so I got Ultimate Shooting Collection for Wii yesterday.
omg... they seriously fukked it up so bad... so, so, bad lol.
so I'ma use Karous as my basis...
first of all, the game is american and thus translated. Unfortunately, when you are playing it the screen does not fit on my TV!! The bottom and top of the screen are cut off, so I cannot see my life bar, my score, or half the text that appears at the dialogue box at the bottom!! And the game offers no option to fix or adjust this.
and that's not all, what text I can indeed see actually cant really be seen at all... it's so small and squished together that you would need a huge ass TV to decipher any of it. I guess I wont be able to enjoy these games' story lol.
I feel real bad for the company now, becoz sum1 actually put the time and effort to translating all the game's text, then programming it into the game with a brutal space limitation for such a lost cause.
so... in comparison I dropped the japanese karous disc I had into my dreamcast. I cant read japanese worth shyt, but my background in chinese allows me to understand and identify the strokes. I'm glad to say, I can definitely make out the text characters in the japanese version as long as theyre not too complex. Then again, the characters arent squished together there so I dont think this is a fair comparison. Plus the dialog box was made with these characters in mind, so again the programming of this game's domestication was real rushed.
finally, for kicks I put the game into tate mode to see if it solves the screen visibility.
it does, I can see everything, but the text is still squished and this still hard to read.
and then this is where the game really fukks up... in Tate mode, the game not only turns your screen sideways, but your controls too!!!
so when you press UP in tate mode, your character moves left, and when you press LEFT your character moves down!! The tate mode in this game was made to literally play the game while viewing it on its side as opposed to placing your TV on its side!!!
dumbest shyt ever... seriously. lol.
as far as the games themselves, they are what they are. Theyre fun, but yes they're not cave or capcom shmups. Still, theyre hard to enjoy when you cant even see your lifebar!!