Harvestella PC Port Report — I am glad it isn’t one other Star Ocean, at the very least

When Star Ocean: The Divine Drive 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 dangerous instances have been up to now. This made me anxious for Harvestella. However this port is fortunately so much higher, even when it has principally zero choices. The one different platform the sport’s releasing on is Swap, so I’m not truly all that shocked by this, however it’s fairly wild, contemplating. Or it will be if the sport wouldn’t clearly run fantastic 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 far nicer than Star Ocean: The Divine Drive‘s 60. However whereas that sport’s environments at the very least appeared considerably trendy, this one was clearly made on a a lot, a lot smaller finances. But it surely runs very properly. I received 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 fantastic. The sport doesn’t even grow to be 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! When you’re enjoying on a controller, nonetheless, there doesn’t appear to be a approach to rebind these controls. After 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 in the event you’re utilizing an Xbox controller.) Additionally, you may’t use the mouse to work together with menus, though you can use it to manage the digicam. Sure, I’m applauding one other normal 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 things else turns into problematic. Other than that, these are all normal options. The next is decidedly much less than normal 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 pretty first rate regardless of this. Bushes are changed with impostors at a sure distance and also you’ll see complete items of element vanish, however it’s not as noticeable as you’d count on from one thing that’s additionally a Swap sport.

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 at the very least the sport runs properly, seems fantastic, and doesn’t change to windowed once I alt-tab, so it’s higher than Star Ocean: The Divine Drive by a mile. You don’t must spend 40 minutes compiling shaders earlier than you boot the sport for the primary time both, which is a load off.