If it wasn’t evident enough by recent reports and the fact that Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz is receiving a HD remaster, SEGA are looking to utilise some of their long-forgotten series.
The current plan is to release a slew of remasters to test the waters for public interest.
The company are looking for the upcoming Monkey Ball to at least sell 300,000 units across all platforms in order for a completely new entry to receive the green light, this should also apply for any upcoming remasters of other series’ games in one way or another.
The next remaster set for release is indeed one of the 2007 Wii title, NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams, a sequel to the 1996 Saturn classic.
So far, I’ve learned of the following information when it comes to this remaster:
>It will be exclusive to the Switch eShop and Steam. No physical release or ports to other platforms are planned.
>Framerate will be highly improved from the Wii original’s 30 FPS, this one will instead be capped at 60 FPS, cutscenes included.
>All multiplayer and online features will return, along with new online leaderboards.
>Motion control with a single Joy-Con will be available, as well as more standard controller options which include both Joy-Cons together and the Pro Controller.
>Should you run out of time during a boss, you will not need to replay the previous section like in the original, the player will instead just be taken back to the beginning of the boss fight.
>The game has been upscaled to 1080p docked and 720p handheld.
>Reaction time after jumping in platforming sections is much quicker now.
>Load times are a lot faster.
>Currently planned to release on Dec. 13 this year, coinciding with the original JP release of the Wii version.
All information in this post, including the image attached was provided by a close associate.
This is what I have learned from him so far, but a follow-up thread will be created, should I learn anything new.
