When Star Ocean: The Divine Pressure launched the opposite week, a few of us have 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 unhealthy occasions have been prior to now. This made me apprehensive for Harvestella. However this port is fortunately lots higher, even when it has mainly zero choices. The one different platform the sport’s releasing on is Swap, so I’m not really all that shocked by this, but it surely’s fairly wild, contemplating. Or it could be if the sport wouldn’t clearly run nice on the Vita.
As for the excellent news, Harvestella on PC allows you to crank the fps up all the best way to 120, which is way nicer than Star Ocean: The Divine Pressure‘s 60. However whereas that recreation’s environments not less than appeared considerably trendy, this one was clearly made on a a lot, a lot smaller price range. However it runs very properly. I received a reasonably fixed 120 fps on an RTX 3090. That is precisely what you’d anticipate, but it surely’s good all the identical. I didn’t discover any hitches or stutters. It’s all nice. The sport doesn’t even turn into windowed once 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 enjoying on a controller, nevertheless, there doesn’t appear to be a technique to rebind these controls. Once I first booted Harvestella, I used to be shocked to see that it makes use of the Japanese affirmation button scheme by default (B as an alternative of A if you happen to’re utilizing an Xbox controller.) Additionally, you may’t use the mouse to work together with menus, though you can use it to regulate the digicam. Sure, I’m applauding one other customary 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 every little thing else turns into problematic. Except for that, these are all customary options. The next is decidedly much less than customary for a PC port.
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As I mentioned, fps goes as much as 120. I’ve confirmed that it makes use of precise unique fullscreen, alongside borderless windowed. Unusually, there are zero graphics options right here. No textures, draw distance, shadows. Nothing. Weirdly, the sport seems to be 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, but it surely’s not as noticeable as you’d anticipate from one thing that’s additionally a Swap recreation.
Report: does Harvestella have a good PC port? Not likely. 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 any way. However not less than the sport runs properly, seems to be nice, and doesn’t swap 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.
