Suikoden STAR LEAP, the free-to-play revival of Konami’s basic RPG sequence, has introduced main updates to the sport’s Japanese model coming in September. In keeping with an in-depth post from the sport’s official X account, new options embody overhauled UI parts, steadiness changes to merchandise drops and fight, new in-game content material, and a large number of quality-of-life enhancements. Updates to the sport’s gacha methods are additionally deliberate, alongside optimization for these taking part in on units with much less out there RAM.
The hefty checklist of deliberate modifications represents a significant overhaul to the sport following its August 6 launch, and gamers are thrilled to see a lot of their early criticisms addressed so shortly. “You infrequently see a dev group that’s so conscious of gamers’ complaints,” one consumer observed. “Every little thing I hoped they’d change has been mounted. Thanks a lot!” One other consumer remarked that different video games usually take years of gradual updates to handle so many points, making this fast replace schedule really stunning.
That’s to not say that participant reception was poor at launch. As we reported recently, regardless of skepticism from long-time followers that STAR LEAP would possibly change into a gacha-driven money seize capitalizing on nostalgia, audiences had been pleasantly stunned by how a lot it looks like a “actual” Suikoden sport, with the live-service parts remaining comparatively unobtrusive. The story and art work have obtained nice reward, with many hailing it as a real return for the sequence following a hiatus that lasted over a decade. The final sport within the sequence was the Japan-only Genso Suikoden: Tsumugareshi Hyakunen no Toki, which launched on PSP in 2012, though Suikoden I & II had been packaged as a remaster on trendy platforms final yr.
Konami, alongside the sport’s developer Mythril, seem to have adopted by on the goodwill they earned from followers following STAR LEAP’s launch in August. Following the replace announcement, followers have remarked that Konami appears critical about reviving the Suikoden model, with some even saying that they’ve raised the bar for cell video games in Japan.
Suikoden STAR LEAP remains to be solely out there as a cell launch in Japan on the time of this writing, however the sport is slated for a world launch within the close to future alongside a PC model, the Steam web page of which is out there here. Hopefully English-speaking gamers gained’t have to attend lengthy to see what Japanese followers have been raving about.
Suikoden Star Leap launches August 7 in Japan, with global and PC release dates to follow