Resident Evil Revelations 2 Vita Getting Panned

So, Resident Evil Revelations 2 on Vita is now out, and as many suspected, it's a throwaway, low quality port. Its graphics and performance have taken a dramatic stutter, and in many places, it is looking worse than Resident Evil Revelations on the Nintendo 3DS.

Here are some impressions:

Played up through the prison with Claire, so about forty minutes worth. Should be said that I've only played the PS4 version before, but some impressions.

-Textures are a very muddy now, some worse than others. Blood textures and decals look really bright now.

-Character models look pretty good, think a bit more effort was put into preserving these over the environment.

-Lighting has took a big hit, very flat and much brighter in general now. Kind of makes the item flashes for Moira harder to see imo.

-Framerate is all over the place, but it hasn't become unplayable for me (which I understand is fairly subjective), at a guess I'd say it was hovering around the mid 20's for the majority with some dips into the teens. The dips, so far, seem more to do with the environment you're in rather than enemy count.

-The sound is the area that seems to have taken the biggest hit, oddly enough. Sounds very dull and muffled, think it's been hit the hardest by a lot of compression which is disappointing.

-Control seems nice and responsive. Gyro aiming is in there, although I didn't try it. Seems like what was previously on R1/L1 and R3/L3 is now assigned to the touch screen, and thankfully they don't have icons for those on screen.

Some pictures:

A video:

A day may come, when Sony's third party relations team comes up with a product that isn't ultimately shit quality... but it is not this day.

Game honestly takes too much of a loss compared to consoles for me to pick it up here. Maybe a cheap sale, but this looks easily worse than the two Resident Evil games on 3DS, one of which I bought because some asshole said we'd co-op.

i've seen PS2 games that look better lol.

This game looks like utter dogshit on the Vita.....; and that's sad as hell because the vita is much, much, more capable than this.

Isn't this game episodic crap anyway?

Episodic doesn't mean crap, and as far as I know, RE:R2 is actually pretty decent.

Anyway, it's released on Vita in a complete form.

From my experience, the original game was already "throwaway, low quality" trash. Nobody is missing out. If anything, Capcom's incompetence just saved some people a lot of trouble.

Capcom didn't port this, Sony did

I want complete games not episodic digital content and free to play games. Also I recall this game having microtransactions. I don't support those shenanigans.

But I see now it at least got full versions. Can't say I thought the first one looked good, I think the last good RE game will be Re4.

Good Vita doesnt matter to me :D

Add to my growing list of disappointment... Where's Axiom Verge vita? And galakz vita? Now revelations is twice baked turd.... Sigh.

Galak-Z Vita was canceled.

I'm starting to think that Sony shouldn't handle porting games from 3rd parties to their systems. You'd think that since they know the hardware in and out that they could make a port fly. But this and USF4 kinda proved me wrong.

This post has nothing to do with it getting panned. You literally just posted a post from neogaf. If someone else had done this about a 3ds game, you'd be crying about it.

USF4 was thankfully ultimately fixed which makes sense, since it's a game on the PS4. I highly doubt they will have any more shits to give about this one, since they really don't seem to care much for Vita. Remember Borderlands 2?

@charizard1605: Yeah, but Sony didn't fix it by themselves. Capcom and the SF4 team had to go over there and drag Sony's butt out of the fire. Even Ono pointed the finger at them saying that Capcom had nothing to do with it. I bet that if it wasn't for the outrage and the fact that they had to cancel the PS4 version for Evo.... Sony probably would have left it as is.

Still pretty salty about no Nintendo port.

Then again I don't think I missed anything.

@bunchanumbers: That's because Sony themselves didn't port it.

Not surprised, the game was built for gen 7/8 systems, & was ported down to the vita. Unlike Revelations for 3ds, which was carefully built to the abilities of the system, & later released as an HD package for the consoles. Still, it looks much better than Mercenaries 3D, & on par with Revelations.

@ladyblue: finally someone with common sense.

I'll be picking this up tonight. Been waiting to play this in portable form. Id buy it just for the raid mode alone. That grinding combat is perfect for the vita.

