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[Grief.exe]

Optimizations, stuttering fixes, functioning 60Hz mode in 98.3% of gameplay, MSAA, AF, additional shadows, new launcher, and more.

Here's a guest blog post he penned discussing what was changed

http://xseedgames.tumblr.com/post/156725636690/little-kings-story-pc-relaunch-guest-blog

To celebrate the patch, Xseed has applied a 40% discount to the Steam and Humble stores. Enjoy!

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

If it's actually in tip-top shape now, I'll gladly buy it. Wanted to get the game, but held off due to the state of the port.

 

[TheTrain]

That's fascinating, Durante rulez

 

[LucidMomentum]

Durante is my patron saint.

Such a credit to gaming in general.

 

[Asd202]

Wow good guy Durante.

 

[Shizuka]

It's a shame that despite being a great game and a classic, it bombed on Steam.

 

[black070]

I actually completed this on the Vita, great game.

 

[Lashley]

The mans a legend

 

[Soren01]

Wow, fantastic

 

[Chesskid1]

did he do it for free? just wondering

 

[Camwi]

His tag is going to get out of control.

 

[Eolz]

So it's good getting now?
Skipped it due to all the issues before...

 

[Mifec]

Durante is god.


I love PC gaming.

 

[ramoisdead]

Man that's awesome of Ken Barry of XSEED to reach out to Durante to see if they can fix a port like Little King's Story to make it better.

More publishers should extend an olive branch to folks like Durante and other modders who only want what's best for games on the PC platform.

 

[SpacePirate Ridley]

Read the article. What an amazing work was done by Durante here. Congrats to him!

 

[HyperZone<3]

Friggin awesome.

I think XSEED just made a sale off of me.

 

[Brazil]

Cool stuff! Good on Durante, and good on XSEED for reaching out to the right guy.

 

[Permanently A]

Arkane needs to tag him in for Dishonored 2's pc port

 

[-shadow-]

Oh, so that's why the games on sale on Steam right now!

 

[Dictator93]

haha. That is FANTASTIC.

GJ Durante ^_^

 

[SpiceMelange]

did he do it for free? just wondering

Dude doing that kind of work is a big time commitment and requires skilled work. How are you even wondering that he was paid or not lol?

 

[KHlover]

Has Durante ever thought about opening a studio like Bluepoint, Tantalus or Hexadrive? He obviously has the talent and the qualification for it.

 

[Nzyme32]

Fantastic. I decided not to buy the game specifically because of these issues. A sale earned. Cheers Durante.

 

[morpix]

That's a really great LinkedIn update for Durante. Hopefully more devs use him for fixing broken ports.

 

[Stitch]

Woah, I was going through my wishlist today and thought it was a shame how mediocre the port turned out and now Durante shows up and fixed the port.

That was a good read. Even if I didn't understand every word

 

[Sword Of Doom]

Durant will have the longest tag in gaf history

 

[Durante]

did he do it for free? just wondering

No.

Also, XSEED are pretty awesome.

And sadly, the game still isn't quite perfect at 60 Fps. Read the blog for details.

 

[Nabs]

Awesome. I'm so happy a great game can be enjoyed the right way.

 

[PandaPedinte]

Just finished reading it and while I don't understand much of what Durante explained I really appreciate what he's been doing fixing these games. Also it was nice of the XSEED reaching him to fix the port.

 

[InfiniteNine]

It's a shame that despite being a great game and a classic, it bombed on Steam.

Well I'm sure port quality had something to do with that. I dropped off buying it after I heard about it but I'll pick it up in the future now.

 

[xzeldax3]

No.

Also, XSEED are pretty awesome.

And sadly, the game still isn't quite perfect at 60 Fps. Read the blog for details.

Thank you for all the amazing things you've done for PC gaming.

 

[Baliis]

Cool off Xseed to reach out to him, would love to see other publishers do similar

 

[Durante]

That's a really great LinkedIn update for Durante. Hopefully more devs use him for fixing broken ports.

I don't have a LinkedIn account

Ken from XSEED contacted me directly.

 

[randomkid]

the other bit of news the OP ought to mention from the link is the following:

"To celebrate this relaunch of Little King’s Story, we are running a week-long 40% off sale on Steam and The Humble Store starting right now. Though these enhancements only apply to the Steam build at the moment, we plan on applying them to our DRM-free and GOG Galaxy builds soon, so just hang tight for a little while longer and those builds will be updated too."

 

[Nyoro SF]

Definitely will pick this up very soon in the next few days. Thanks a bunch Durante!

Also the article on tumblr was a great read. Hopefully there wasn't too much spaghetti code.

 

[Grief.exe]

That's a really great LinkedIn update for Durante. Hopefully more devs use him for fixing broken ports.

Tecmo got in contact with him on Twitter, so we will see if they improve.

No.

Also, XSEED are pretty awesome.

And sadly, the game still isn't quite perfect at 60 Fps. Read the blog for details.

Functioning correctly for 98.3% of the time is pretty close.

the other bit of news the OP ought to mention from the link is the following:

"To celebrate this relaunch of Little King’s Story, we are running a week-long 40% off sale on Steam and The Humble Store starting right now. Though these enhancements only apply to the Steam build at the moment, we plan on applying them to our DRM-free and GOG Galaxy builds soon, so just hang tight for a little while longer and those builds will be updated too."

Excellent point!

 

[Turrican3]

Durant will have the longest tag in gaf history

Lol so true.

And absolutely deserved, of course. Wish I was as talented as him as a programmer. Props to him.

 

[Ricerocket]

I liked this game when I played it back on the Wii a lot and held back on buying the recent one because it was plagued with issues. This will get me to buy it.

$15 on Steam atm.

 

[blu]

Good job, Durante! LKS is a true gem that needs to be played by more people.

 

[Chesskid1]

Dude doing that kind of work is a big time commitment and requires skilled work. How are you even wondering that he was paid or not lol?

helping implies (to me at least) it's something you do voluntarily so i was confused, they hired durante.

but yeah good on xseed for finding a way to fix this port!

 

[Ricky Ricardo]

haha. That is FANTASTIC.

GJ Durante ^_^

Off-topic, but I must be going crazy. Wasn't your face your avatar just a few hours ago? I was wondering where you went then noticed your new avi and understood, and now it's back to the old one.

 

[sixteen-bit]

thx Durante

 

[Easy_D]

I actually completed this on the Vita, great game.

Even better off the Vita. The original version is different enough to warrant a second playthrough

 

[eefara]

What a cool little story. Good on XSeed for for doing whatever they needed to get the port up to standards.

 

[Deleted member 465307]

I was wondering just the other day how this game turned out after the initial footage/screenshots were so unflattering. Is it now the definitive edition?

Also, nice work, Durante! I appreciate you helping to polish and preserve this wonderfully unique game.

 

[Raptor]

No full 60fps no joy.

Spoiler

Great job man!!

 

[QFNS]

Durante doing the Lord(or insert other deity as appropriate)'s work as always.

Great work!

 

[vvise]

that was a a good read.

 

[Durante]

Good job, Durante! LKS is a true gem that needs to be played by more people.

It's also pretty amazing how they wrote a bespoke engine, memory manager, scripting system and VM for the original Wii game. Impressive on the one hand, infuriating on the other
And all of it only commented in Japanese and compiling correctly in SHIFT-JIS of course!

 

[BronsonLee]

HE'S BECOMING THE VILLAIN
PUSH HIM OFF THE ROOF