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@topsekret If it’s LRG, I’ll turn to my friends at PlayAsia and import the heck out of it.

They don’t look horrible.

I kinda like the primarily-black thing Nintendo is going for so far. You know down the road they’ll go for the wacky (at least I hope they do!) but it gives a more unified look to the system with the color accents instead of the HEY LOOK IM ALL PURPLE/ORANGE/PINK/EYE SEARING YELLOW the S1 joy-cons had.

And yes, I say this as someone who happily bought a set of said EYE SEARING YELLOW joy-cons back in the day, recently got replacements from Nintendo after their batteries died.

@Daniel36 What a grognard!

“The studio was mostly focused on mobile development, but also assisted other Ubisoft teams and had worked on major Ubisoft IP including Rainbow Six and Assassin's Creed.”

This more than anything else tells me that this probably was NOT related to unionization. If they’re mostly a mobile development team, that’s kind of a hard space to succeed in these days and Ubisoft might have decided it wasn’t worth the effort anymore.

I’ll take the cover of the one not published by LRG.

Can confirm this runs beautifully on S2, and looking forward to playing as the Great Old Devourer!

@Scrubelicious Both are true. There’s no contradiction. It can be expensive but still worth it if one is willing to spend the money.

I shot him in the face at every opportunity.

The other NPCs I only did to hear the different voices they used. But I took pleasure in hitting Myles every time I saw him. Especially after he upgrades my shot. He was the test dummy. Always.

I hope there’s far fewer other people in 5.

Interesting, so it’s a patch to the game itself and not a piece of DLC in the store?

Good. That solves any possible region-coding issues for those of us who imported physical copies!

@FancyJehuty …you really thought this was appropriate to post, eh?

Now do P5R please, Sega.

@TomSupreme It amuses and disturbs me when people say things like, “gooners incoming” when people are annoyed at censorship. People are WAY too comfortable dismissing changes like this.

Never support censorship. That way actual bad things lie, not just “hur dur gooners.”

@Sambuc I know this may shock you, but the installed base of Switch 1 consoles still dwarfs the Switch 2 installed base.

This also may shock you, but those Switch 1 owners buy games and exchange money to do so on a regular basis, and developers of games like money.

Even more shocking, they PLAY games on their Switch 1.

I know this is overwhelming, but let it sink in.

@ShadLink “I don’t notice it so DF is being a bunch of Sony fanboys”

That’s…certainly an interpretation.

@imgrowinglegs Some interviews with the maker(s) seemed to indicate they were debating whether to redo Zero first or 3rd, which baffles me. Like…how is this even a choice?

@OmegaX83

Trails in the Sky 1-3
Trails from Zero-Trails into Azure
Trails of Cold Steel 1-4
Trails Into Reverie
Trails Through Daybreak 1-2

That’s all the games that exist at the moment, with another game coming early next year. All except Sky 2-3 are available on current consoles in some form, and Sky 2-3 can be played on PC.

@metaphysician I used the correct words. I have no PC.

@NinjaWaddleDee I can safely say that when the credits rolled on 1, I would have immediately paid to jump into a remake of 2. I actually considered seeing if any friends had a laptop/desktop PC they weren’t using so I could leap right into the Steam version.

Does that help?

@imgrowinglegs I’ll wait for the remakes, then. No matter how easy it is, I won’t mod my precious Vita and I’d prefer playing the official release.

I’m content to wait! I’ll be annoyed if they pivot to Crossbell instead of doing the third game next, though…

@imgrowinglegs I was under the impression that the 3rd Sky game didn’t get an English release other than PC?

I have a Vita. But knowing that the third game didn’t get an English release made me decide to not waste money on the psp 2nd one and just wait for the inevitable remake.

@UltimateOtaku91 Too late, already bought them digitally on PS and imma play what I bought.

The advice is appreciated, though!

@imgrowinglegs I’m not waiting till later next year and then whenever they get around to Sky 3 to play them. I’m relatively safe playing the Crossbell games and the first two Cold Steel games, but then I’m obviously stopping.

I have no PC to play 3rd on.

I played 1st a couple months ago.

IMMEDIATELY knew I’d need the rest of this series ASAP. Playing the Crossbell games right now even though I know it spoils some of Sky 2 and 3, but given how many of these games there are…I want to get further in before I die.

2nd will be a day 1 purchase for me.

@darkswabber PS5 for me, then waiting for a GKC sale. 0 went on sale very quickly and PlayAsia had 1&2 on sale rather quickly for S2.

@Unit_DTH Is this a Nintendo direct? I thought this was from Sega themselves. Maybe I misread.

Aaaaand preordered.

So looking forward to this. Yakuza 3 was the first game in the series I played, and getting to replay it in high-def is going to be fantastic.

@kmtrain83 I would be an idiot and immediately buy BG3 for S2 without hesitation at full price, even though I already have it for PS5.

@DashKappei “you do realize the “free upgrade” is only valid if you already own the game and for many others it is simply Divinity 2 for Switch 2?”

Well yes. That’s what we’re talking about. A free upgrade for existing owners. Underline the word free.

