Enthusiastic Digital Foundry technicians fail Chrono Cross: Radical Dreamers In the latest video analysis posted on YouTube, Performance on PS5 and PS4 they are equal lower than original PSX versionit even describes it as “without a doubt, one of the worst performing titles on PS4”.
Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition offers two modes; Classic mode is basically the original game and a remastered mode. The latter features 3D models of reshaped characters, remastered menu music, and game backgrounds that have been retouched thanks to upgrading via AI. This last point caused Digital Foundry to stick its nose up for not believing that quality work is being done. At first glance, upscaling will undoubtedly soften the image, but you only have to sharpen your eyes to notice. graphic works and other issues denoting a quick job where amateur modders get better results in this regard with projects that are made available to the community completely free of charge.
As for performance, the game offers a “dynamic frame rate”. What does it mean? The Chrono Cross remaster “aims” at 30fps during exploration and combat, increasing to 60fps in menus. The problem is that the game inexplicably suffers from marked and prolonged drops in fluency. In the video, we can see that the frame rate usually drops to 20 fps during reconnaissance, reaching even in combat. 12-14fps During the animations of the most spectacular spells. Overall, the PS4 version offers worse performance than the original PS1, even with backward compatibility with PS5.
We also learn from the video that this is not a problem with PlayStation consoles, as the performances on Nintendo Switch are basically the same (and also on PC, according to the controversy that arose on Steam), with the advantage of being a bad-working mod made portable. with the upgrade and some graphical artifacts are less noticeable.
Source: Multiplayer
