One Of 2025's Standout Switch Releases Could Get A Switch 2 Edition Upgrade

Oh my goodness, PLEASE. I held off on picking this one up over the holidays because people said how low the resolution was for the game on Switch 2. Fingers crossed! 🤞

Would be nice, though I know in the past Kodaka's been pretty upfront that whether Hundred Line will get other console versions mostly depends on the publisher and I imagine that would also apply to a Switch 2 upgrade.

Finally bought it last week. Haven't gotten far yet. It does look a bit fuzzy on Switch 2 screen so an upgrade would be welcome.

If they do then I hope it is not as big as the one for Shuten Order - that upgrade pretty much doubled the file size. Although I must be honest, I don't know how these things work and what accounts for the most gigabytes in an upgrade.

A technological upgrade for Switch 2 should be an absolute standard for larger games. So far, I’m very disappointed that most games have remained in their Switch 1 versions.

that would be lovely

If they do, I'll get it. I am kind of holding off on getting S1 games, because I upgraded to Switch 2.

@Warioware If it were to meaningfully update the visuals it likely would need to be, since the sprites are at a pretty low resolution. They'd probably need to patch in new versions of all of them.

Unless they uncensor the dialogue changes made by the hacktivists it’s still unplayable. This is why AI will replace localizers.

@FrenchVaniIIuxe What are you talking about? I've played the game, and the dialogue was full of swearing and inneundos.

If they do, I might finally grab the game.

@schmauz "A technological upgrade for Switch 2 should be an absolute standard for larger games"

Right, to make them even larger, and on a console limited to MSDExpress memory expansions at that. I'm scratching my head about where to cram THL's current 13 Gb as it is, thank you very much - and I still remember the No Man's Sky upgrade (which I humoured for its actual extra content) quintupling the port's original size. Yikes.

@JohnnyMind It already has a physical release outside of Japan? It never made it to Europe (grumbles grumbles) but you can always import it from America.

I ended up importing an american copy. This is technically the only game i paid 70 bucks for. It was so worth it. Its my GOTY.

I'd love a physical switch 2 edition. Currently I only own it digitally and its so good that I wish I had something to display on my shelf.

I've said it on comments before but this was by far my favourite game of 2025.

What's with the happy smile while she's badly bleeding from one eye - she should go see a doctor 😨

This game is at the top of my “need to play” list but I’m so torn between having it portable on Switch or prettier on PC. A Switch 2 upgrade would make that decision so easy!

@Lizuka thanks for the reply, that does get sound like a lot of work. I think it sold well though, against their goals anyway. I guess when we get the Danganronpa 2 remake we'll see how big one if their "ground up" games is on the system.

I want an uncensored patch.

I dropped the switch version and finished my playthroigh on PC after I found out the former got some CGs censored. (Really low move to not even announce it anywhere).

@ShadowRJ
The localizers changed a bunch of stuff.

@FrenchVaniIIuxe @ottoecamn What are some examples of things that were censored? Both of you brought it up, so it must impact the experience meaningfully across the potential 100-200 hour playtime.

@anubisvel its subjective whether you wanna consider it substantial or not. For me, I'm against censoring art in principle, and I LIKE this game. But I wouldn't have bought the switch version if they had been transparent about it from the beginning. Not disclosing that changes were made to the switch version prior to release is incredibly disrespectful, SPECIALLY when its an M-Rated game filled with death, swearing, and sexual jokes and innuendo.

This was definitely my game of the year. I really enjoyed the many routes and different endings. A couple of did kinda suck though. As for the censorship, I know of at least one, it’s the artwork of Eva and cake. I think it’s just odd to censor it giving on how it’s already M-rated.

@anubisvel

Characters turned into over the top weebs, characters tuned into Reddit humor losers, and for some reason they thought constantly talking about “cracking eggs” was in good taste.

@anubisvel To the best of my knowledge, the only “censorship” in the game is that two explicit images were made SLIGHTLY less explicit in the Switch version, and I do mean SLIGHTLY. Both images still made me go “WHAT!!!” when I first saw them on Switch.

