Posted on: November 21, 2022

MotherKojiro

Gry: 481 Opinie: 196

Great, but WAY Too Long

I really wanted to love this one, but I can really only like it. It's a great island adventure with tons of exploration, and a base of operations filled with people I really grew to care about, especially the titular Dana, who is warm and caring and just adorably weird. The action was excellent (once you figure out how to map the buttons in a sane way) with perfect guarding/dodging to spice things up, and skills no longer take an eternity to master. The plot is balls-to-the-wall crazy, but I think that fits a series that's always been less about story and more about running around, exploding strange monsters with a sword while electric guitars squeal in the background. Speaking of which, this is one of the best soundtracks the series has had in a long time; it does a better job of treading the line of hard rock and coke-fueled J-rock from the most intense anime ever. Unfortunately, it's at least 40 hours longer than it needs to be. You have constant raids on your village, and they are ALWAYS right in the middle of a dungeon; they're scripted, so ANY other time could've been chosen for them to happen. They're a bit like tower defense, but you actually control your characters, and they aren't all that bad, but they're really unnecessary and badly placed. On top of that, you have hunts, which are similar, and night missions, where you get thrown into a different version of an existing dungeon, but with half a dozen miniboss-level baddies chasing you at any given time. The game has some pretty bad pacing issues in the second half, too; I was almost always under the recommended level, sometimes significantly, and I'm not one to run away from fights. At the very least, I didn't have to do absolutely everything to get the best ending, even if that ending did make me want to punch something. Overall, I'm glad to have experienced this game, but it could REALLY use an editor grind down the excess content and meandering plot.

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Posted on: April 18, 2018

iceflamephoenix

Gry: 300 Opinie: 1

Terrible port of an excellent game.

AVOID! (for now) As has been widely reported on video gaming press, the state of this PC port is abominable. First off, the game runs at a fixed internal resolution, meaning everyone is currently "running" this at 4K, regardless of your game settings, so the minimum system requirements should be taken with an ocean of salt. Barebones graphics options. FXAA introduces blur everywhere, but still leaves aliasing everywhere as well. Font drawing issues. Major gamepad control issues. Reviews elsewhere have called this is a "Dark Souls 1 PC tier port". Visual flickering in multiple areas of the game. Choppy audio everywhere. Reviews on Steam have reported that fixed introduced in the beta test have largely been reversed, for no apparent reason. NIS America have already published a roadmap for major fixes, so wait until this game has received a string of significant updates before even considering a purchase. (Or Durante fixes this unofficially by magic.)

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Posted on: April 24, 2018

Shifter1602

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Gry: 95 Opinie: 1

Awesome game, Bad port

My first Ys game. Previously played Kiseki series. The game is awsome. Despite a loft of issues with optimization, my laptop with NVidia GT750M let me usually play without promblems. Game - 5; Port -3 -> Overall - 4.

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Posted on: April 19, 2018

groze

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Gry: 1456 Opinie: 39

Brilliant game, terrible port

If you enjoy Nihon Falcom's games, especially their groundbreaking action-RPG Ys series, know that Ys VIII is one of the best games they've ever made. Engrossing story, lovely art direction, fluid fast-paced "easy to play, difficult to master" gameplay, superb soundtrack. Having said that, as of right now, this PC port by Nippon Ichi Software America (NISA) is one of the worst ever made -- think Dark Souls level of PC porting. Resolution is internally locked at 1800p (even though you can set it to two other resolutions by using command lines and/or hex editing the game's exe file), there are sound bugs, a minimap glitch, 8-direction control instead of full 360º freeflow, the game keeps crashing to desktop for no discernible reason, there is some extreme flickering on at least two locations (epilepsy warning, by the way, since NISA still hasn't put up a warning of their own before they fix this), and a few other people keep coming across different bugs, crashes and overall issues with the game. Graphical options are as barebone as they get, and mostly for show -- turning them all on or off doesn't seem to have any major impact on how the game looks and, especially, how taxing it becomes on your machine. Some people have been getting lucky with the game (perks of playing games on PC, what might be broken for some may work for others). If you own a pretty beefy PC and if you're feeling lucky, by all means, get this game, because it really is amazing. Just be wary of the broken package it comes in. Also: unlike XSEED, who got us used to top notch Ys translations, NISA's EN localization is pretty mediocre (the first version was even worse, but thanks to the PC delays we only got the revised one), so be aware the translation is not that great, either. In short: absolutely great game that most PC players can't enjoy due to an appalling port by NISA. It would get one star from me for the port alone, but the game is so good that I have to at least acknowledge that.

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Posted on: April 17, 2018

Cubiecal

Gry: 42 Opinie: 1

Very poor PC Port

Do not buy in this current stage - the first game I have to send a refund request for a game of GoG. The game in itself is good on all accounts by Nihon Falcom - however this is not a good port by NiSA. You can also check out Steam reviewers for the range of issues many players had with this title at its current state. Personally I had steady 60 fps, but chapter 2 onwards I began to have missing / low res texture popups and seizure-inducing lighting glitch in a very large area which is necessary for the main quest. Which I could not justify putting up with for a full price game. Maybe one day I'll purchase Y'SVIII again when it's fixed - but not in this current state. Was really looking forward to this title but but will be very wary of NiSA's future releases.

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