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@Nintendo4Sonic well, they usually don’t report on technical details and are not too fussed about mentioning even basic info like framerates or resolution (sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t), I know that and I accept it since there’s room for everyone, but a review like this? First, you can touch on graphics and performance even without getting into numbers, but this hardly says anything about gameplay, how is this a proper review? There have been “mini” reviews on this site that were waaaaaay more in-depht and informative. This lacks the most basic info that would help in any way a reader making a decision or even getting an idea about the gameplay.

A VIDEO game review that never mentions the video part, great. Never once touches upon graphics. A racing game where all you get about performance is half a sentence on the Conclusion box. Never mentions the sense of speed, the stunts, crashing and clashing, the handling… nothing. It seems this “review” needs a day1 patch more than the game itself. Don’t want to be harsh but I’m frankly puzzled this was published the way it is.

Also I can see why the incredible Esp. Rade Psi is still Asia exclusive (have it digital AND retail, LOVE IT) since €60 shmups are a hard (impossible even) sell in the west, especially 2D/pixel art ones. I’m glad the Switch platform embraced the genre, even back in the X360 days all of Cave’s western releases bombed so hard that Rising Star noped out of further licensing…

I wish Under Defeat HD, Delta/XII Zeal and especially Raiden Fighter Aces collection got ported to NSW and others tho. And Border Down is still stuck on DC.

I wish Galuda 1 got a new port since it’s stuck on PS2. Have Espgaluda 2 on X360 (which I recently hooked up to a crt Sony Wega 33” via RGB scart to play my shmup collection and looks glorious) and also the iOS release still working on an iOS 9 iPad Mini, but I can’t wait to triple dip for Switch. Hopefully it’ll have working online leaderboards tho.

A (mini)review of an “arcade-sim” (middle ground between the top down view and the physics/handling model) where handling and throttle are crucial to the experience that doesn’t even mention how playable it is (or not) with digital inputs while wasting most of its word count talking about other platforms. Something like Grid was ok with digital triggers and ain’t too bad played with analog gas on Right Stick, but Absolute Drift (same dev) was an absolute d… isgrace on that department.
The review, for a racing game, doesn’t even mention the racing itself, what kind of races, if besides the free roam the tracks are good and so on and on.

Also, the game has A LOT going on under the hood and it chugs on even powerful PCs but of course it’s as much an engine limitation as it is an awful Switch port because with all the downgrades it should’ve run much better.

Too bad because I was really looking forward to play it on Switch. Yes, I have GP, don’t care because 90% of my gaming is done on NSW portable mode. I use GP as a demoing platfom of sorts.

Key art and cover are so bland, uninspired, boring, and just devoid of any style and excitement… it’s a shame because in-game it looks lovely and unless the game blows up on Twitch/Discord etc (doubt so) that is gonna fail attracting folks who don’t know about the game…

At least say in the headline this is PC-only ?

Not cool @Ryan

@Scoopz ok

@Scoopz you should really work on your reading comprehension and anger issues. ciao

@Scoopz it seems to me that the only one with an attitude it’s you, “bro”.
It’s been common knowledge for 15 years, I shared a notion with you and after that it’s up to you to do the work, I’m not going to do that for you especially with that first reply attitude. I don’t care about changing your opinion, that’s up to you, but I will always fight fake numbers in any sales discussion.
I’m not sure you know what hersay is, because if it’s true then it’s not hersay which is why VGChartz has never done anything about it.

https://www.wired.com/2008/06/why-we-dont-ref/

https://forum.beyond3d.com/threads/the-problem-with-vgchartz-numbers-spin-off.41339/

http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2008/06/analysis_what_vgchartz_does_and.php

@Scoopz

Just do your due diligence and look it up yourself, it’s not exactly a secret. By whom? By the real numbers provided by NPD, Famitsu, Media Create’s White Book, GFK, ASVI… They constantly went and deleted all mention/web pages/etc of the made up numbers and changed them into the real ones without any explanation each and every time the real sources provided numbers in the open… Anyway, I wanted to give you the notion and tools to verify it yourself, don’t have to convince anybody, if you enjoy reading a bunch of made up fluff by iOi you’re free to do that lol

@Scoopz VGFarts champions made up numbers through their “network of experts and their proprietary predictive algorithm” (lol), they’re absolutely worthless and actually a detriment to sales discussion with them continuously poisoning the discourse with fake info. This has been demonstrated countless times, just do some research if you want to know the nitty gritty.

