Hey, it's a good game that just happens to also bring these clowns in.
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Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore announced for Nintendo Switch!
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I played a few hours of this on WiiU. I can't wait to fully play it with the Battle speed up features. That was the most glowing thing it needed. Battle animations are AWESOME to watch!
That's painting in extremely broad strokes and contributes nothing to the actual discussion.
I don't think it's because of licensing: digital games are always expensive from my experience. Day one retail games in Japan are also up there.
This is a niche (re)release so no surprise there.
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The western changes wouldn't be so bad if they didn't look like absolute shit. Like they just painted her skin white. There is no actual costume change. Like if your going to make edits to costumes at least actually add additional costume pieces. Also the stuff they changed is horribly inconsistent. This wedding dress costume for instance isn't that revealing like... at all.. yet there are still other far more revealing outfits still in the american version of the game. Its just an absolute mess of an editing job.
I'm going to buy this one as I loved the original version and having it on the Switch is really convenient, but it's kind of a disappointing port:
-No changes to the inconsistent edits
-No new party members
-AFAIK only a new song and some new dungeons
-No better resolution (this one is the worst offender)
-No new translations or even english dub
I appreciate having quick sessions though, and I recommend this game to all people that never played it on the U, but I expected a better port, having another 720p without antialiasing version feels really lazy and even if there's new content the lack of visual upgrades makes the port the feel worse than all the games that have been released with less new content.
-No changes to the inconsistent edits
-No new party members
-AFAIK only a new song and some new dungeons
-No better resolution (this one is the worst offender)
-No new translations or even english dub
I appreciate having quick sessions though, and I recommend this game to all people that never played it on the U, but I expected a better port, having another 720p without antialiasing version feels really lazy and even if there's new content the lack of visual upgrades makes the port the feel worse than all the games that have been released with less new content.
Some examples like that one or the smoke obscuring Aversa's chest are bad. But others like Tsubasa's hip hop costume are great. They also made the effort to re-record voice lines expressly in the Western version for the age changes, when they refer to how old they are in dialogue.
So it's a mix of bad and good.
It's obvious who actually played the game and judged the changes for themselves. This discourse of "an entire chapter makes no sense" is just blatantly false. Tsubasa overcomes her nervousness at idoling at the end of the dungeon, regardless whether it was a swimsuit or "weird fashion clothes". And that was the point.
This.
I would really like this. Fate/Grand Order added subtitles in the battles whenever Noble Phantasms get fired off, and I love it. Still not subbed every single "shout" or end-battle phrase, but I can take what I can get.
Even as someone who thinks the changes are totally fine - it's nowhere near that kind of game to begin with.
It would make very little sense to advertise this game on TV.
Not to argue against, since I know the viability of selling is a lot lower, but any particular reason why with this game you're saying this with? I've seen some relatively under the radar Otome and Boys Love games be advertised and those often tend to hit a relatively small niche market on Japanese TV. I wish I still had one of my recordings from TV Tokyo while I was watching it, but I remember one in particular being advertised during TV Tokyo's run of TMNT 2012 series, which caught me off guard a bit.
I get the late port aspect and also using the North American version as the basis (since that did apparently cause an uproar in the Japanese community), due to ensuring a quick and easy SKU release being possibly reasons against advertising. But I feel odd that the game is being ported to Switch, since it feels like it was intended to give people a chance to play it that couldn't due to the previous limited platform, but not even as much as a 15 and/or 30 second CM for it is a little odd to me.
Those type of questions make me wonder ultimately what was the purpose of the port if it wasn't to try and give the game another shot, is all.
Because porting is cheap and (almost) everything sells on the Switch. It's kinda a no-brainer.
Investing serious ad money into the game would, most likely, make the project harder to justify financially.
I think the censored wedding dress looks cooler honestly but the uncensored one doesn't really look deserving of censorship, unless there are some.... interesting camera angles used in that section of the game
Honestly, I'm just happy that the game is getting a second chance on the Switch regardless of how much promotion it will or won't get. And they're putting enough effort into the port to add new content and make QoL adjustments. I don't have any delusions that it will light the sales charts on fire, but as a bright, crazy star that shined at the end of the Wii U's life, it has its place on the Switch.
Why do JRPG's always add stuff like this in rereleases ffs, should have been there from the start.
I don't know how anyone finished DQ11 on PC/PS4, ultra fast battle speed was a godsend on the Switch version.
Where did you get info about the Res?
Sorry if it's obvious; that's a massive shame though, must have been a really cheap port. Fair enough, if the game is good that's the most important thing ultimately.
Watch the long Nintendo Japan videos, it's quite obvious that the resolution is 720p (it looks "soft" overall) and that no AA was applied. It's a shame, because the game looks rather nice and a res upgrade and some AA could do wonders for the presentation. I can understand not paying for a dub or new translation, but the Switch is poweful enough to run U games at higher res and I don't think this needs lots of new optimization work.
Pokemon is nearly unbearable right now without a FF option.
I don't understand how every JRPG after Bravely Default didn't have FF and Random encounter rate settings.
If people are so frustrated, there also exists a modded undub version which is the original Japanese version with English subs.
Huh? But this game doesn't have an English dub. And the "issue" is that this Switch version of the game only has one version, and it's based on the Western Wii U release. It extends to Japanese players who are frustrated about the changes themselves.
It will probably be possible to mod the Switch version with the assets from the Japanese Wii U release. There are already lots of other Switch games with mods if you have CFW.
As a side note regarding Atlus games:
They have done similar patches with Persona 3 on PSP, Persona 4 on PS2, Persona 4 Golden on Vita and Persona 4 Ultimax Suplex Hold on PS3, that had only English voices in the story mode, replacing it with Japanese. Only Persona 4 Arena had dual audio. Also Steam version of Catherine featured dual audio, unlike PS3 version. At least ps4 version has dual audio too.
Disappointing to hear that they didn't update the graphics to 1080p or add in some AA and they didn't fix the weird editing of costumes.... Seems like you'd be better off buying the WiiU version and emulating it on PC with the restoration patch, although I haven't checked to see if compatibility has been improved in the past year (used to have sound issues).
Were Tiki, Maiko and Barry confirmed as non-playable characters yet again? I intend to buy this game again since I liked it on Wii U, but if it doesn't have decent new content I'll probably wait for a discount.
Yes, they are 100% just Session extension characters. I thought that was obvious since the announcement, but they've reiterated multiple times that they're there for the Sessions.
I thought that at least Barry could have made it as a party member this time, even if I dislike the guy, that kind of sucks. Thanks for the fast reply.
By doing that you'd miss all the QoL and new content additions.
The ability to skip the Sessions is a godsend at the final dungeon and the endgame.
Loading time and graphics comparison.
While graphic improvements appear to be minimal. Loading time saw a huge improvement with 2 times faster than the Wii U version at minimum.
While graphic improvements appear to be minimal. Loading time saw a huge improvement with 2 times faster than the Wii U version at minimum.
Watching the gamexplain discussion and John said that it's his favorite battle system in an Atlus game. I'm hyped now.
The battle load times look night and day different, holy shit. I remember in the original how you would awkwardly sit on that splash screen for a few seconds and it felt like forever.
Oh definitely. I was shocked at how fast the loading is when entering battles. It's almost like seemless transition lmao.
Disappointing that it's not 1080 docked, not sure if I'll be replaying it either way though.
My phone is having a miserable time loading the video for some reason. Does anybody have a breakdown?
The load times for the game on the Switch is in 2-3 seconds compared to the WiiU's 5-7 seconds.
Awesome. That and being able to skip animations will make replaying this great.