Available since 2020 on Xbox One, PS4 and PC, XIII Remake will soon be released on Nintendo Switch. This is indeed what Microids announces through an official press release, specifying that the Kyoto hybrid console will host the game on September 13th. For the record, this version was to arrive at the same time as the others before, finally, being postponed. It was the French studio Tower Five (Lornsword: Winter Chronicle) who took care of the porting, but not only.
"In charge of monitoring the game for over a year, including significant improvements and fixes that will be made available to players for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC versions, the studio is also preparing for the arrival of multiplayer content. ", we are told. All of these tweaks will be contained in a patch that will also roll out on September 13. “The entire game has been reworked by the studio, from the artistic direction to the AI through numerous technical corrections”, is it also underlined. It is specified that up to 13 players can compete in multiplayer.
"We are aware that the initial release of XIII Remake on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC did not reach the standards desired by players, recognizes Stéphane Longeard, CEO of Microids. More than a year ago, we took the decision to entrust the resumption of production to the Roche studio Tower Five which has already worked with us on several occasions, in particular by successfully porting the game Agatha Christie – The ABC Murders on Nintendo Switch. We really wanted to correct the game in depth and thus offering owners of XIII Remake a free update worthy of the original game.These many improvements have been integrated directly into the Nintendo Switch version and the addition of the multiplayer mode on all versions completes the development of the game. Can't wait for players around the world to be able to get their hands on this substantial update, at the end of the summer, in order to (re)discover the adventures of the famous Agent XIII."
We are curious to see the result.