@OorWullie it does have multiple options, TATE and X-Y screen settings, multiple windows zoom-in/out options to customize for score/combo/etc.

It lacks a scanlines filter, like the PC and X360 releases, too bad cause even with the upped rez from the og 240p this art was still drawn with scanlines in mind and it shows.

There are online leaderboards but don’t seem to be active yet and the option is greyed out so maybe they’ll go online in an upcoming patch.

Game is a blast, an absolute gem and a fantastic price, it also includes everything that was DLC on X360

It’d be hilarious(ly bad) if this ends up lacking 60fps locked.

At the very least have a performance mode and not have look like p**s

@60frames-please I mean, performance is mediocre on Xbox One too, so I’m not surprised it ain’t locked 60 on NSW considering the disparity in computation between the two platforms

@PoundShopOrwell so the guys from Iam8bit replied to my email and said that the physical release is going to be on version 1.04.

Is that the same version you have? Fingers crossed it’s 1.03 so that means a new patch is imminent.... otherwise it’s dead Jim :/

@everynowandben at least an 8? So you’d give it a 9 even. To me, and the reviewer it’s a 6 (I’d even say a 6 is generous, but ymmv).
See how that works? Opinions, man.

Anyway, I’ve been playing it on GP (where the performance is so-so on og Xbone so good on the devs for optimizing it a bit better on Switch -at least from what I’ve read around-). I’m all for quirky games with simple yet inventive and satisfying gameplay (Katamari Damacy is a good example) but coming from the lovely trailer, in reality the game is a bit shallow. And even audiovisually, it’s inconsistent and lacks variety in both visuals and audio. With the staggering amount of good games on Switch, and the fact that I was intrigued by the concept and trailer but came away disappointed, I can’t recommend this. But if it sounds cool to y’all and you’ve looked at a few walkthroughs on YT, go for it!

I’m glad we can have this kind of games and that there’s an audience for them (and I identify myself with being part of that audience, I just found it boring), hope to seem more of them coming.

@PoundShopOrwell Ugh. Thanks for the reply mate and for writing that post back in December saving me money and frustration.
Too bad because the aesthetics are like made for me. Between this and Battle Axe it’s not going well for the audiovisual feasts currently on my wishlist.

@PoundShopOrwell sorry to page ya 😂 was this ever fixed? Has the game received any patches at all? I’m really interested and the game is on sale currently but I won’t buy if it’s still in such a dire state.

Iam8bit just released the physical edition, I don’t want to believe they’d release the game as it was at launch? I asked them but got no response. This should’ve never gotten an 8/10 imo.

Too bad. Although it seems this is the kind of project that just needed more time in the owen/funding/playtesting.
If sales are decent, hopefully together with the remaining KS funds, and they (well mainly H.N.) are smart about it, this could propel from mediocre to great with a hefty free update (adding content, reworking the enemy logic and rebalancing the weapons seem to be the 3 big ones by reading the review) and some performance fixes and become a cult “newretro” darling for years to come. Fingers crossed.

...now what should I spend that money on?🤔

@Brummieendo90 good thing I haven’t said that anywhere ever then lol

But about the NEVER happening point you’re so sure about... let’s say I’m not as confident, will see if PS7/whatever console will even have physical storage readers.
We’re already at a point were 60% of most company’s software is bought digitally. I can see that going up to 90% or more in the next 15 years most definitely, don’t need a crystal ball to think that.

@Giancarlothomaz
Who knows, if I’d have to speculate I’d say the Switch version could sell anything from 8 to 12m and another 4 to 6m on PC, maybe more but it’ll depend on how much Capcom
is going to support the game post launch, PC launch price and regional pricing.

