Comments on: Neverland Card Battles: Shuffling Through Loading Times

By: JeremyR

JeremyR — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:17:20 +0000

What irks me, is even if they are bad programmers and couldn’t optimize the loading from the disc, they could have offered an option media install to the memory stick (like a lot of recent games in Japan have been doing). I can’t imagine that would have been much effort and is almost as good as running completely from the memory stick.

By: Hello Hello

Hello Hello — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:29:30 +0000

I agree with you 100%, Lousie. Idea Factory should get its act together and learn how to competently program PSP games. I was just pointing out that the cause isn’t completely lost. There are options out there.

By: Louise

Louise — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:04:09 +0000

@Hello Hello – You’re right, their games aren’t that bad without the loading times for fans of the genre. But I don’t think that players should have to alter the firmware of their PSP just so they can enjoy the game better.

By: Hello Hello

Hello Hello — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:48:46 +0000

Idea Factory games are not bad games. They just suffer from sloppy programming. If you’re willing to go the Custom Firmware route, you can overclock your PSP and the loading times become a non-issue. I had a lot more fun with Spectral Souls than I did with Final Fantasy Tactics, to be quite honest. I’m looking forward to giving this game a try too.

By: JeremyR

JeremyR — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:50:14 +0000

It’s an idea factory game. Spectral Souls was bad. Generation of Chaos was bad too – it couldn’t even get through simple lines of text without loading.

By: Louise

Louise — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:22:34 +0000

@SomeDude – I’m playing on the 2000. The loading mainly comes from the game reading from disc after EVERY SINGLE ACTION you take. Very frustrating.

By: SomeDude

SomeDude — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:21:47 +0000

This sounds like exactly the same problems Idea Factory had with Spectral Souls. It would have been a decent game if not for the loading times on literally every battle effect in the game.

Judging by the screenshots, it seems like the font is warped in this game like is was in both Spectral Souls and Generation of Chaos, and that this localization was done pretty cheaply. (”Grace of Treasured Sword”?)

One more question for Louise, are you playing this on a PSP-2000 or 1000? If the loading time are still bad on the 2000, then Idea Factory needs to go back to the assembly line with these PSP games.

By: Louise

Louise — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:10:41 +0000

@shion – My thoughts exactly. I so wanted to like this game but the loading times were making me cry.

@jeffx – It’s not even like the graphics in this game is that advanced! I don’t understand why it takes so long to load a sprite!

By: jeffx

jeffx — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:21:56 +0000

You’d think that in this day and age (and given the “horsepower” of these graphics) long loading times would be a thing of the past.

By: shion16

shion16 — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:41:18 +0000

its not a bad game
but the loading times……!!!!!!!!