Tuesday, April 07, 2009

Arcana Heart 2 SUGOI! PS2 is out

And it is the worst port I have ever played in my life.





Seriously way to fuck up Examu/Ecole.

Small summary of shit that is wrong:
WHAT VERSION IS IT?
2.5? 2.6?
It has little bits and pieces from both, though it's probably closer to 2.5 than 2.6.
Lots of changes are not there, some are, it's really a mess.

SLOW DOWNNNN AND KICK HER WITH YOUR ENERGY LEGS!
The video above shows basically the AVERAGE frame rate when trying to play with Petra.
Catherine is just as terrible.
Lilica almost the same.
There was already a ton of hitstop in the arcade version, but now, if you super someone?
Holy shit prepare to wait 2x as long as it should take, good luck timing anything.

SOUND CUTS OUT EVERYWHERE
I honestly don't really care about this, hell I'd have been all for removing the music completely (even if it is awesome) if it'd help the game speed.
As it stands, anytime shit is going on (supers, certain character moves, existing), the sound will randomly crap out.

UGLY DITHERING TRICKS
Perhaps in a futile attempt to save the speed, the game COMPLETELY dithers the shit out of the sprites into crap land constantly when they are in motion.
It also has the effect of flickering the life bars.
In short, there are TONS of single stills of just terrible terrible shitty 16bit looking sprite work.
And it's still slow, so it didn't help jack shit.

1 comment:

Xenozip. said...

You actually bought it? No wonder you're pissed.