Update: after careful analysis by Digital Foundry it emerges that Balanced mode reaches 60fps and not 40fps contrary to what was written in the first draft of this content. We therefore proceeded to update the text.
In addition to reflections on the longevity and duration of the Stellar Blade campaign, our review of the exclusive PlayStation 5 offers us other ideas for dealing with a topic dear to those who are preparing to immerse themselves in the challenges offered by Shift Up’s next action adventure: which graphics mode to choose?
The latest work from the South Korean development house offers three graphic modes to choose from right from launch: EVE emulators who will try their hand at Stellar Blade’s in-game activities starting from April 26th will be able to decide to play in Resolution, Performance and Balanced.
The first mode, as can easily be understood, puts the computational power of PlayStation 5 at the service of those who prefer to give up a high framerate for maximize the resolution and the level of detail of the graphics sector. The activation of Performance presets, on the other hand, suits those who are willing to compromise on graphics and resolution in order to play at 60fps. The Balanced preset closes the circle, which with its 60fps represents a valid compromise between the two now canonical solutions for video games of the current generation of consoles. This despite some sporadic drops in framerate in the most frenetic situationsas confirmed by the always very precise colleagues at Digital Foundry.
Regardless of the graphics mode selected, there is a big difference between the launch build of Stellar Blade and the Demo tested by fans of the genre on PS5 since the end of March: in the day one version, in fact, the sci-fi action of Shift Up doesn’t have any kind of input lag issues, as a result EVE’s controls are always very responsiveobviously net of the differences in responsiveness that can be perceived when moving from one extreme to the other of the framerate range between 30 and 60fps.
Having made these necessary clarifications, let’s return to the initial topic of the article to resolve the last doubts on the preferable graphic preset to start the PS5 exclusive in the best possible way. In our review of Stellar Blade, the good Antonello ‘Kirito’ Bello reports that he conducted the tests mainly in Performance mode and having experienced aextremely smooth actionwith excellently crafted animations and a graphics section which, despite a significant qualitative discrepancy between one scenario and another, is still enjoyable.
By the very nature of a title that focuses heavily on the frenzy of fighting and on the timing in executing the most suitable moves to break the defenses of the enemy in question, consequently, our advice can only be to play Stellar Blade in Performance mode, but not before experimenting with the other two graphic modes to ‘ touch the differences represented by the dynamic resolution range, the fluidity of the combat system and the richness of details of the setting.
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