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Dark Souls Remastered Network Test (Switch) available in eshop now
- Thread starter Tambini
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The best part of this game compared to other games in the series is the world design. And I don't mean aesthetics (though those are nice too) but the way everything interconnects seamlessly. It's really mind blowing going through the game blind and finding all of those shortcuts back to places you recognize.
The lore and atmosphere is great too, I just think the level design is what turns this game from great to absolute masterpiece.
Some impressions after playing in portable mode for about an hour:
- Looks good, runs smooth. Although the text looks really weird in portable mode. Not illegible, but weird.
- The network part of this network test was...not great. I got summoned once, and when my summoner was killed his character just stood there motionless for a solid 5 seconds before the game registered his death. I invaded probably 6 or 7 times and no session felt even close to lag free (though some were better than others)
- Man switching the A and B buttons around really screwed me up. I hope that's can be switched on release.
- The sound is HORRIBLY compressed. I hope it's just to keep the file size of the demo down, but I have a bad feeling Namco is trying to save money by using a smaller cartridge.
- Looks good, runs smooth. Although the text looks really weird in portable mode. Not illegible, but weird.
- The network part of this network test was...not great. I got summoned once, and when my summoner was killed his character just stood there motionless for a solid 5 seconds before the game registered his death. I invaded probably 6 or 7 times and no session felt even close to lag free (though some were better than others)
- Man switching the A and B buttons around really screwed me up. I hope that's can be switched on release.
- The sound is HORRIBLY compressed. I hope it's just to keep the file size of the demo down, but I have a bad feeling Namco is trying to save money by using a smaller cartridge.
There are options to switch A and B in the configure buttons menu but those are greyed out, presumably for the demo. If it wasn't going to be available in the full game they wouldn't have actually been there at all.
Regarding the file size it's going to be around 4GB which is about what the 360/PS3 version was, so hopefully the audio was indeed just compressed for the small demo (800 MB).
No gyro aiming and reverse A/B button are deal breaking for me. The port is good from the technical stand point, but in this state it doesn't "fit" the Switch at all.
Still such a brilliant and unique game. Not sure if I want to play it again on Switch as I don't want to spoil the memories of playing it back in the day. Will be hard to resist, though.
Ok so this is the first time ever playing a souls game and I'm not that impressed so far.
Anyway enough about that, how do I pull the lever?
Anyway enough about that, how do I pull the lever?
I swapped attacking to the face buttons because of this. I just can use the shoulder buttons for anything other then occasional button pretty. Putting the weapon stance swap and estes flask on the L/R buttons helped.
Bows aren't how you should be playing Dark Souls in the first place. There are literally tens of viable builds you can go through before you have to do a bow build.
That's not the point. Most games on Switch use gyro aiming, why not Dark Souls? It's becoming a de-facto standard.
That's a relief to hear. I already preordered the game, and I prefer a "swapped XBox 360 Inputs" for playing Dark Souls (B is used to roll, A is to check stuff while Y is swap two-handedness and X is use item.)
I'm starting to think the weird framerate issues people are encountering are network related. (Attempts at invading/being invaded)
Some people who played the Japanese test and this current one said this one just runs a lot better. So maybe there was some weird network issue before, yeah. But it ran great for me.
Because aiming is such a small part of the game that it's not needed. For bow aiming you'll be locked on most of the time anyway, and when you aren't you'll be far enough away from enemies that aiming doesn't need any time to do.
Yeah I mean I understand it's silly not to have as an option but I really can't see that being a legitimate dealbreaker for anyone. Unless there are some crazy speed archer builds I've never seen before.
It's a none f2p online network test demo. There's no reason why it would randomly be available to non subscribers.
And from the looks of it, it's not great at leaving a good impression so that argument is invalid too. :P
Ok so it is actually really difficult but, so far to me at least, not in an enjoyable celeste like way. It's really slow and ploddy and I'm just holding block then stab and always die at the archers. When I did finally get past that bit I feel off the bridge, got wrecked by the insane charging rhino and died and now can't pick up that helmet again.
This game doesn't explain anything either, and I mean anything.
This game doesn't explain anything either, and I mean anything.
Important note about this demo: this is the third "area" in the game, so you don't get the same tutorials you do in the real game.
seems like a demo not aimed at newcomers, but more for people who are already familiar with souls game.
MHGU had a similar problem, the demo was complete nonsense to me as i never had played an MH game before and the demo literally explained NOTHING.
This isn't really meant to be a demo for newcomers to experience the game, it's a network stress test for people familiar with the game to play around with. There is a whole tutorial area at the start of the full game.
Probably just a low res alpha and depth of field effect respectively, making it look lower res than it actually is; legacy code and assets from the PS3/360 versions in effect.
People thought the same thing about Captain Toad but that turned out to be running in full, native 1080p docked/720p handheld at all times.
captain toad is native res?! it looked very blurry when i tried the demo.
What others said and please don't let the demo discourage you if you're generally interested. It's one of those games that just absolutely doesn't demo well.
At that stage of the game you would've already gotten a significant amount of practice, including a whole tutorial level with a boss, in. Let me put it this way, I hated it for several hours and actually retuened it to the store on my first try before the fever took hold, I re-bought it and it became one of my Top 5s, if not my favorite game of all time.
It is indeed!
It uses a soft hazey filter in the lava stages; giving the impression of a soft look like on Wii U, but it is indeed 1080p docked and 720p handheld.
Gotta unequip (most of) that armor to get rid of the fat rolling. With good rolling that's definitely the easiest build for the demo.
i played in both japanese and european (ik european) network tests and i got very similar results. Given what i read about it i was expecting a much smoother experience, it basically runs like the 360 version, playable but far from ideal, it looks very nice in handheld mode tho - the only mode in which i played
While it runs notably better now, I got to say that I am not convinced if this title will work well undocked in terms of gameplay. Just feels off and less intuitive when playing handheld. Everything is so small, not only the menu but also the enemies on the Switch screen. I am really skeptical about this. Imagining fighting bosses on that small screen... eh.
Tried it again, couldn't get any of the online features to work. Always failed, both summoning or invading.
I still absolutely hate the controls. Will get this when it's on a deep discount. Full price isn't worth it for me with this one.
I still absolutely hate the controls. Will get this when it's on a deep discount. Full price isn't worth it for me with this one.
Were you the guy who invaded me? That Dark Knight armor man...
I was having issues making enemies out for a bit too until I raised the brightness a few notches, then I didn't have any problems at all.
I hold the screen pretty close to my face though, so I never really have issues with text/menus in handheld mode like some people seem to.
It was just for capture sake.
I was not.
The controls being super weird caused a lot of issues for me too. Plus having pre-made builds you're not used to doesn't help.
They also cut off access to two other bonfires which makes it a lot harder to progress to/past the Gargoyles. Though Black Knight build does make it easy mode.
Does the network test keep any kind of save data? I'm curious if you can return to the home menu during play, quit the game from the home menu (without manually quitting inside the game), and then resume where you left off when you start the game up again.
Nothing wrong with you posting this but I got a good chuckle. Truly feels like I'm in 2011 all over again, haha.