Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana currently sits at respectable 85% on Metacritic basing on the PlayStation 4 version of the game. The user score is also pretty good, reaching an 8.2 with more than 130 reviews. It looks like Nihon Falcom's action RPG is a generally great game with mechanics that suit both casual players while giving more hardcore gamers a challenge. But the PC version is a different story.
The seventh chapter of the
Ys main series launched on PC yesterday and the game is being crushed on Steam with only 23% of the user reviews being positive. The mostly negative verdicts are more than justified as the developer clearly didn't put any effort into making the port. Steam players who have posted reviews say that the game is simply unplayable for the most part. But what went wrong?
According to Cartography Dee, "
If you are a (keyboard + mouse) player, this game is impossible to recommend. The mouse camera Is incredibly jittery and moves at a constant speed regardless of your mouse movement." "
Can't even get to play the first chapter without the game crashing constantly on the beach," Stolken adds. NightcoreLounge makes it clear as "
This port is an ABSOLUTE mess..."
NISA apologizes for the quality of the port in today's report and promises that the developer is working hard and is also "currently investigating all reports coming in to our Troubleshooting Forum, so please continue to report any and all issues you are encountering. We kindly request that you include additional relevant information such as the steps to reproduce and your system specs."
There's a chance that the Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana Steam/GOG versions will be fixed over the coming weeks. It's probably for the best to wait for the promised fixes and upgrades in the meantime. It's pretty sad, considering that those are basic stuff that should have been working from the beginning...
Ys returns with a brand new adventure for the first time in 8 years! Adol awakens shipwrecked and stranded on a cursed island. There, he and the other shipwrecked passengers he rescues form a village to challenge fearsome beasts and mysterious ruins on the isolated island. Amidst this, Adol begins to dream of a mysterious blue-haired maiden living in an unknown world. Join Adol as he unravels the riddle of the cursed isle and the blue-haired maiden Dana in Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA!
Nihon Falcom's Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of DANA is available on PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 4, Microsoft Windows now, with the Nintendo Switch version of the game launching on June 26.