How good is this port?

[Yama]

Hey all, I've got an above average PC, but I'm just asking this question because a lot of Playstation ported games to PC that I've bought in the past are done horribly and run like garbage and have absolutely no sensible keyboard support. So I stopped buying them. How does this port fare? Cause I'm really interested in finally being able to play this game cause I've never owned a Playstation or know if it could've been emulated properly (and even if it could've I don't want to be a pirate, especially when they're offering it as such a low price on Steam now).

Thanks!

[Law Abiding Engineer]

From what ive played, it feels good. Only issues Ive had are the japanese voices are a bit muffled, probably due to compressing, and the game can freeze and crash quite a bit. aside from that, it looks pretty good and plays well.

[Yama]

Alright! That's good to know. The muffled voices are nothing a community patch/mod wont fix in the future, and we'll see if I get those freezes and crashes all too often or at all. If I do, hopefully it's nothing an update or community mod won't fix either.

[Scorpix]

I have played 44h. No problems at all.

[John Hadley]

The port is quite a lot better than most feature wise. You can actually use your mouse to select in menus and such, not just the mouse buttons in place of game pad buttons.

There are some technical issues though that I'm sure are going to need to be patched before this port works smoothly for everyone. In particular a lot of machines closer to the minimum spec have really bad stutter and skipping during the cutscenes. I think most machines that are sufficiently above the minimum specs do not have that problem. Some people, but again not all, experience the game becoming unresponsive at any time during play and it never recovers so the game has to be shut down with the task manager and restarted.

For the people that it works right, the game is nice and smooth aside from a slight pause before all-out attacks that affects most people but doesn't crash the game or make it unplayable. For people with stuttering cutscenes there are some third party workarounds with reduced quality video pack. However, if the game freezes up frequently in play for you it is very annoying to try to play a dungeon level over and over.

[Cat Daddy]

Its an ok port but it has over heating issues due to either denuvo working in the background or poor coding.

Ive a GTX970 and 11 fans inside my PC. I play most modern games and my gpu temp rarely goes above 60oC. I play this game and its on 70oC most of the time.

On idle right now my CPU is like 34 whilst my GPU is only around 30. Playing this 8 year old vita game makes it jump upto 60-70 almost constantly.

Its not a bad port but it certainly needs some work doing to it to improve its performance.

[Ambry]

Originally posted by Cat Daddy:

Ive a GTX970 and 11 fans inside my PC. I play most modern games and my gpu temp rarely goes above 60oC. I play this game and its on 70oC most of the time.

You most likely haven't lowered the resolution scaling (which is set to 200% by default) nor capped the framerate.

Set the scaling to 100% and cap the framerate to 60fps. You don't need anything above that for such low-fidelity graphics.


Now to answer OP, like they others I'd say the port is above average, with some issues that do need to be addressed (a few crashes, mostly).

[Poobah Gorg]

I've had it running for a few days. It hasn't crashed at all on my PC. Nor has it lagged or performed badly in any way (gameplay or cut scenes). I've got a home-built i5-6500 running Win 10 Home 64 bit with Nvidia GX1660 and 16GB RAM.

[Durandus]

Definitely worth the $20, if you arent sure, wait for a sale or something. I would have been willing to drop 60 on it.

[Skutes]

Its a good port. Good settings and controls, no crashes and no problems of any type in 50ish hours.

[tracksone]

Runs good, except the cut scenes stutter all over the place. I read that this is a widespread thing, ive seen some in the forum try to deny that its an issue, but a large number of people report it.. i assume they will release an update eventually, i hope.

[Xerain]

It's OK but just OK. Japanese games tend to be bad ports on the whole. So it's definitely better than some ports. But it's generally not as good as most people who are asking about port quality would want it to be.

You want to make sure you can run it at twice your refresh rate, otherwise the motion blur gets all screwy.

[CHAO$$$]

You cant control the camera via mouse is my only gripe - and its a fairly big one in my opinion.

Everything else is spot on.