Er, whoops. Aspyr, the developer/porter behind the latest launch of Knights Of The Outdated Republic II on Nintendo Change, has tweeted that it’s conscious the sport is presently inconceivable to complete.
The Austin-based Aspyr made its identify porting basic video games to new programs, most lately bringing a slew of Star Wars titles to the Change. The latest of those is the achingly named however totally fantastic Star Wars: Knights Of The Outdated Republic II – The Sith Lords, launched a few weeks in the past.
However after some urgent from a buyer, the studio acknowledged it’s conscious the sport is presently bugged such that it can’t be accomplished on Nintendo’s handheld.
It was a formidable effort from Daniel Moore, who first requested if the corporate was “conscious there is no such thing as a option to full this recreation?” Aspyr replied with a fairly ambiguous remark about “a recognized difficulty that can be addressed within the subsequent patch,” then linking to its assist pages. However Moore pressed the studio additional, making clear he was properly conscious of the problem, then repeating his question. Are they conscious?
Aspyr then replied fessing up. “Sure, we’re conscious,” it stated, earlier than including, “our dev staff is engaged on delivering the patch as quickly as attainable.”
It seems the sport crashes after enjoying the “Basilisk Crash” cutscene, proven when gamers arrive on Onderon. Which, very troublingly, is about midway via the sport.
It raises some fairly important questions in regards to the QA on the sport, that it could possibly be licensed and launched in a type inconceivable to complete. There’s additionally the query of for a way lengthy Aspyr has been conscious its product has a game-breaking bug that impacts all gamers, however haven’t communicated this to potential and present prospects. We’ve contacted Aspyr to ask these questions.
Nintendo may be significantly troublesome relating to releasing patches for video games, which is able to add to the delay earlier than that is fastened. However crikey, what a mistake to have made, albeit a surprisingly becoming one given the bug-ridden historical past of this 2004 recreation. Actually price holding off choosing up this excellent Obsidian RPG till there’s higher information.
