Is it essential to upgrade to KK Sunshine? Or would you rather stay with KK Party a while longer?

[Koopanique]

Hello,

I'm considering upgrading to KK Sunshine, but when I see the pictures, I do not have a clear feeling that there's been much improvements regarding the graphics and animations.

What do you think of the situation? Is it worth it to upgrade?

Thank you

[OOM-911]

It's not necessary. for the most part, it's just different location with a few more positions and events to do. Most of the differences come from the game play. Things like the conversation system and such. Also to note unlike this one you can't use certain positions on some maps during certain times of the day.

Overall I get the feeling that the engine is probably better. Aka why the major mods are starting to head over there, but quite a few need a separate version so there must be some programming changes. I also think the lighting and shadow system is a bit different. BUT like before it's based on where the camera is and not a source from the stage itself.

So in short it's basically a new more advanced version of this but it's not to much of a big deal... Also note the cards from it are NOT backwards compatible. and sometimes converting old cards to it can result in some weird things... so editing might be needed or have to be redone entirely in some cases.

[Jehuty]

Nobody stops you from using both.

Sunshine has significanly more animations, new gameplay loop and new locations.

So it'll surely be a breath of fresh air.

[Koopanique]

Ok... that's a lot of good info. Thank you both!

[Tenfold Hamspread]

Originally posted by OOM-911:

It's not necessary. for the most part, it's just different location with a few more positions and events to do. Most of the differences come from the game play. Things like the conversation system and such. Also to note unlike this one you can't use certain positions on some maps during certain times of the day.

Overall I get the feeling that the engine is probably better. Aka why the major mods are starting to head over there, but quite a few need a separate version so there must be some programming changes. I also think the lighting and shadow system is a bit different. BUT like before it's based on where the camera is and not a source from the stage itself.

So in short it's basically a new more advanced version of this but it's not to much of a big deal... Also note the cards from it are NOT backwards compatible. and sometimes converting old cards to it can result in some weird things... so editing might be needed or have to be redone entirely in some cases.

Ok wow this post is old but when you say "Also note the cards from it are NOT backwards compatible" do you mean Koikatsu Sunshine to Koikatsu Party, or the reverse (Aka Party to Sunshine)

[Jehuty]

You can use cards from Koikatsu in Koikatsu sunshine, but not vice versa.

[Mont]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.