When Star Ocean: The Divine Pressure launched the opposite week, a few of us had been a bit shocked. Sq. Enix had been doing higher with its PC ports within the wake of NieR: Automata and we’d hoped the dangerous occasions had been prior to now. This made me nervous for Harvestella. However this port is fortunately loads higher, even when it has mainly zero choices. The one different platform the sport’s releasing on is Change, so I’m not truly all that stunned by this, however it’s fairly wild, contemplating. Or it will be if the sport wouldn’t clearly run wonderful on the Vita.
As for the excellent news, Harvestella on PC permits you to crank the fps up all the best way to 120, which is far nicer than Star Ocean: The Divine Pressure‘s 60. However whereas that sport’s environments not less than seemed considerably fashionable, this one was clearly made on a a lot, a lot smaller funds. However it runs very nicely. I bought a reasonably fixed 120 fps on an RTX 3090. That is precisely what you’d count on, however it’s good all the identical. I didn’t discover any hitches or stutters. It’s all wonderful. The sport doesn’t even change into windowed if you alt-tab. That’s not a lot of an accomplishment, is it? Let’s take a look at these menus.
The Harvestella Port Report continues
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You’ll be able to rebind the keyboard controls! Huzzah! If you happen to’re taking part in on a controller, nonetheless, there doesn’t appear to be a approach to rebind these controls. Once I first booted Harvestella, I used to be stunned to see that it makes use of the Japanese affirmation button scheme by default (B as a substitute of A in the event you’re utilizing an Xbox controller.) Additionally, you’ll be able to’t use the mouse to work together with menus, though you can use it to regulate the digicam. Sure, I’m applauding one other commonplace characteristic, I’m conscious.
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You’ll be able to fortunately swap the affirm and cancel buttons, so no doing issues backward till it turns into second nature and all the pieces else turns into problematic. Except for that, these are all commonplace options. The next is decidedly much less than commonplace for a PC port.
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As I stated, fps goes as much as 120. I’ve confirmed that it makes use of precise unique fullscreen, alongside borderless windowed. Surprisingly, there are zero graphics options right here. No textures, draw distance, shadows. Nothing. Weirdly, the sport appears pretty first rate regardless of this. Bushes are changed with impostors at a sure distance and also you’ll see whole items of element vanish, however it’s not as noticeable as you’d count on from one thing that’s additionally a Change sport.
Report: does Harvestella have a good PC port? Probably not. You’ll be able to’t rebind controller buttons, there’s no utilizing your mouse for menus, and there aren’t any graphics choices in anyway. However not less than the sport runs nicely, appears wonderful, and doesn’t change to windowed after I alt-tab, so it’s higher than Star Ocean: The Divine Pressure by a mile. You don’t have to spend 40 minutes compiling shaders earlier than you boot the sport for the primary time both, which is a load off.
