PYS3 Gripes

Well, it had to be made sometime. I'm still loving the game, but here are the downfalls of a dev team spreading themselves out too thin. In the latest official site update, they admitted that the same team worked on both the PS2 and 360 versions. I'd like to see them stop working on the 360 version next year, because there are some bugs and things that surprised me.

-I don't know if it's a bug or not, but it's really awkward. Sometimes, on a very high wind day, you can hit a homerun with a weak pop fly. I'm positive that this is a bug, because I felt like Matt Franco was going to pop up to second with the way I connected with the bat, but instead it was a 104 meter homer. Luckily, I don't see this often at all. I've yet to do it again.

-Another glitch is that the polygons sometimes get messed up when showing the dugout between innings. I saw some neon green behind Shunsuke's ears after my second game. This is definitely a sign of polygons messing up. Saw it later in the same dugout with a coach congratulating a player.

-As hard as Konami worked, they definitely stretched themselves thin with working on both PYS3 versions, Pawapuro Portable, Pawamajor, Pawapuro 13, etc. This is fairly obvious when you see that the majority of batters with new batting stances have their same intro animation when they step into the box. This means Nishi will move his bat around like his old batting stance, but it'll awkwardly go to his new one in which it's TOTALLY different when the at bat begins.

-Defensive arm strength is still very unrealistic. Karim Garcia doesn't throw a no bound strike to home plate from right field every time.

I'll try to think of more as time passes.