I am setsuna world map 720p#
I am setsuna world map Ps4#

Your characters and the enemies will simply take a place in the battlefield and you will immediately start. There is no separate battle screen in this game. There are a few ways that this game separates itself from others of this genre, though.īattles take place directly on the map. Perform your move then wait for the ATB bar to charge again. Once it does, you may select an enemy to attack, to use a technique or to use an item. You wait while a meter referred to as the active time bar (ATB for short) fills up. You control three characters at any time. The battle system in I am Setsuna will be familiar to most fans of classic JRPGs. This will be an inconvenience to you later on in the game where knowing your relative position to other parts of the map would have been incredibly useful.

Additionally, there is no separate screen you can check to look at the overall map of the world. You will occasionally have to walk back and forth across fairly sizable islands, and this can be a cumbersome task while walking at a leisurely pace. For example, there is no run button while on the world map. However, there are a few inconveniences regarding this. There are no battles to be fought while exploring the world map, so you are able to explore the world at your leisure. (Most of the information was learned from Digital Foundry’s analysis of this game) Turn based JRPGs are somewhat slow experiences, and a fast frame rate doesn’t necessarily improve a game of this nature.

This in no way hinders the experience, though. However, the devs opted to reduce the frame rate from the PS4’s 60FPS to 30FPS on the Switch.

I am setsuna world map 720p#

While docked, this game runs at a locked 1080p and, of course, 720p while in handheld mode.

I am setsuna world map Ps4#

Fortunately, the Switch version stands up exceedingly well to the PS4 version in almost every way. This game was originally released on the PS4 then was ported to the Switch. The design of the landscape reflects that entirely and very effectively. This world has suffered a catastrophe, and the people are suffering and desperate. While this may appear to be lazy and feels somewhat repetitive, I understand the concept the devs were aiming for. There are no other kinds of environments to discover in this game. The world in I am Setsuna is a bleak one. Even if you turn on the voices, you will have to simply listen to battle Japanese voices with no subtitles. However, be aware that there are no English voices.

Additionally, you can leave all of the other characters voices on and turn off Endir’s voice in the menu if you want to follow the classic theme of having a “silent hero”. When you start the game, you are also given the option to turn that off if you want a purely classic experience. Aside from while you are in battle, there is no voice acting to be found here. The devs of this game aimed for it to look and feel like a classic JRPG, and they decided to follow suit with this concept in terms of voice acting. The music absolutely stood out to me and was one of the most memorable aspects of the experience. The soundtrack, while limited in its range of potential sounds, came together in a fantastic fashion. The only other game even remotely like it which I can think of is Deemo which is a rhythm game featuring only the piano.

To my knowledge, there are no other games like it where the music is focused so entirely on one instrument while still featuring a wide variety of songs eliciting different emotions ranging from sadness to excitement. Yet, here is a bright young woman who is kind and caring for everyone she meets, and at the same time she has resigned herself to her own impending fate. There is always an end goal and you rarely feel as though you are actively trying to put someone in jeopardy. In most RPGs, your goals are always clearly hopeful. This is even from the first meeting with Setsuna where it is revealed that Endir’s new goal is to escort this young woman to her death. Regardless of your choices, the game consistently follows one theme: sadness. A boy recounts his tale of his friend committing suicide in the lake. This really just detracted from the experience and would have been better had these dialogue choices simply not been included in the game. Everyone will ignore you, and the story carries on as normal. Whether it is choosing to kill Setsuna or to leave a person being attacked to their fate, you are simply unable to progress with the “bad” option. However, if you choose the option which does not fit the predetermined story, then your choice is shrugged off by the group and ignored. Occasionally, you will be given choices about whether or not to take certain actions. Generally, these will have minor differences and just give you a little more control over the dialogue. Every time Endir speaks, you are given one of two dialogue options.