Grandia HD Remaster Bugs/Issues
Below is a list of bugs encountered so far in the Switch versions of the Grandia HD Remaster. Please feel free to message me with corrections or additions. I have tried to include screen shots where possible
- Boss battle music plays twice, overlays over itself
- (English Language) In Sult Ruins, when Mio throws away letter, she should say “Bye Bye” but instead uses different audio
- Widescreen causes some characters to stop & disappear before moving out of frame
- Sprite discolouration errors when performing certain moves such as “Fight Cheer”
- Graphical issues with certain spells
- Sprite graphics occasionally tear, especially on larger models such as Gadwin
- Music and sound issues on Pirate Island – music switches to Disk 2 battle theme after the first fi…
GRANDIA HD Remaster Review
When re-examining the HD remaster of Grandia and its sequel, it makes me consider the wide array of re-releases we have seen in recent years. Some publishers set out to re-build the game from scratch with a modern engine and/or a re-imagining of the world’s visual style, while others decide to simply increase the resolution and touch up the in-game models with perhaps only a few alterations to the actual gameplay. Grandia HD Collection certainly sits in the latter category: it is a remaster, not a remake and, for these two games, that is more than enough.
For those not familiar with the original games, the Grandia titles are mostly well known for their unique battle system, which plays loose with the standard turn-based nature of most RPGs …
Interactive maps deactivated!
A while ago (my last blog post actually) I was excited to announce the activation of the Wikia Interactive Maps feature that allowed us to create maps for game areas and pin points of interest. It was quite a good way to highlight a whole town or area and show all the points of interest in a more accessible format than a static map file.
Well... that feature turned out to be too expensive to run with the limited popularity Wikia found it had. An understandable decision on their part but it did remove all those maps from the wiki with nothing left in their place. I will try to find all pages with an empty "Interactive Map" section and remove it but please feel free to do this yourselves if you find one. I placed one on many of the Grandia to…
Interactive maps activated
A new feature I have recently come across on Fallout Wiki is the ability to create maps for places that do not exist in the real world (i.e. Fictional World Maps such as the map for Big MT I saw on Fallout Wiki). You can then add interactive annotations much the same way that you would see shops and train stations on Google Maps.
I remembered that there were some scans for some of the original Grandia locations from the game manual and Prima Guide so I activated the feature and made a map using the scan and the new creation kit on the Wikia site. The result was not too bad. It is only a small area but it brings the old paper scan into the modern age quite nicely. I will display the result below:
19:44, December 3, 2014 (UTC)
The management of Grandia Wiki
Hello again to all contributors, browsers and vandals,
I would like to start by thanking many of you that continue to chomp away at the editing on the wiki - adding little details or busting little errors. It is all positive work so I thank you. I apologise that I have made few edits recently but I assure you that I do check up on the wiki regularly, even if I am but a shadow.
As I have indicated in the past, my intention as an administrator for this wiki is to keep it on the right track and to maintain its dignity (if you will). I apologise to those of you who have come to me in the past about changing certain elements of the wiki only to have me (I hope politely) decline. So much of the internet today is plagued by those who spread excessi…