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The story
On September 16, Square Enix released an update for the Steam version of Torneko’s Great Adventure: Mystery Dungeon – A Slightly Nice Remaster. Other platforms will get the update as they become ready. On a 5ch hardware/industry (“geha”) board thread, many users asked why the fixes couldn’t have been made before release, given how soon after launch they arrived, while others noted that console versions face a certification process that delays updates, and the conversation also touched on comparisons with Shiren the Wanderer 6, which launched around the same time.
What people said
Today, we released an update for the Steam version including the content below.
For other platforms, we plan to roll out the update as soon as preparations are complete.
Obviously because the people who made it have zero interest in the actual content.
Thanks to the paying customers doing the debugging for free, that's how.
Guess this just proves humans still beat AI in this particular field.
Guess the plan is to let the paying customers handle QA.
Console versions lag behind because they have to go through the hardware maker's certification process.
There was that whole incident where an update got pushed through without review and ended up shipping with a virus, and it became a huge problem…
And they're still doing no-review updates? (´・ω・`)
They say Romancing SaGa gets such high praise because almost the entire staff are hardcore Romancing SaGa fans themselves.
Yeah, even watching the livestreams you can tell the devs genuinely love the original.
Nope, not yet.
It's wild you hadn't picked up something that fun until now.
Mystery Dungeon-style games really are great, aren't they.
It means the staff get to clock out on time, that's why.
Because Torneko being so rough made people re-appreciate how polished Shiren is.
Kind of sad if you can only appreciate something's appeal by comparing it to something else.
I'm still hitting spots where pressing diagonal doesn't move me diagonally. Has the update just not reached me yet?
Right now it's Steam-only.
From what I've seen in streams it does look improved.
But so far only the Steam version has actually gotten the update.
Wait, don't tell me it's Steam-only and the Switch version got pushed to the back of the line?
Seriously, that's enough to make you lose it, right? Hey.
Not just this game — Switch versions always get their updates late.
What is this guy even talking about.
Well, from a player's point of view,
no matter how much better a game becomes through updates,
if a player quits at the very start,
that's the end of it for them.
So really, having it in the best shape possible
right from the beginning
is always going to be better.
This kind of remake mostly sells to tamed diehard fans anyway, so it's not really an issue.
My bad.
There's no way they wouldn't have noticed it during testing.
If they'd had an AI handle it, this might've slipped through, since it's not a progression-blocking bug.
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
The Steam version can receive patches from the developer at any time, but console versions have to clear each hardware maker’s certification process, which typically delays rollout anywhere from a few days to a few weeks — that structural difference is why thread posters singled the update out as “Steam-only” or said the “Switch version got pushed to the back of the line.” The exchanges in the thread suggest this update mainly improves diagonal-input responsiveness, while other issues — like the control freeze during level-ups — remain unfixed. The conversation later drifted toward comparisons with Shiren 6, likely because that similarly-themed title, released around the same time, offered a natural benchmark for polish; it’s worth noting that comments about pricing and quality reflect individual opinions rather than any official comparative data. Likewise, the recurring question of “why couldn’t this have been fixed before release” mostly comes from speculation by people without direct insight into the actual development and QA process, and no definitive conclusion was reached in the thread.
*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry, “Geha”) thread “[Breaking] Torneko’s God-Tier Update Drops!!.”
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