PC gamers have been getting their fingers on the verifiable cringefest Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin over the previous few days, and sadly it seems to be one other cursed Sq. Enix port.
Gamers have been taking to the sport’s subreddit to voice the quite a few points which might be plaguing the PC port. The largest subject proper now’s the extraordinary slowdown that appears to be occurring when performing Soul Bursts, a theatrical ending transfer that crystalises the enemy earlier than shattering them. It places your complete recreation into slow-motion, which feels fairly jarring whenever you’re attempting to keep up movement in fight.
The difficulty seems to be even worse if you happen to try to run the sport at 120 fps, as I used to be having points even when attempting to run round. It was like Jack was preventing chaos in a sea of invisible mud. Except he is spinning, after which he will get a small case of the zoomies. Knocking the framerate all the way down to 60 fps alleviates the difficulty considerably, however Soul Bursts nonetheless trigger main disruption to the sport’s velocity.
Complaints have additionally been made round Stranger of Paradise’s visuals. The sport appears to flit between trying acceptable and searching such as you’re taking part in one thing from 2009. One Reddit publish known as the port “horrendous,” saying “the sport is ugly as hell with terrible render distance, tons of pop-in, jagged visuals, aliasing in all places, and actually blurry and washed out picture.” Another complained concerning the recreation trying pixelated, whereas points across the recreation’s brightness are additionally being identified. One in all my main points with the game’s first demo was that it was a little bit too “The Lengthy Evening” from Sport of Thrones and sadly, it seems to be like somebody at Sq. Enix forgot to crank the brightness up as soon as once more.
One Reddit post from a person who claims to be a VFX artist goes into a little bit extra element across the efficiency points. It recommends holding the sport capped to 60 fps for now, in addition to tinkering with the 3D rendering decision scaling and display area reflections in graphics settings. They’re the 2 settings that look like the most important offender round slowdown proper now. It will not negate the difficulty fully however ought to do a bit to make the sport extra playable.
It is a disgrace that the sport is having a tough time operating on PC, particularly contemplating its modest system requirements. I am operating the entire thing on a fairly respectable setup and I am nonetheless experiencing an honest quantity of points. I am nonetheless undecided in the event that they’re value persisting with within the pursuit of Chaos killing. Sq. Enix is but to acknowledge the PC port points. If video games like Nier Automata and the Final Fantasy 7 Remake are something to go by, it is unlikely we’ll hear something for some time.
