#wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if they're making DLC somehow tbh

[jaythelay]

SH2 remake beat expectations, haven't gotten past the apartments yet but it's surprising that it's actually competant, given Konami's downright horrific handling of their major gaming divisions and in addition IPs.

My main gripe is the graphics. One, all I can think going through the rather limited and limiting graphics settings is "Boy fuckin HOWDY there's entire countries that will never be able to play this" followed by "Even a 3090 isn't enough for these fuckin games like why the hell bother with triple a???"

It's rather insane how poorly optimized it is. It looks like absolute dogshit with AA and upscalers off, and runs even worse without upscalers. I will say finally having a reeeeally high quality monitor with HDR has opened my eyes to modern gaming's reasoning behind graphical fidelity and even desaturation, if ya got a bright as hell monitor with insane colors, yeah, I get it, still looks like shit without reshade tho.

HDR is a nightmare and I don't get how companies are so bad at this. Your reference images are quite literally useless and represent nothing in-game. This goes for the entire industry not just this game. It's rather incredible seeing an entire corner section of a room go from absolute black to having any detail by adjusting some settings. Straight up, I don't know how brightness options are so hard to get right, and they were miserable to set up to what I can accept, but likely not what was intended.

The combat is always meant to feel the way it does and they did alright. Dodging is a genuinely good addition I feel is a bit clunky. Sometimes there's no option other than to take damage it feels, but I'm still getting used to things. Just not much of a "If you press button at wrong time then failure" kinda guy, but it's pretty relaxed at times in that regard. Genuinely not bad stuff, kinda a cut above the rest.

Instead of obnoxious, artistry killing, intelligence insulting yellow paint, they have some of that and white cloth and wow, I didn't think they could make it work but I'll be honest, I have no issues with their methods of direction so far. Like, dude, they used SOUND to help the player navigate. That's so fuckin rare I swear to you, usually it's capcom branded yellow paint or quest markers n whatnot. It's seriously good feeling to see EFFORT in this regard after capcom and co dropping standards so hard. It's good. Really good.

Otherwise my complaint really is just the HDR and performance. I dunno man, I think I'd honestly prefer more people being able to play it than whoever can truly afford the hardware for it. Like bro, the 40 series is all above half a thousand dollars. No thanks, that used to get you a whole ass PC, I'm no chump. Used 3090 should be far and a ways more than enough for any game.

Just nonsense that games are made with the highest degree of hardware and barely give a shit for anything even mildly below that. Then the forced AA and upscaling, jesus christ it's like they only want their games viewed after youtube's compression and not at all played for real. Looks horrible like why the hell is Jame's hair glitching sideways, why are leaves leaving god damn smear trails as tall as James? All this graphical fidelity and the second I turn it's gone and takes a second to adjust. Bro, pick and choose, make it look good and run well or don't bother because no one will be able to enjoy it. Especially hair, oh my god I hate all of it. Pixel nightmares, just make it a setting already, have a blur for hair option, anything but making your game look like that or worse, TAA'd.

Anyways I reccomend pirating it as I do anything Konami. Better for your soul, better for the industry, better for employees, better for the consumer! Everyone wins!