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I'm more interested in news about the translation of Saturn Grandia...
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At E3 2019, GungHo Online Entertainment kindly invited us to their private conference room for a gameplay demo and presentation for Grandia HD Collection coming to Switch. With the game coming out in a few days, we’ve rounded up all the important details and new information below that producer Takeshi Minagawa was able to share with us.
Here’s the full rundown:
Overall
– Dual pack of Grandia & Grandia II is exclusive to Switch.
– Steam will have both games up as separate purchases.
– French, German, English, Japanese text options available.
– New translation of French and German. Translated more than 1 million words across both games. Wish they could have added more languages, but time constraints restricted them.
– Audio language can be switched on the fly in the options menu.
– GungHo is working with Sickhead Games in Texas. Minagawa tells us it is a small team who are all extremely careful with the source material.
– 1080p.
– Minagawa’s personal favorite is Grandia.
– Minagawa said they do check online for fan feedback to see what players want.
– He knows some fans were not satisfied with the PS2 version of Grandia II.
– It was extremely important to Minagawa to pay respect to the original versions of the games, and he doesn’t want to disappoint fans. Trying to balance just the right amount of change in updating the games. He wants to satisfy those who want an updated version, and those who want to retain the original feeling.
– When prompted with the question if we could see Grandia III re-release or a new game in the Grandia series, Minagawa responded, “I’m not sure, but we’re working on it.”
Grandia
– Opening movie has been extended to fit 16:9 aspect ratio.
– All fonts, icons and character portraits have been updated.
– Sickhead Games had to extract the textures and update them all manually.
– Minagawa didn’t want to overwork the visuals too much; he wanted to retain the original feeling of the game.
– Based off of the Saturn version. Development had the Saturn version side-by-side with the new versions to give great care to the visuals.
Grandia II
– Based on the PC Anniversary Edition.
– Steam version will receive an update to put it on par with the Switch version.
– Movies and animations have been updated to 16:9 aspect ratio.
– Reworked everything they possibly could; some fonts were embedded in the PC programming itself, so they couldn’t access it.
– Environments, textures, icons, characters, etc. were all updated.
– They were still working on optimizing certain areas at the time like forests, which use a large amount of polygons.
– Some high level magic and attack animations in battle use a full movie and sprites, so the development team had to manually program everything to work in 16:9 aspect ratio.
Find some screenshots of Grandia HD Collection below
So I'm guessing they extracted them from the Playstation version then. The PS1 version uses standard TIM textures and are rather easy to extract from the files. Saturn's are instead VDP2 tile maps that are palette based. While they're not hard to get out, there aren't as many easy to use tools out there for extracting them, while PS1 TIM extractors are a dime a dozen. Which would explain why the battle backgrounds look like the PS1 version and the floor textures are like the PS1 version.Quote:
Originally Posted by SegataS
Unless they've changed it dramatically in the past month, I'm calling bullshit on this. All footage they've shown so far points to it being a 1:1 port of the PS1 version.Quote:
Originally Posted by SegataS
Agreed. I was going to buy this day 1 but it's sounding like a letdown. I will wait for a sale. Use that spare 20$ I had this month for MUA3 DLC instead.
Its either bullsh8t or a typo by Nintendo everything. Even the battle transitions are straight for the PS versionQuote:
Originally Posted by TrekkiesUnite118
So when do we get the community hack for Saturn assets?
40 fucking dollars!
What the fuck?! Really?! If Physical I'd bite but digital? Fuck off! That shit better be 50% off before I buy this then.
We're getting close to black Friday, it might just be half off then. I can wait also. Getting it physical for sure myself. Very excited about this.
There is no physical version happening sadly.
wait, after all these "great" news, it's even digital only?
Si.
The news just gets better, it is the PS version. Think I'll stick with the Saturn and DC classics.Quote:
Originally Posted by Virtua Hunter
What a joke
Oh damnQuote:
Originally Posted by SegataS
Too bad.
Enter: Limited Run Games or Play Asia :rock:
I'm going to rub on the grain here and say that while there is no physical version of the game, I think the $40.00 price tag for two amazing RPGs is worth the price of admission. I've been playing it all night last night and hadn't put it down once. Mind you while I finished the Saturn version and played it on the original PlayStation, I can see where a lot of the improvement to the game was done. It's still blowing my mind at the 100% non-existent load times for one thing.
Overall where I can see some areas where things could have been done better, I really have no complaints. I feel while some of you guys are seriously over-complaining about some of this but, I can also see where you're coming from as well seeing this is also one of my favorite RPG series.
On a scale of 1 to 10, I'd give it about a close to an 8 as possible. The fact I can get the Japanese Audio with English text was a huge win for me. lol