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[Bullet Club]

Heavily inspired by classic Japanese cinema, Trek to Yomi delivers one of the most stylised, stylish presentations we've seen in a modern video game - but is there substance to back up that style? How does this distinct aesthetic scale across the current-gen consoles and what's the score with performance? Oliver Mackenzie has the DF Tech Review.

 

[saintjules]

You're too fast, OP Samurai.

 

[Riky]

Well you'll never guess which next gen console has a framerate advantage

 

[BigbyTheSheriff]

Well you'll never guess which next gen console has a framerate advantage

Oh no.

 

[reksveks]

Well you'll never guess which next gen console has a framerate advantage

Series S?

 

[Rocco Schiavone]

Who the commentator on this one??

 

[Rien]

Well you'll never guess which next gen console has a framerate advantage

Whooptiedoo!

 

[Bullet Club]

Who the commentator on this one??

Oliver Mackenzie

 

[Riky]

 

[OmegaSupreme]

 

[El Pistolero]

Ricky, go change your underwear.

 

[elliot5]

Nice looking game. Pretty bad performance across the board tho (unless you go PS4 BC). Gameplay isn't that good either I've heard/seen, but might be worth experiencing for 'free' on easy to get through with minimal frustration. I think they at least nail the Kurosawa aesthetic better than Tsushima as Oliver briefly mentions, too.

 

[DenchDeckard]

Holy shit! The little beast that could!

 

[DeepEnigma]

Clear difference in resolution as well.

 

[retsof624]

This game needs a patch to fix performance. I'll wait to finish it until it gets one

 

[Topher]

Clear difference in resolution as well.

PS5 and XSX

3840x1602

XSS

2304x964

 

[BigbyTheSheriff]

That's a gargantuan difference.

 

[DeepEnigma]

PS5 and XSX

3840x1602

XSS

2304x964

 

[Toots]

What you uncultured green swines don't get is that the 7 frames difference is just a tribute by Sony to the Seven Samurai movie which was a huge inspiration for the game...

Spoiler: at the attention of the mods

uncultured swine is a Hunter Thompson reference i'm not console warring im making fun of the console warriors...

 

[Riky]

If you watch the video they say that the resolution makes little difference due to the amount of post processing, framerate is king after all.

 

[SLB1904]

Another game where the ps4 version on ps5 is the way to go, but wtf is this framerates for this game lol

 

[Bernd Lauert]

The little gift that keeps on giving

 

[DeepEnigma]

If you watch the video they say that the resolution makes little difference due to the amount of post processing, framerate is king after all.

We have eyes. You can see the difference in the hat, hair, and cloth texture.

 

[phil_t98]

Well you'll never guess which next gen console has a framerate advantage

but weren't we told there was memory problems with the series s

 

[Topher]

"PS5 and XSX spend a lot of time between 40 and 55 fps"

XSS outperforms both XSX and PS5 in frame rate.

 

[avin]

Clearly, the PS5 and XSX are going to hold the XSS back this generation.

avin

 

[Swift_Star]

If you watch the video they say that the resolution makes little difference due to the amount of post processing, framerate is king after all.

Lame excuse when the difference is visible on a small inch iPhone screen.

 

[DeepEnigma]

"PS5 and XSX spend a lot of time between 40 and 55 fps"

XSS outperforms both XSX and PS5 in frame rate.

Damn, XSX outclassed by its weaksauce sibling.

 

[FrankWza]

Another game where the ps4 version on ps5 is the way to go

Yeah he says it’s the preferred way to play. It’s a wise conveyance

 

[Riky]

Lame excuse when the difference is visible on a small inch iPhone screen.

Take it up with DF, everyone believes what they say elsewhere.

 

[Swift_Star]

Take it up with DF, everyone believes what they say elsewhere.

I have eyes though.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Yeah he says it’s the preferred way to play. It’s a wise conveyance

Take it up with DF, everyone believes what they say elsewhere.

So many appeals to authority in here, I don't know which one to choose! HALP!

 

[adamsapple]

Wow that's some gargantuan pain right there.

 

[Allandor]

PS5 and XSX

3840x1602

XSS

2304x964

The performance of this game looks more like the black bars are a post-processing effect ^^. Yes the game looks stylish, but this is really bad performance on the consoles.
At least they should add an optional 30fps limiter.

So I guess the full resolution including the black bars is 4k on PS5 & xsx and 1440p on XSS.

 

[SLB1904]

Clearly, the PS5 and XSX are going to hold the XSS back this generation.

avin

I hope you are joking

 

[phil_t98]

Damn, XSX outclassed by its weaksauce sibling.

nice try to deflect lol

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Not even 1080p on the S? Christ.

 

[Topher]

If you watch the video they say that the resolution makes little difference due to the amount of post processing, framerate is king after all.

DF was talking specifically about the PS4 Pro version running on PS5. That wasn't a statement about the other versions.

 

[DeepEnigma]

nice try to deflect lol

How is that deflection? Be consistent.

 

[scydrex]

If you watch the video they say that the resolution makes little difference due to the amount of post processing, framerate is king after all.

Then the S is better than the X too if framerate is king... not only better than the PS5.

 

[Riky]

"This doesn't have an impact on clarity, however - the pixels are still mapped normally. Even factoring this in, pixel counts aren't particularly relevant, such is the level of post-processing. Series S at circa-964p looks similar, but a little blurrier than PS5/Series X's circa-1602p."

"Series S, curiously, has a substantial frame-rate advantage, typically leading the more powerful machines by around five frames per second in matching footage"

"This is a sort of unofficial 'performance mode' that tangibly improves performance, particularly on Series S, which now hits 60fps much more frequently"

"VRR definitely helps too - especially so on Xbox with its wider supported display refresh window"

Trek to Yomi: stunning aesthetics but performance falls short

PS5 and Xbox Series consoles tested.

www.eurogamer.net

 

[adamsapple]

How is that deflection? Be consistent.

 

[DenchDeckard]

Series s beating out 450 pound boxes. Performance is king, beast mode series s.

 

[DeepEnigma]

 

[Riky]

DF was talking specifically about the PS4 Pro version running on PS5. That wasn't a statement about the other versions.

Read the article quoted above

 

[OmegaSupreme]

And all of a sudden people care about this game. Amazing.

 

[Bojji]

Stupid as fuck devs strikes again, just like in EL only option is to suffer idiotic frame rate target or play PS4 version via BC. Even VRR on Xbox barely handles this inconsistency. Just WTF are they thinking.

 

[scydrex]

And all of a sudden people care about this game. Amazing.

Sure the Series S users will care because it outperform the PS5 and the X.

 

[Topher]

Read the article quoted above

Which is talking about the effect letterboxing has....

Looking at how the console implementations work, we should explain how the game's letterboxing affects resolution numbers. For PS5 and Xbox Series X, the borders encompass 276 pixels above and below the game video - and those borders are never encroached upon, with game HUD elements and subtitles always super-imposed over the central image. The effective viewable resolution of the game is reduced by 552 vertical pixels at 4K, or about 25.6 percent of the screen area that would normally be displayed. This doesn't have an impact on clarity, however - the pixels are still mapped normally. Even factoring this in, pixel counts aren't particularly relevant, such is the level of post-processing. Series S at circa-964p looks similar, but a little blurrier than PS5/Series X's circa-1602p.

 

[TLZ]

If you watch the video they say that the resolution makes little difference due to the amount of post processing, framerate is king after all.

They're both shit. I'm playing it on XSX and it's bad. It needs better optimisation. They should aim to make both locked 60. Framepacing is bad.