So, I don't know if this was common knowledge and I just completely missed it, but I thought I'd share what I discovered about SD Gundam today.
So y'know it's a dual-cart release? I thought that was like the old days, where you got up to x point in the game then had to switch to the next one, like Final Fantasy VII for example.
Nope, nothing like that. The second cart is basically just a glorified download voucher. You insert it and it spends like half an hour 'installing', during which it adds 3.1GB of data from the game application which was installed from the first cart.
If you try booting without the install, the game boots but simply says "Necessary data has not been installed". So you can't play at all without the install.
There's also already a 15MB patch and judging by the DLC schedule included in the release, I'm assuming there will be many more.
What a bummer. I mean, on the plus side, it means this game will be playable long after Sony's Vita servers go down, which is good. I just find it a bit disingenuous that this is called a dual-cart release but it's basically a single-cart release with a download. A 3GB download.
As much as I love Bamco for being prompt with their Asian-English releases, between this and Gundam Breaker 3's 1.8GB of patches, I'm getting a bit tired of them taking up most of my memory
(although to be fair, I thought the "will be playable long after Sony's Vita servers go down" paragraph would've given the game away since downloads are tied to servers?)Sorry
edit: Ohhhh I see. I put "download" instead of "install" at the bottom. My bad. This flu is knocking me for 6. Sorry!
Still, I'm seriously the only one who was expecting to be able to play it across two carts and not have effectively a patch in physical format? Meh.
This matches up to my thoughts on Stranger of Sword City too. I really enjoyed it but if you've played any Experience games before, a lot of it seems formulaic- it seemed weird that my party setup from Operation Abyss translated pretty well to SoSS. It suffers from the same issue of a lack of abilities for physical characters compared to magical ones, tending to be 'power up', 'hit lots of people' or 'hit one person really hard', as opposed to a lengthy spell list.
Nobody is missing anything with Space Hulk, it's a really poor port. Navigation of the interface has done nothing to account for the fact that it's a grid-based game on a device that has a perfect input for it (d-pad), and the text suffers from a common PC-Vita downfall of being too small. It's an awesome board game, I would have been happy with having a top-down mode rather than trying to replicate the mouse-based interface, but it's obviously a quick-and-dirty port.
I loved Adventures of Mana but I'm happy to admit that as a long-time fan of the GameBoy game my opinion is probably pretty biased, not sure what I'd make of it if I encountered it anew. Swapping weapons for traversal felt a little too arduous these days (although you do have quick-key options), I would have
.I recall there being a jrpg either on ps2 or the original xbox and when you'd get to the post game if you wanted to enter one of the early game towns it'd ask you to insert the first cd. So basically post game was on one cd, while the rest of the game was on another. Doesn't work so well with jrpgs with an overworld
Let's hope you are wrong so I can play this one
(until Deus Ex Go releases at PSX '17 )I hope I'm wrong too. It sounds neat from everything I've heard about it. Closest we'll get to a Deus Ex game on Vita at the moment too
