y- right rear grip).
It's insanely good. FINALLY a Pro controller that actually offers MORE than the official controller without any concessions.
On top of all that, it has a Switch to toggle between HD rumble, normal rumble and off, as well as switches to set your shoulder trigger buttons to "hair triggers" so that it bottoms out after a very slight press (perfect for Switch which only has digital input, but also perfect for PC FPS games as well). And you can set them separately for left and right. It even has swappable buttons and analogs! So if you're using on PC, change buttons so they match an Xbox layout, then change hair pin switches so you have full analog triggers.
It even has a PC-exclusive mode that auto maps gyro to the right analog for any game.
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
Zachariah 12:10 (500 yrs before Christ)
They will look on Me whom they pierced
@JaxonH Switch version of Octopath Traveler 2 metascore is 84, this is the mestascore of the PS5 version of Octopath Traveler 2, just a intereting observation, i wonder why the PS5 version Metascore is higher then Switch version?.
@Magician Thanks for the clip. Watched an hour an can definitely see the MH inspiration in the map/level structure and the end of mission/quest music(which made me want to play MH Gen. oddly enough). I'd get a Switch version if it were possible. I must admit, I chuckled every time Snake whipped out the lovebox and grunted his way along.
@JaxonH Thanks. That settles it, SE4 is going on my wishlist under high priority. The option for realism interests me, but if it's too difficult it's good to know it can be changed.
'I used to be with 'it', then they changed what 'it' was. Now what I'm with isn't 'it', and what's 'it' is weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you too.' - Abe Simpson
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@Giancarlothomaz
That picture was the Switch version. Read it for yourself. The numbers may have fluctuated by a few points afterward but it doesn't change the fact that was the Switch version.
Fewer reviewers reviewed the PS version, which means there's greater uncertainty in the average. You can't expect every game to settle on the exact same number across all platforms. That's not how statistics works. If you ran a 2 sample t-test to check for a statistically significant difference in means, then you might have an argument, but as it stands, I guarantee such a test would fail to reject the null hypothesis (being true scores are equal, since each average is just an estimate of the true score based on a limited semi-random sample).
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
Zachariah 12:10 (500 yrs before Christ)
They will look on Me whom they pierced
@Kermit1
Are you asking if it uses Hall Sensor analogs? No, I don't think so.
But "drift" isn't really a major concern for controllers unless it's a joycon which uses a tinier housing and parts and which thus wears out quicker, or controllers with Alps analogs from China which have been known to have issues (you want the ones from Japan, just like mechanical key switches for keyboards- Japan has far superior quality control processes).
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
Zachariah 12:10 (500 yrs before Christ)
They will look on Me whom they pierced
could princess Zelda has died in Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom?(i hope is not) and check out how the undeground exploration could be in Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom
@GrailUK someone lucky that got Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom before us and decided to ruin our fun/hype for the game, this person better be ready for the Nintendo ninjas.
Yeah Twitter is well known for being a cesspool of just garbage in general, I only go on there on occasion to see how much more of a dumpster fire it’s becoming day by day under its new management. The Nintendo community on there are lowlives, most of them anyway. They flood hashtags and Nintendo account reply sections with useless garbage like “Tears Of The Kingdom is mid, we want Pikmin 4” and “It is morally correct to emulate Nintendo games.” Um, no it isn’t.
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