Grandia HD Collection

[Musashi]

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2024...ter-this-month

This compilation which released on Switch and PC back in 2019 will now be produced for PS4/X1 on March 26. Like the Switch game, it will see a Limited Run Games pressing as well.

A pair of epic RPGs with cool cinematics and hybrid conventional/tactical battle systems that should be fun for anyone who likes the genre.

Edit: Thought they would take longer to come out, but they're 2 weeks away from the time of this post

[Talal86]

Aren't these HD ports glitchy or something? or did they fix them?

[dyne]

The first game had a softening filter. Couldn't remember the rest of the issues but this post at reddit sums it up.

Grandia 1 HD was worse than anyone could have expected. Softening filters make everything look worse, lose details and expose some seams in some surfaces. Feena sprites are broken. They based the port around the PlayStation version which had worse water and ground textures than the OG Saturn version. Water wavy effects were less pronounced than Saturn version too. PlayStation version warped textures due to hardware constraint, and this HD version just kept that warping, didn't bother fixing anything. No skybox. Missing the baked-in static shadows around the environments. Only improvement over the Saturn version was proper transparency.

Grandia 2 had no glaring issues from what I could remember.