Dragonkin: The Banished

This game recieved a yellow rating due to performnce issues that can hamper the overall feeling and flow of gameplay.

Test Notes:

• Playable offline with a local account. After completing the tutorial, there is a prompt to continue playing offline.
• During one early cutscene, there was noticeable clipping and ghosting on character models.
• Performance mode targets 60 fps. However, this will drop considerably in areas with a large number of enemies on-screen. Performance rarely dropped below 30 fps at this setting, but there were a few particular survival/defense quest objectives that stressed performance especially.
• Quality mode displays an occasional delay when loading textures.
• In some areas, there is an issue that impacts gameplay and performance where the framerate drops progressively and brief micro-freezes start to occur. This was first noticed when exploring the Delphaipolis, Okeanos, Toriel’s Lands and Frontier areas in chapters 2 and 3. The drop in performance is seemingly due to the number of enemies killed in these areas. This resulted in a crash in one instance. Upon further testing, this issue was mitigated by teleporting back to the Montescail city hub area. This results in a more stable experience. It is therefore recommended to use newly discovered fast travel points to reset areas while progressing for a more ideal experience.
• Toriel’s Lands and Frontier show noticeable pop-in of textures at the edge of the screen in performance mode. Doesn’t appear to occur in Quality mode.
• Trophies related to defeating main story bosses unlocked as normal. Most progression trophies unlocked when exiting and loading back into the game if the requirements were met.
• Online mode allows the player to share character and city progression. This does not function offline, but a new city can be created offline either in story or endgame mode.
• Encountered one instance where some enemies stood still and didn’t attack in a small area. Enemy death animations also didn’t play on rare cases.
• High end loot can only be obtained on higher difficulties.
• 29.56 GB install

Content Completed:

• Main Story completed with Electrane.
• Sampled a few post-game hunts.
• Sampled Chaos hunts which are quests with customizable parameters.
• Sampled 2 player co-op.
• Achieved City Level 18.
• 19/44 Trophies unlocked.

Additional Notes:

• Build Version: 1.000.000 (1.0.0.50358 in-game)
• Disc ID Code: PPSA-21601
• Spine ID Code: 211611
• Number of Players: 1-2
• Audio Language Supported: English
• Menu/Subtitle Language Supported: English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Chinese (Simplified)
• Accessibility Options:  Disable attack flashing, Colorblind settings, Character highlight meter, Player Identifier (co-op), Screen shake settings, UI settings
• Quality/Performance Option: Gamma Correction, Sharpness, Motion Blur meter, HDR, Quality, Performance