If this year's TY the Tasmanian Tiger HD remaster wasn't enough for you, you'll be pleased to hear that a new console release of TY The Tasmanian Tiger 2: Bush Rescue – originally released on GameCube – is also in the works.
Krome Studios, the team responsible for bringing the original game to Switch and other platforms earlier this year, has announced the news in a message to Kickstarter backers today. The note makes reference to the remaster already available on Steam, and says that the team has "already started looking into the coding work to bring TY2HD to consoles".
We've heard you. We've been listening and answering your questions about bringing TY the Tasmanian Tiger 2: Bush Rescue to consoles, too...
We've already started looking into the coding work to bring TY2HD to consoles. Yesterday, Steve broadcast his time reviewing TY2, looking for more art to improve.
TY2HD was made with version 2 of our Merkury engine. We learned much bringing TY1HD across, but we have to start back at square one and figure out what we can update and improve.
Krome says that we shouldn't expect to see or hear anything of this new remaster in 2020, but promises to update fans in the new year. The studio has also previously revealed that TY the Tasmanian Tiger 5 could happen, but would need a "much bigger budget".
Incidentally, for any owners of the first game on Switch, the post also details a new patch:
TY the Tasmanian Tiger HD patch:
- Options for disabling motion control support added to the pause screen
- Added Hardcore mode warning UI when starting a hardcore game, to make it more clear to the player what it means.
- Added new control/camera inversion for swimming and Doomerang controls
- Implemented 1st Person Infrarang effect on the Switch
- Miscellaneous small bug fixes and performance improvements.
Would you like more TY the Tasmanian Tiger on your Switch? Looking forward to the thought of a second remaster? Let us know in the usual place.
Thanks to Perryg92 for the tip!
[source kickstarter.com]
Comments 23
Oh nice, I liked this one more than the first one.
Thanks for writing an article on my tip!
The PC remaster seems to have received a lot of quality of life updates compared to the original on GC/PS2 versions as well as nice graphical changes to places like the little shops etc so will definitely buy if it comes to Switch. (A physical edition would be lovely, but will accept digital again if not).
It would be nice if they release the first and second on cartridge
I played the first one back in the day
I have played the second one
@Mirage-5x5 I hope so as well.
I cannot buy it if it is not a physical release.
Oh that's cool. Is the first one good?
Oh, cool. I'll wait and see if it gets a physical.
Liked the first one as had never played it before, will look out for the second.
But if there was a physical collection of both remakes I would definitely jump on that
@Peteykins The funny part is that they're voiced by actual Australians. The whole game was made there.
@HotGoomba___Rebrand The first one is good, though nothing too special. It feels very similar to the original Jak & Daxter. Ty 2 is the best one IMO, expanding on the original in many ways. Ty 3... has the potential to be better? But the original GameCube version was forced out several months ahead of schedule by EA, and felt more like a late beta build than a truly finished game. That said, all the content for a better game was there, so an HD port with bug fixes could make that one the best.
I've never heard of it.
What was with the late 90s-early 00s with 3D platformers starring cartoony animal mascots?
Banjo-Kazooie, Spyro the Dragon, Crash Bandicoot, Ratchet and Clank, Klonoa, Ty the Tasmanian Tiger? Not to mention Donkey Kong and Sonic the Hedgehog, who were reworked into the same genre come the 64/Dreamcast/Gamecube era…
FUUUUUUU Nintendo Life lol. I honestly at first glance thought that was a picture of Rayman and that we were getting a Rayman 2 Great Escape remake. DAMNIT!
Way more interested in getting this one tbh. Also I'm hoping this means there going to do 3 Soon aswell as we Never got it in the UK.. other than the GBA Port.. that was realy not that good
I actually would really like to play this one as long as the game itself is good. I haven't checked reviews on the original release. The only Ty The Tasmanian Tiger game I have played is the first one, and I did enjoy it quite a bit back in the day, so having another way to play more of this series sounds good to me.
@marandahir Blame Super Mario 64. That game was revolutionary. After playing it, I'm sure tons of developers wanted to make their own take on it.
I'm a bit less certain why so many of them starred animal mascots though, and I lived through that era. Outside of Mario, Tak, Billy Hatcher... most of the others are animals.
I knew stalling on the first was a good idea. I'll wait for the whole trilogy methinks.
I enjoyed the first game back in the old days. Glad to see this series getting talked about again, as I'm always up for more 3D platforming collectathons.
He totally looks like Brain from Inspector Gadget.
Sold. Loved the original back in the day and never knew there was a second until last year so I’m getting day one
This was a decent 3D platformer but not one I would spend full price on, if anything this should had being bundle with the first one.
er..i am afraid it'll have those horrid graphics as the first one that they ported on the switch :s...hopefully they work on it, and don't rush it just to cash in gullible people.
I’m up for it! Bring it on
100% completed Ty 1 on the Switch, having played it tons on PS2 as a kid. I had a blast! But, I never did play (or even know about) Ty 2 back in the day. So I would absolutely back a second kickstarter campaign to support such a project.
I find it very amusing just how well the Ty kickstarter went, considering its from a much smaller dev (Krome) compared to the Wonderful 101 kickstarter, which has been a total dumpsterfire in comparison!!!
I know these games aren't exactly classics but it's always great to see more 3d Platformers being remastered, I hope this comes to switch as I have not played the 2nd or 3rd games in the series.
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