2010-03-29, 04:56 PM
The bugs were in the original game for sure...its obvious From Software didnt put a ton of effort into this remake...but the bugs are mostly fixable using workarounds. There are many things that are not fixable that I dont consider bugs, but shortcomings in SOM itself that From never bothered to address...such as not switching to the shop music when you enter a shop like KF1 did (you can do it but once the song plays through it won't auto loop in SOM), the Moonlight and Triple Fang sword do not restore HP and MP over time since SOM can't activate both affects in the item editor, there is no title screen music eventhough the music track is included...that sort of thing. They dont break the game but I would have liked to be able to fix them.
The bugs I fixed were enemies that got stuck in walls and got the game to crash (From was too lazy to place "set zones" for the enemies to keep them from wandering through walls that allow them to fall through the floor and crash the game.), I fixed the stone masks which were firing their projectiles into the walls instead of at the player, I fixed a bug where the moonstone was not a consumable item and didnt restore magic, I fixed some issues with some events that were improperly written that caused certain things to dissappear when they shouldn't have, and I also had to make some of the rare drops (like the dungeon key which is necessary to finish the game) a crucial item so they didnt disappear if you didnt notice it and pick it up when you kill the monster that holds it.
Overall, the PS1 version of this game is far superior...it really makes me sad to know that SOM couldnt even build KF1 properly.
As for enemies increasing strength, they did put multiple versions of the same enemy in the different areas so their stats are increased in the lower levels, though in my opinion not nearly enough (nor were they in the original game). All in all I give the game a 8.5/10 for mirroring the original, but there are some features, such as the fact that pitfalls that block special items that in the original game required the feather boots can be walked around in SOM rather easily, that drop its score a bit.
The bugs I fixed were enemies that got stuck in walls and got the game to crash (From was too lazy to place "set zones" for the enemies to keep them from wandering through walls that allow them to fall through the floor and crash the game.), I fixed the stone masks which were firing their projectiles into the walls instead of at the player, I fixed a bug where the moonstone was not a consumable item and didnt restore magic, I fixed some issues with some events that were improperly written that caused certain things to dissappear when they shouldn't have, and I also had to make some of the rare drops (like the dungeon key which is necessary to finish the game) a crucial item so they didnt disappear if you didnt notice it and pick it up when you kill the monster that holds it.
Overall, the PS1 version of this game is far superior...it really makes me sad to know that SOM couldnt even build KF1 properly.
As for enemies increasing strength, they did put multiple versions of the same enemy in the different areas so their stats are increased in the lower levels, though in my opinion not nearly enough (nor were they in the original game). All in all I give the game a 8.5/10 for mirroring the original, but there are some features, such as the fact that pitfalls that block special items that in the original game required the feather boots can be walked around in SOM rather easily, that drop its score a bit.
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