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 instances have been prior to now. This made me frightened 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 Swap, so I’m not truly all that stunned by this, but it surely’s fairly wild, contemplating. Or it might be if the sport wouldn’t clearly run fantastic on the Vita.
As for the excellent news, Harvestella on PC helps 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 a minimum of regarded considerably trendy, this one was clearly made on a a lot, a lot smaller price range. Nevertheless it runs very effectively. I received a fairly fixed 120 fps on an RTX 3090. That is precisely what you’d count on, but it surely’s good all the identical. I didn’t discover any hitches or stutters. It’s all fantastic. The sport doesn’t even turn out to be windowed whenever you alt-tab. That’s not a lot of an accomplishment, is it? Let’s try these menus.
The Harvestella Port Report continues
You may rebind the keyboard controls! Huzzah! In case you’re taking part in on a controller, nevertheless, there doesn’t appear to be a solution 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 an alternative of A should 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 customary function, I’m conscious.
You may fortunately swap the verify and cancel buttons, so no doing issues backward till it turns into second nature and every part else turns into problematic. Other than that, these are all customary options. The next is decidedly much less than customary for a PC port.
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 seems to be pretty first rate regardless of this. Timber are changed with impostors at a sure distance and also you’ll see complete items of element vanish, but it surely’s not as noticeable as you’d count on from one thing that’s additionally a Swap recreation.
Report: does Harvestella have a good PC port? Not likely. You may’t rebind controller buttons, there’s no utilizing your mouse for menus, and there aren’t any graphics choices by any means. However a minimum of the sport runs effectively, seems to be fantastic, 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.