[ Каскадный ] · Стандартный · Линейный [NSW] Tales of Vesperia Definitive Edition, и Tales of Symphonia Remastered

[dimm0505]

Хорошие вести с полей. Ремастер замечательной jRPG от BandaiNamco не обделит своим вниманием и наш любимый Свитч. Пока это все подробности.

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Сообщение отредактировал dimm0505 - Вторник, 13 сентября 2022, 23:58

[dimm0505]

Геймплей ремастера:

Порт неудачный, ремастером такое не назовешь (особенно после Метроида):

Unfortunately, I don't have as many kind words for the latest remaster, which is not only the first time it's been re-released on a Nintendo system, but also only the third time ever that the game has been made available in the west. There are enough problems with Tales of Symphonia Remastered that it feels generous calling it a remaster at all—not only does it lack any new features or improvements at all, but it retains every technical flaw from previous re-releases while managing to introduce brand new problems of its own.

The issues with the PS3 port (which can also be found on Steam) ultimately don't add up to much, and if you've never played the game before you probably won't even notice most of them. The same can't be said of the new issues introduced in the Remaster. Loading times between maps, which used to be miniscule, are now several seconds long. Colors are less vibrant across the board with the game's brightness being turned down in all scenes. Textures have been AI upscaled, with visual details devolving into a smeary soup as a result. The battle UI now features texture seams not present in any other version, and small icons and text fonts now have visible compression artifacts. One especially egregious example I noticed was a small black line that consistently appeared above any lowercase w in dialogue.

Some of Symphonia's graphical effects are now simply broken. The pause screen which previously appeared on top of whatever was happening in the game now features a plain black background. The stylish animation that transitions between exploration and combat is completely missing, replaced with a hard cut to black followed by a hard cut to white that fades in after a couple seconds. Cutscenes also appear to have lost the ability to crossfade, now abruptly jump-cutting between shots that used to be slow transitions. The only genuine improvement in this version is that the game runs at 1080p, a record high for console versions of Symphonia—but a lot has been sacrificed to get there.

The bare minimum for a port of a retro game should be that you won't notice any technical problems if you haven't played the original, and Tales of Symphonia Remastered does not even clear that bar. It is playable; it's still Tales of Symphonia, but that is the absolute least we can ask of it, and that is the absolute most we've gotten from it.