Triangle Technique is an fascinating little gem. When it was initially introduced for Nintendo Swap, there was measurable elation. The sport was revealed following the discharge of Octopath Traveler, which paved the way in which for an unimaginable fashion that married each 2D and 3D parts collectively in a contemporary automobile. In a time the place pushing visible constancy continues to be all the trend, there was one thing to be mentioned about Sq. Enix returning to their roots – albeit in a means that expands past the standard pixel remake or upscale remaster.
For these unaware, it’s dubbed the “HD-2D” fashion as a result of pixel graphics of outdated are given the high-definition remedy with some added 3D parts. Producer Tomoya Asano and staff took these parts additional with Triangle Technique, creating a brand new tactical role-playing recreation that additionally aimed to name again to the times of Last Fantasy Techniques.
Triangle Technique happy these expectations and extra when it launched earlier this yr. We lined the lot of it in our authentic evaluation, noting that it was pleasant, spectacular and in all of the ways in which matter a prime contender for top-of-the-line video games of 2022. That’s in fact, all properly and good however there have been some minor inconveniences and lots of that needed to do with its platform. It’s no secret that the Swap isn’t probably the most highly effective console on the planet – and that’s tremendous, however on the subject of HD experiences, I used to be left wanting for extra. The query grew to become: would Triangle Technique additionally see a PC launch, as Octopath Traveler had?
That reply, a number of months later, is sure. Sq. Enix thought it the suitable time to pave the way in which for a PC port – dropping it in a form of shock announcement a month earlier than its launch. With Triangle Technique now obtainable on Steam, I used to be given an opportunity to expertise the sport for myself and see simply how properly this model ended up figuring out.
As the majority of Triangle Technique and the way it performs was lined in our preliminary evaluation, I’ll be utilizing this time to deal with what makes the PC model so interesting. When you’d prefer to know the ins and outs on how the sport performs, Quinton wrote up a bunch of phrases you can learn over right here.
Very first thing’s first, whenever you boot up Triangle Technique on PC you’re in a position to do some configuring to get the settings and different options to your liking. There’s a bunch of decision choices relying in your monitor setup, however the recreation does help as much as 4K for these with nicer {hardware}. Along with you can have the display show in full display, windowed or borderless windowed mode. As a result of I solely have a 1080p monitor, that’s what I ended up going with however sooner or later, it’s good to know that different choices can be found and simple to get to off the title menu.
There’s different choices too – you’ll be able to choose from English or Japanese audio and different accessibility options like battle velocity changes, together with graphics settings as much as Extremely on the shadows and anti-aliasing. Essentially the most urgent ones that I really feel the necessity to name consideration to, nonetheless, are the management choices. While the Swap model clearly performed on a controller, Triangle Technique on PC helps you to use both a controller or a keyboard and mouse enter. Having these decisions is an effective factor, however there’s an enormous caveat right here: the controller UI could be very restricted.
Fairly than doing what a great variety of trendy video games do and map buttons to no matter controller you’re utilizing – be it Xbox, PlayStation or some third-party factor – Triangle Technique forces you to make use of the Xbox prompts. It’s not an excessive amount of of a difficulty as you’ll be able to form of really feel your means round by figuring out which button confirms and goes again, that form of factor. It simply takes some getting used to.
I did, nonetheless, have a difficulty with getting my controller to work at first. I’d needed to make use of my DualSense controller as I normally do and ended up having to power Steam to get it to work utilizing their exterior choice for it. It’s not an enormous deal, however it will have been good to have extra plug-in play accessibility within the recreation correct.
When you wrap up getting the sport to look and sound the way you need, Triangle Technique begins and out the gate you’ll be able to see simply how a lot of a visible improve it’s been given operating on {hardware} that may actually push it. Armed with my gaming PC, Triangle Technique seems to be fairly good, gorgeous even. The added energy and Extremely graphics settings actually pushes the constancy of the HD-2D parts. Sprites look clear whereas nonetheless retaining their traditional appeal, as do the background, consumer interface and 3D parts. The sport runs as flawlessly as one can anticipate contemplating it’s not pushing the bounds of expertise, full of easy framerates and brief loading instances.
Whereas there’s actually no further options to “wow” you want a photograph mode or one thing particularly unique to the PC ecosystem, Triangle Technique is the kind of recreation that doesn’t essentially want that form of fluff. It’s a traditional fashion recreation that actually places that aesthetic on show.
All in all, Triangle Technique has a strong port. Regardless of gripes I’ve with the controller scenario, I did get it to work ultimately. The graceful visuals and PC-centric choices could also be simple, however that’s tremendous. The essential factor is that it really works and does what it units out to do properly. Extra importantly, it cements the PC model of Triangle Technique because the definitive launch and that’s actually all I might ask for.
Disclaimer: PC evaluation code supplied by the writer Sq. Enix.