Did you know that the Platinum Hits release of Blinx the Timesweeper was heavily revised to make the game far easier than its original version?Some enemies changed locations or were removed entirely from levels they originally appeared in the first release, several items in the shop cost significantly less, there's even altered item placement in levels, among a bunch of other changes.
Huh, I assumed this was fake, but it's real.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbjrryqKfj0https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PwvtOBDjIjy0TPmD0qp4oP7nkmSP6R-jMNkNeuQDUi4/edit?tab=t.0I know that revisions of a game sometimes fix bugs and do minor corrections, but I haven't heard of rebalancing the entire game like this before. Do both versions use the same save file? Wonder if swapping between them causes issues if they do.
>>12465802Pac-Man World 2 also nerfed the fuck out of everything in revisions. The non-casualized version the original American PS2 release.
>>12465802I would have thought that the Xbox Classics label (PAL equivalent to Platinum Hits), would also have these balance changes, but watching this, it seems like it doesn't.
>>12465802There's a handful of 6th gen games that did this. When this happens in Japan, it gets an updated title and it's clearly marketed for the new content or changes it includes (like Monster Hunter G), but for the US/PAL release they simply lumped them in with the other standard greatest/platinum hits (except for DMC3SE and Midnight Club 3 DUB Edition).Pic related, you'd have to check the back of the box to know Silent Hill 2 even had new stuff added to its re-release.
>>12465802>I haven't heard of rebalancing the entire game like this beforeThe original US and EU releases of Resident Evil 1 have auto-aim turned off and are generally harder (they went back to the original JP difficulty for Director's Cut including adding auto-aim back)RE2 and RE3 both have auto-aim in all versions, but the US/EU releases are also generally harder than the Japanese release
Very useful information for the two Blinx fans out there.
Ys 5 for the Super Famicom did the opposite with later releases being much more difficult than the original. Too bad the translation patch only works for the piss easy OG version.
>>12465738>Did you know that the Platinum Hits release of Blinx the Timesweeper was heavily revised to make the game far easier than its original version?I'd say it's quite likely that you were pretty much the only person to have known this, and also the only person who has played Blinx and then decided to play Blinx again -- let alone a different version
>>12465738so, which version is better balanced or fun?
>>12467543lol
So what you're saying isIf you had the platinum hits copy you didn't beat the game
>>12470226beating it would entail people even being aware of blinx.
>>12470231Anon, Blinx is the most important Xbox game since Halo!
>>12465738The final boss was pure bullshit
