Recent reviews by JudeN

This game is dogsht programmed. so many unnecessarily stupid ways to miss that where the game is supposed to set notes logically. This is like guitar hero but notes dont always correspond to their color or arrow in the same, red note can change what collumn its in and never is the red note in the same collumn every time. The annoyance of this game makes me wanna punch a baby.

I mostly will focus on reviewing the actual port of the game.

Final Fantasy XIII is probably my favorite game in the franchise. It has a unique playstyle not present in most other games in the franchise and it makes it look so futuristic and cool. The story is very touching and i love it. Some do not prefer the one-path gameplay where you only have one path to follow but I actually prefer this over always freely exploring because I can often get lost and dont know what I should do. Later in the game you can actually explore a bit but thats as far as I'd like it to go.

Now about the actual port:
This was a very good attempt at making a port to pc but there are some issues that i simply do not like. Firstly, the optimization of the game is very bad. I mean, they started creating the game in 2004-2005 and they released it in 2010. The graphics werent that great at that time as they are now. Assassin's Creed Unity has uses much better graphics than this game and still it performs better than Final Fantasy XIII on my PC. Also, as a PC gamer i know exactly what is needed for every game demanding game that is on a PC.
After experimenting alot, I found out that the HUD in the game is bottlenecking the fps. Everytime the HUD dissapears (when engaging a battle and when ending it) the framerate is immediately 60. During the actual battles, the framerate often drops to 20-25. Even though they added the option to change the resolution and Anti-Aliasing, this doesnt change the framerate almost at all. The Shadow Resolution seems also to be bottlenecking the fps and I am forced to set it to lowest. I also dont feel that we get enough options to change settings so we can play on a bit weaker systems. The fps numbers, when on a graph, look like a crazy rollercoaster.


Every PC game should have AT LEAST 60% of all these settings below when it comes to graphics:

Screen Mode (setting to fullscreen or window)
Resolution
Shadow Resolution
Anti-Aliasing
Custom Keybindings for almost every action in the game (this isnt really graphics related but it is kind of missing here so i feel like i need to shed some light on this)
V-Sync
Tessellation
Ambient Occlusion
Field of View
Depth of Field
Texture Filtering
Anistropic Filtering
Post Processing
Motion Blur
Bloom

Some are more important than others of course

Final Fantasy XIII uses almost 30% of all this. Not only that but the lowest available resolution is also pretty high, almost maximum for most laptops (1280x720 and most laptops use 1366x768 screen and its almost the same). And changing the resolution or the AA has almost no effect on the fps from what i've seen. When the game was released, it had no graphics options at all. Still one guy (GeDoSaTo) managed to fix the resolution problem and AA problem in 1 day after the game was released. Two months later, a update was available offering the same options that GeDoSaTo did. I don't know about you guys but it seems like the people who ported this game to PC are kind of lazy. I prefer the PS3 version over the PC version by a long shot.