Digital Foundry released a technical study for Pokemon Legends: Arceus, which includes information on frame rate and resolution, among other things. The site also discusses some of the game’s unfortunate flaws.
Digital Foundry Tech highlights
- The game has difficulties with pop-in.
- From a high vantage point, the scene might seem flat, desolate, and lifeless.
- Shadows only render near to the player.
- At medium range, trees seem to fade in.
- The level of information on geometry such as topography changes abruptly directly in front of your eyes.
- Texture quality is set to a low resolution by default.
- Materials bleed into one other throughout the landscape.
- The shaders applied over any water body flash continually as you walk through water employs a screen space method for reflections.
- Visual artifacts surrounding a character appear as flashing pixels when a cave entrance is lit.
- When docked, Pokemon Legends: Arceus has a dynamic 1080p resolution.
- In more demanding areas, resolution lowers to 900p at its lowest.
- There isn’t any anti-aliasing in the game.
- 720p resolution in portable mode.
- The biggest difference between docked and portable modes is the resolution. In portable mode, there is just a little reduction in texture filtering quality
- Frame rate of Pokemon Legends: Arceus is restricted at 30 frames per second.
- When playing docked, the game has a frame rate hiccup same difficulties do not occur in portable mode.
About Pokemon Legends: Arceus
The Pokémon Legends: Arceus game preserves the fundamental gameplay of previous Pokémon games while including additional action and RPG components.
To develop and finish the Sinnoh region’s first Pokédex, you’ll need to collect, survey, and investigate wild Pokémon in a long-ago age.
Pokemon Legends: Arceus, which was released on January 28, 2022, is now available on Nintendo Switch.