Definitive version confirmed

There's a few of us left. :3

Already own it on PS4, but I can't pass on Resident Evil on the go. :P

Maybe I've gone daffy (inb4usualsuspectcomments), but I could've sworn I've seen some defend those horrendous graphics when a thread was made about them and numerous other BS with RER2.

@SolidGame_basic vindicated.

Eh , not like i have a Vita for HD grafx.

#SonyMasterRace

#VitaLives

lol

@charizard1605: Wikipedia says it was "produced" (as in financed) by Sony, the work of porting it actually went to a third party, Frima Studios, a Canadian developer of iPhone and iPad and web games... jeez, that explains a lot I guess.

A quite half hearted port to the PSvita. I guess since the PSvita is now a legacy platform in North America and Europe and other PAL regions. They decided that now one would notice a throw a way port for the PSvita. The PSvita has only managed 10.4 million sales worldwide and is now only active in Japan and Asia regions. Sony just has this hald assed port under the bus, hoped no one would notice.

Bundles up, Revelations 2 has a fair bit of content, including two bonus campaigns.

So much wrong in that collection of words.

Ah, I see. That makes sense now (since you would think Sony would know its own systems ._.)

It seems like they have some sort of budgetary constraints, otherwise why would they consistently pick such low rung developers to outsource these games to?

I just hope they get a bigger budget allocation going forward :/

The Third Party Production Team is not necessarily a financially profitable venture, but it exists to increase intangibles such as goodwill and brand equity- releasing low quality products can lead to a backfire.

Hopefully they don't muck up the Yakuza localization :p

Capcom is disgustingly lazy and are currently doing anything to rebuild profits. I want to see them make quality stuff again but I also don't want to support this shit at all.

Capcom was not behind this port.

Sony's third party relations team is a bunch of dog shit. I'm thankful for the work that they do to get games that would have otherwise not come if it weren't for them. But if they are going to hire third rate devs to port it (Iron Galaxy) or give them a crap budget and short time frame to release then they shouldn't bother.

These guys even screwed up street fighter... how is that possible? To think I waited on purchasing to get it on a handheld like the first game...I guess PS4 it is then.

Shame, was holding out for this version. Might just pick it up on PC now then but wanted it on the go really. :(

Another Vita masterpiece.

#Vitaforlife

Stupid me I got the game anyway despite the warnings. I love vita but this game is the biggest, foulest, disputing turd I have played this year by far. Even with the big day one patch it is barley playable. God knows what it was like before the patch.

Why didn't I get this on PS4? :(

@charizard1605 this game is insane and for how big it is and its on a handheld thats amazing stop acting like its should be ps4 quality its a vita and its great looking for the size and quality but spoiled brats forget that handhelds are not consoles and are you on something saying this game looks worse then RE revelations 1 on 3ds also this has way more stuff in game then that one and on the 3ds it is was a joke controlling it and on the new 3ds its just as bad as the cstick is garbage that nintendo could not even let us adjust its sensitivity so it does not work that good for games like RE . This game for $26 on vita is amazing for what you get and try getting a different job because you treat these systems like console counterparts i bet you act like the apple phone is a gaming machine. Know i remember why left gamespot and why you guys are shadows of what you were because you dont even sound like gamers you sound like paid off clowns.:

Oh but we missed you so much...with your 29 posts

lolvita

I cant believe someone would allow this to release on Vita in this way. Its downright disrespectful to Vita fans. Sony should be ashamed for publishing this.

Insane loading times before and after cutscene, they say its horrible even for Vita standards which already have bad load times.

No coop even though its a coop game.

Ugly cinematics. Poor graphics that effect the horror feel of the game, broken enemy animations.

Clunky Controls.

Game crashes.

No cross-buy.

Why Sony? Say it aint so. Vita finally gets a new port and they screw it up.

@Ghost120x: Don't worry about it, the console game wasn't good either. Just don't make the mistake of finding out yourself, gonna really suck buying a bad game twice.

That does look horrible.

@Heil68: Don't tell midnightshade, though, according to him, if you criticize anything Sony and especially Vita, you're a lemming.

I am a lemming though. Still have my swag from last gen.