I wouldn’t take a bet on “my” numbers haha, because at this point we can honestly just guess... I could be right but also way off in the end.
What’s sure is that if the stars align the sky’s the limit as other titles have recently shown in the era of Covid, it might explode in popularity. But beating World 17M+ is no joke, I mean it’s Capcom’s best selling game EVER by a lot.

Anyway, game is basically sold out everywhere at retail, which will boost digital but might also cripple some sales, hopefully Capcom has more shipments ready FAST.

@carlos82 oh yeah, absolutely. It’s going to be huge. I mean, there’s no question that in Japan, Rise might even blow World’s numbers out of the water. Question is by how much?

@Giancarlothomaz 10M minimum? It might, but consider that MHW is Capcom’s best selling game of all time (and by quite a margin) and that “only” sold 9M on PS4.

Also, it’s EXTREMELY unlikely it will only sell 2/3M on PC when World sold more than 6M on Steam and the game will keep selling for years and years on PC because that’s how that market works.

Btw, these are the ratio for World’s sales figures up to September 2020 (bolding Non-JPN totals since PC is a non entity in Japan and Xbox version didn’t even release there)
.
PC USA: 1.616 m
PC EU: 1.570 m
PC Asia: 2.531 m
PC NonJP Total: 5.717M
+
PC Japan: 236k

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Sony USA: 2.392 m
Sony EU: 1.702 m
Sony Asia: 1.414 m
Sony NonJP Total: 5.509M
+
Sony Japan: 3.184m
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Xbox WW: 1.789M

@Exciter89 I’ll let it slide because you have a DM avvy (even tho it’s their second worst album) and I’m one of the biggest fan on Earth lol (seen them first in ‘89 and last in 2017 with 20 other times inbetween haha) BUT:

Apples and Oranges basically.
A Lynel fight goes for 3/4 minutes at best, a Monster fight can go on for 20+ minutes and it’s like if you were taking on Godzilla, you need to outsmart him and tire him and hit him and follow him if he tries to run away, get him out again, hit him more and more... etcetera. The whole point is that fight, that hunt is the quest itself. On Zelda, my GOAT btw, the big enemy is just a part of the quest.

On the other hand, Skyrim’s combat is just baaaaaaad.

Obviously. There was nothing to confirm tho, because this has been Capcom’s mo for a while already, it’s not a secret.

@Shellcore I agree that is not the best wording but it is how it is. Capcom’s hardly alone in that.

If you’re questioning the info I provided instead, dunno what to tell you if not that Google is your friend and you can verify it yourself.

This are “Boost me up” marketing PRs, if Capcom had shipped+sold NINE MILLION COPIES (physical+digital) believe me that they’d shout it from the top of Mount Fuji 😂

@Lord we don’t know yet for Rise, and unless Capcom will state it (unlikely) we won’t know till the fiscal year results. Generally physical has been matched or surpassed by digital for many publishers like Ubisoft and EA (respectively 65/35 and 55/45 in favour of digital iirc) but also Sony (55/45), Nintendo doesn’t share digital numbers but we know for some titles (like ACNH) the split was in digital favour but generally it seems their games’ split is estimated at about 65/35 in physical’s favour.

@TreonsRealm @Lord
As I said above, numbers include digital already (for both Rise and World).

NL should edit the article and specify it to avoid confusion honestly

@Carlos82

The Twitter you saw was Stealth making an axx out of himself, he was just going by ComG (a small retail stores chain) preorders points. It could very well have sold anything from 1.5 to 2.4 M or more but we don’t know yet, it’s just guessing and made up numbers. Famitsu’s weekly ain’t out yet, we’ll have resl numbers soonish

@shazbot

It does include digital. As always with Capcom. Yes, World’s also included digital (and back then they still specified it in the pr, they don’t anymore and frankly it wouldn’t make sense in a post-pandemic world).
For comparison, FF7 Remake shipped 3.5M in its first 3 days, so that gives an idea of how good this sales are).

Rise shipped basically the same as PS4 MHWorld.

I just want to say that this hasn’t aged well BUT it the prequel to probably the GREATEST BEAT ‘EM UP of all time (should be in any fan’s of the genre top5) which is
CRIME FIGHTERS 2 aka best known as:
VENDETTA.

