Strania - The Stella Machine - EX [Switch 2025]

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First time there's been a home port of an EXA arcade game, pretty interesting & exciting! Releases on 23 January, digital only for now.

https://x.com/grevUST/status/1876827370210173259

All the gameplay changes from the EXA game will be in there, and that's the important thing. According to Shou at EXA, EXA's English localization, videos, title screen art, and added voices cannot be included for contractual reasons, but that's not a big deal as it's mostly fluff. I don't expect this port to achieve the EXA version's 2 frames of input lag due to the Switch being incapable of doing this in any game (AFAIK), but if the Switch version can achieve 3-4 frames of lag, it'll be acceptable.

I still have the original version on my Xbox 360, and it even works on my Xbox Series X!

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I finally picked this up the other day and gave it a whirl. Looks great on the Switch in docked mode and plays really well too. Very responsive controls, feels just like the original game on the X360 in that regard, so it must be around 3-4 frames of input lag. And hey, it even has online leaderboards!  Great overall package for $15 USD.

Unfortunately it does not work on the Switch 2. I tried booting it up there and was greeted with an infinite black screen. Then, when I tried to close the game I got an error. Nintendo is aware of this as you cannot even buy the game through the Switch 2 eshop due to this incompatibility. Hopefully they will fix this, but until then, this is yet another reason to hold on to your original Switch.