Thank you very much! I was sad to hear all the problems it had as I was looking forward to it. And now the game is on sale, so I am wrestling with whether to take the plunge. Have an awesome boxing day!
@-wc- I think it simply notes that the journalists here played the game at launch, and likely haven't revisited it themselves since. (Busy life - we can all relate) So they are letting us know that those issues did exist in case we are thinking of trying it. They can't in full conscience say "it's all cleared up now" because they don't know - so they add this proviso. Pretty fair I think. As to a previous point you raised above, they were trying to recognise that their review would be read by multiple different audiences, and are trying to respect that. Old school JRPG fans will have no issue with some of the mechanics on display, BUT if you're not, some of the mechanics will in fact feel dated and clunky (perhaps a reflection on random encounters which are mostly gone from modern titles, etc.) From the perspective of a person who checked out a lot of reviews on this one, I think NL are trying to be fair as best they can here.
For your benefit, as you say you are keen to try it out in future 🙂, the reviews on site Switch it up might be useful to you, as they like to focus on performance issues. They noted that the original messy release (and it was quite poor apparently - REALLY slow load times on menus causing each new menu screen to take multiple seconds to load, even when already on the menu screen) has been addressed, but is still...not excellent. I think apparently they now have a dedicated performance mode which makes it smoother at some other sacrifices, but it's worth checking those out to compliment your understanding before buying. Hope you enjoy the game when you get around to it. 🙂
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Thank you very much! I was sad to hear all the problems it had as I was looking forward to it. And now the game is on sale, so I am wrestling with whether to take the plunge. Have an awesome boxing day!
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@-wc- I think it simply notes that the journalists here played the game at launch, and likely haven't revisited it themselves since. (Busy life - we can all relate) So they are letting us know that those issues did exist in case we are thinking of trying it. They can't in full conscience say "it's all cleared up now" because they don't know - so they add this proviso. Pretty fair I think. As to a previous point you raised above, they were trying to recognise that their review would be read by multiple different audiences, and are trying to respect that. Old school JRPG fans will have no issue with some of the mechanics on display, BUT if you're not, some of the mechanics will in fact feel dated and clunky (perhaps a reflection on random encounters which are mostly gone from modern titles, etc.) From the perspective of a person who checked out a lot of reviews on this one, I think NL are trying to be fair as best they can here.
For your benefit, as you say you are keen to try it out in future 🙂, the reviews on site Switch it up might be useful to you, as they like to focus on performance issues. They noted that the original messy release (and it was quite poor apparently - REALLY slow load times on menus causing each new menu screen to take multiple seconds to load, even when already on the menu screen) has been addressed, but is still...not excellent. I think apparently they now have a dedicated performance mode which makes it smoother at some other sacrifices, but it's worth checking those out to compliment your understanding before buying. Hope you enjoy the game when you get around to it. 🙂