Flag gates are open, only a question of time ‘till that one is released. Also, PSA reminder that y’all should get ACA SUNSET RIDERS while you’re at it... Konami were gods in the ‘90s

You guys forgot ACA CITY CONNECTION which is not only the best emu wrapper Hamster has released so far (fixed Caravan mode!) but a great arcade classic.
We're going to play it on the next NINTENDOLIFE ARCADE CHALLENGE

If you haven’t played INSIDE and love cinematic puzzle-platformer like LIMBO (also good) or ANOTHER WORLD and FLASHBACK back in the day, you totally should. IMO it’s the pinnacle of the genre.

Hey you know what, I told myself, second game is out so maybe it's time to get the first game! Let's head over to Nintendolife

...NOTHING. Totally worthless. You'd think the reviewer didn't even play the Switch version since it doesn't mention A WORD on the port... framerate? Loading times? Portable mode concessions? Nope. Well, surely it'll mention the resolution?!

NOPE.
NOTHING.
Why even bother? Hell of a worthless review, game's been out for years already, even freaking Appstore reviews are more helpful than some NL stuff. Meh, very disappointed.

@Shiryu thanks for the reply mate! It’d be great to have all this info laid out for every retro review, website-wide! Even a little section/paragraph if it’s considered too technical for the general NL audience (although I’d say the audience for these releases is mostly made of adult retrogamers. Again, thanks!

I always skip Johnny Turbo’s Data East releases and it’s a pity because I’d love to buy them all but blurry and stretched image (going by eShop’s screens and Nintendolife’s screenshots) ain’t my thing and I’m not wasting money like that... I’m
willing to give a pass to no dip-switches but not AR/blurred images. Btw, can you at least play local co-op with just the joycons?
Missing online leaderboards sucks too... bought many retro games I was merely interested in and just because of the inclusion of online leaderboards! Ugh! 😑

I always skip Johnny Turbo’s Data East release and it’s a pity because I’d love to buy them all but blurry and stretched image (going by eShop’s screens and Nintendolife’s screenshots) ain’t my thing and I’m not wasting money like that... I’m
willing to give a pass to no dip-switches but not AR/blurred images. Missing only leaderboards sucks too... bought many retro games I was merely interested in and just because of the inclusion of online leaderboards! Ugh! 😑

@Shiryu the review only mentions that the emulation is not up to par with ACA releases, but I’d like to know if you can play with the correct aspect ratio and what filters are there? I only know there’s no “raw pixels”/no filters option... which is even worse than Hamster and Zerodiv refusing to include a scanlines option couple with no blur filter. Thanks to anyone who can help out with proper info

Is it true there’s no training available?
Seems absurd if true, you really need to be able to practice previously beaten levels.
This is the only thing holding me back, can you guys confirm or deny? Doesn’t mention anything about Practice Mode in the review.

Bit disappointed there's not a performance mode option when playing in portable mode.... 30fps with dips dies

Well, just sell them!
(the carts)

They've also fixed the price, it was $9.99 before

I don’t get it? What do you mean to see what we can see?
It was just my own 2 cents mate, of course you can leave it as it pleases you

@Shiryu

Good job on the review mate, just a word of advice:
the "conclusion" section isn't worded correctly, you'd better edit that. For the sentence to make sense you should switch (hehe) "portable aspect blabla" at the beginning for "all the content blablabla" at the end. It'd still be weirdly worded (better to rewrite it, imo) but at least it would make sense.

Singapore is doing RR (but it's not called 8 as far as I know). Japan is doing MP4 with some help from Singapore assets-wise.

@Terrible_Majesty
Visceral Games has been shut down months ago.

Anybody bought the PAL version could please tell me how it is?
Slow, fatty characters/black bordered or dare I dream at least 50Hz opimised? I'm not biting if it's the former but I've always wanted to play this game in 3-way multiplayer since I was a kid... care to answer?

I still don't get why VC-Reviews doesn't state how the PAL version is in their reviews, as it is it's almost worthless since the site doesn't stand on its own, I always have to make further researches to see if the game it's really worth my money.