@RainVillain said:
At first I wasn't sure if it was Zelda-style where the game stylishly freezes for a millisecond when you strike something, or if it was just a bad framerate, but now I'm pretty sure it's a mix of both.
It's really weird and, imo, kinda jarring. I think I'm done with this title.
I don't mean to totally bash the game. The music is great and the look of the game is fantastic. The combat seems to have a fair bit of depth and hits feel good, but the slowdown is just really bugging me.
Does it get any better? =/
I can understand how you feel. I think Atlus should feel obliged to release a patch, reason being one of the things they lauded about this western version was it's "technical enhancements" - primarily pertaining to the frame-rate issues the Japanese version had. It's worse... There's a couple of threads on atlus.com that are worth posting in. I think Nintendo are partly to blame also, they should raise the CPU clocks higher, I can think of a few games that need it. I'd email them also, they cleared this game for release.
Edit:
Let me clarify my standpoint once and for all. The way I see it, this is an all party issue, no one party is to blame. It's also an issue which I think breaks from the norm. I know many game have issues like this.. This game isn't "broken", not the Japanese or the NA version, I have never once said it is, I merely agreed with the OP, knowing how it feels to buy a game and have a little issue like this which can ruin it.
When a company claims it's technically enhanced, and aims to imply the enhancement relates to the known issues of a prior version, then I think there is an issue with that.
Atlus: if they were going to claim it was improved, should have made sure it really was improved, after all, a repeat of what happened in Japan would not be good for sales. if they wanted to avoid that, they should have made attempts to make sure via the developers.
Nintendo: They should have been aware of the earlier issues with the Japanese version, and also aware that Atlus were advertising this version as being technically improved, they should have sought assurances and some evidence of this. Nintendo didn't take it upon themselves to do this, if they had this would not have happened.
On their download services, they're extremely nit picky with smaller devs, why couldn't they have been as picky with this cart release?. I personally suspect having a game of this type in the West was their only concern.
I know It's only Nintendo's role to make sure software has a certain level of quality, and doesn't have content which breaks from their rules. I am well aware of this. this doesn't however make their standpoint right, which is to do nothing. Nintendo should be always be unhappy if false advertising result in this, and if the company lacks policies which prevent this kind of thing from happening, they should look to address that in future. That's why i asked the Op to send an e-mail to Nintendo also. I know they don't do this currently!, but they should and they can. I don't expect Nintendo to check every game like this, only in these kind of circumstances where improvements are due.
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