@ShadowRJ the images weren't explicit. They were suggestive. Nothing was showing, and they had been approved by the ESRB.

And the cake one in particular, it was very clear that it had been censored. Since half the same screen was covered by a white cloud.

Still, the point is that regardless of whether its big or small, mature works that had been properly age-rated and shouldn't be censored.

Honestly, a physical copy of this, I feel, will be worth it's weight in gold in the future.

finally got and started the game a few days ago (its on sale rn! sorry uchikoshi for waiting so long), my timing on this is hilarious since i also started shuten order like a day before the switch 2 edition was announced. next has to be a replay of remember 11 right before they announce a (terrible ai-upscaled and poorly-translated) switch port

@FrenchVaniIIuxe lmao uchikoshi has always been extremely supportive of queer fans of his games, youve had loads of time to write off his games if a very subtle, slightly pro-trans joke offends you this much. and the characters are losers, the translation is very accurate from what i've played so far. you clearly want some machine translated slop that bungles any attempts at humour because you wrongly think literal translation is more accurate. the tone of hundred line is very similar to that of the zero escape official translations, as well as of danganronpas

@sunspotty Yeah, I have no clue how anyone could possibly think Uchikoshi supports their bigoted nonsense. AI: The Somnium Files has a part where Mizuki stops to lay out how the fact she's uncomfortable around Mama has nothing whatsoever to do with her being trans, and then Nirvana Initiative has a scene in the same location that's very clearly Mizuki ranting at the people who complained about that scene in the first game and reinforcing her support. It isn't subtle.

@sunspotty

1:1 translation will always be better.

@ShadowRJ Yeah, it's mild adjustments on two images (kinda three because one of them has a variant) deep into one specific route, and it's still entirely clear what you're looking at and not really at all important to the overall narrative anyway. It's completely irrelevant.

@FrenchVaniIIuxe you clearly know nothing about translation lmfao. go learn japanese, nothings stopping you

@sunspotty

The game almost killed the studio because of the censorship.

@FrenchVaniIIuxe The game almost killed the studio because they got jerked around by their first publisher leading them to have to restart development and the scope of it spiraled out of their control because it's an incredibly dense, ambitious game and they mistakenly thought a tactical RPG would be very cheap to make. And even then, "almost" is doing a lot of work there because it didn't and they're fine now.

You tilting at windmills because you don't know what localization is has nothing to do with it.

I think he is just being polite, previously on the official Twitter/X someone asked about a potential switch 2 edition and they say the game already performs well enough on the new platform implying they are not really considering the investment in an upgrade (which was not the case of Shuten Order apparently). I have played my first 100 hours of the game evenly divided between the Oled and the Switch 2 and I can say the loading times do improve, particularly when loading a save midgame. As for the resolution and performance, sure it is lacking, but since the game is basically a visual novel for a good 90% of the playtime, no biggie.

Not sure this kind of communication is the way to go. Now, I'm tempted to wait for both: a bigger sale and a SW2 upgrade.

Please, God! I bought it long ago on Switch just because I prefer playing on it there. Played the demo but then put off playing the game in hopes it would get an update. Was very tempted to double dip for it on Steam Deck but resisted. (I'm not super purposely avoiding playing it. I decided to play through all the Danganronpa games and Rain Code first. Almost done with those, so it's almost time ...)

Let’s hope so. The game looks interesting but, bluntly, I probably won’t consider it without a Switch 2 upgrade. Might pick up Shuten Order in the meantime to show support though.

@ShadowRJ @Lizuka

Its a good rule of thumb to assume that, when someone starts ranting about the evils of localization and sinister plots by translators best replaced with AI? They are dogwhistling so loud that any actual dogs nearby are getting hearing damage. Don't make the mistake of thinking they are speaking from ignorance about the realities of how translation works; they know exactly what they are trying not to say out loud.

As long as it isn't a GKC.