Er, whoops. Aspyr, the developer/porter behind the latest launch of Knights Of The Previous Republic II on Nintendo Swap, has tweeted that it’s conscious the sport is at present not possible to complete.
The Austin-based Aspyr made its identify porting traditional video games to new methods, most lately bringing a slew of Star Wars titles to the Swap. The newest of those is the achingly named however totally great Star Wars: Knights Of The Previous 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 powerful effort from Daniel Moore, who first requested if the corporate was “conscious there isn’t a approach to full this recreation?” Aspyr replied with a relatively ambiguous remark about “a recognized subject that will likely be addressed within the subsequent patch,” then linking to its assist pages. However Moore pressed the studio additional, making clear he was effectively conscious of the problem, then repeating his question. Are they conscious?
Aspyr then replied fessing up. “Sure, we’re conscious,” it mentioned, earlier than including, “our dev staff is engaged on delivering the patch as quickly as potential.”
It seems the sport crashes after taking part in the “Basilisk Crash” cutscene, proven when gamers arrive on Onderon. Which, very troublingly, is about midway by means of the sport.
It raises some relatively vital questions concerning the QA on the sport, that it might be licensed and launched in a kind not possible to complete. There’s additionally the query of for the 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 will be significantly tough on the subject of releasing patches for video games, which can 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. Definitely value holding off selecting up this excellent Obsidian RPG till there’s higher information.