“It’s more than fine to criticize this port for not including mouse mode and a performance-mode at 40fps handheld.”

Of course it is. And if you scroll back slightly, my actual issue was with someone whining that portable mode wasn’t 60fps.

“You’re tired of people whining?”

Sure am! It gets tiresome.

“What’s way worse is people patronizing others on how they want to spend their hard earned money and having different, higher standards.”

Nah. I’m fine with patronizing people who complain about free things, especially when said free thing makes the recent Skyrim “upgrade” look pathetic. Now that I DID complain about because it actually introduced new issues that didn’t exist in the orginal Switch port. That’s an example of a valid complaint.

No mouse support in this game? It absolutely would be nice. 40fps portable? Very much so! Hopefully those will come down the road. But you know what didn’t have to happen at all? An actual Switch 2 upgrade for free.

@larausjarod That’s how it works! You just get the free upgrade option in the store and your S2 downloads the specific S2 assets. You still need the cart inserted in the S2 to play, of course.

@Pak-Man If they did a full Legends/Tron Bonne compilation, I would be so intensely happy.

sighs in lack of Mega Man Legends

It’s good to see Capcom giving us these collections of classic games!

@Anti-Matter We’ll all find out. I imported the PS5 disc and the Switch 2 game card and HOPING there’ll be no issue. That’ll be up to how Level 5 did things.

@DarkTron I’m tired of people whining about free things that make existing things better. Especially from people who (like me) almost certainly have zero knowledge about what it takes to make these upgrades happen. And especially when 48 hours ago none of us even knew this upgrade EXISTED.

Also, if you think me calling out someone for making a silly statement is “brigading” then you must be new to the internet.

@brandonbwii Very fair! I don’t disagree.

@PikaPhantom It’s very possible. Hopefully they’ll add it in later.

I just love it when people complain about a solid upgrade and say “that’s stupid” when 30 fps portable is the ONLY downside of the upgrade. Higher res, better performance docked, improved load times…

@Vyacheslav333 Do you honestly think Larian (edit: Or whoever is responsible for the port) wouldn’t have done 60fps in portable if they could have at that moment? Maybe a future patch might implement VRR for portable and aim for higher, but it feels like 60fps for this may have been a target they couldn’t hit now.

Good grief. People are never happy, especially with free upgrades.

@cylemmulo Second paragraph of the article tells you all you need to know.

Well, the Switch version is no longer on my radar to purchase, then.

I’d have taken a delay over this stupidity.

Anyone defending this crap port: “Leave the multi-million dollar corporation alone!!!”

Aspyr is pretty much synonymous with horrible ports and broken promises at this point anyway. I expect nothing from them.

@Glasso If you genuinely don’t see the difference between this cheap shoddy port and Skyward Sword, there’s nothing anyone can say to ever convince you otherwise.

@The_Nintendo_Expat Paranormasight, Octopath 1 (at first), Daemon X Machina, Golf Story, Shin Megami Tensei V (at first), Triangle Strategy (at first), quite a few VNs including Fate/Stay Night and Fate/hollow ataraxia…

That’s just from my own personal library after a quick skim. All console exclusive to Switch, at least at first.

@purple_shyguy My worry level is zero. Every platform has games that are horribly optimized. All we have to do is just vote with our wallets and not reward them with a purchase. They’ll learn or go away, and the good ones will stay.

I can’t believe Capcom has the brass balls to keep selling cloud versions of those games.

@MitchK Don’t hurt yourself getting off that soapbox.

@aresius This is the way. Reward the developers who do a good job, and vote with your wallet. Cyberpunk 2077 runs well on S2, better than I ever thought it could. PS5/Series X runs better, but it’s hard to take those with you!

It seems like some devs can make the Switch 2 hardware sing (Star Wars Outlaws, Cyberpunk 2077, No Man’s Sky) and some (Skyrim, this lackluster port) …can’t.

So freaking lazy.

@Ploppy If you have a PS5 to try out that demo, the Switch 2 version basically as good as the PS5 version.

I say this owning both systems and having tried the PS5 demo and also as an owner of the S2 version.

Definitely worth the $5 early upgrade cost. Stupid backlog is keeping me from giving it the attention it deserves, though.

A friend of mine had the NES Jaws when I was growing up, but never wanted to play it.

I hate that this is from LRG.

@JohnnyMind “Leave the multi-million dollar corporation alone!”

I kid!

That said, the game is over a decade old, started out on the PS3/360 and has gotten more releases than almost any non-Nintendo game ever other than Grand Theft Auto V.

This is a sloppy port and needs far more work.

@daycamp The difference is night and day. You can find many comparison videos showing just how improved it is.

@Glasso glances at Star Wars Outlaws, Cyberpunk, No Man’s Sky, Red Dead Redemption and other good S2 ports that have been made

Yeah, no. It’s the devs who are dropping the ball, sorry.

…how is it not 60fps? At this point there is zero excuse.

@DreadfulDragon This article isn’t about Veilguard. Prime 4 is actually a GOOD game.