PlatinumGames has just released The Wonderful 101 Remastered on the PC. However, it appears that the PC version was not that polished when it launched. And, after testing the game, we can confirm that there are some major issues with this PC port that the team has not fixed.
Let’s start with the good things. From the get-go, the game supports mouse and keyboard. Moreover, the game can run with 59fps on a wide range of PC systems. This basically means that a lot of PC gamers will be able to run the game. Additionally, the game displays proper on-screen K&M indicators.
Unfortunately, and despite the first first impressions, you will immediately experience some awful PC issues. For instance, there are frame pacing issues as PlatinumGames has locked the framerate at 59fps. Thankfully, there is already a mod that resolves these frame pacing issues that you can download from here.
The game also suffers from some, idiotic, default key mapping. For whatever reason, PlatinumGames has set key “R” to be the Menu key. The ESC key does nothing, which was really surprising. Without knowing this small detail, it was a pain in the ass to find the Menu.
The mouse also does not work in all the menus. While you can navigate some menus, you cannot use it to change the graphics or sound settings. In order to make changes to them, you’ll have to use the WASD keys. Also note that the arrow keys are not working in the menus, which is another strange decision.
The biggest issue of the game, however, is the mouse sensitivity while playing the game. To put it simple, the mouse does not work properly. Instead of offering a 1-1 raw input, it seems that it emulates a gamepad stick movement. That, or there is something else going on here. As a result of that, I was unable to complete most of the Wonder-Liners. In order to complete a Wonder-Liner, you’ll have to press Alt and then draw a shape via your mouse. Theoretically, this should be really easy with a mouse, right? Well, it’s not. I was unable to make a simple circle with the mouse or a diagonal straight line. Seriously, the mouse controls in this game are among the worst I’ve ever seen. The game can become completely unplayable and until PlatinumGames fixes this, we strongly suggest avoiding playing the game with keyboard and mouse.
Now I know what some of you will say; this game was built for gamepads. However, that’s not an excuse here. The mouse is an ideal input device for drawing shapes. Seriously, even a small kid can draw a circle in MSPaint with a mouse. The fact that PlatninumGames has managed to completely mess up this simple input control scheme is… quite an achievement.
Let’s hope that the team will address this via a post-launch update. To be honest, though, this seems unlikely. Thus, let’s hope that a modder will fix this. After all, modders were able to provide proper and enjoyable mouse and keyboard controls in another Japanese game, NieR Automata.
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This really should’ve been a $20 port of they were going to put this little effort into it.
Wait, it isn’t ? LoL, what a joke. Destroy All Humans that is a truly remake and not a port is 30$.
It’s $40, totally ridiculous.
Destroy All humans is from people that actually gives a SCHITT. They care and they are PC Devs first and foremost. Western devs are all PC Devs for the most part, especially EU Devs. In the East they despise PC. Which I find funny, because I want aware that Nintendo & PlayStation could develop games ???
japs think the pc is only for jerk off visual novels.
The Incompetent 101
All the backing it received was basically for nothing. The game was coming out either way.
I love Platinum, but I don’t think I can trust them after this (the Kickstarter included) and the horrible condition of their ports. Not to mention, they never bother going back to fix them.
Platinum Games is a console devs. Soo no suprise here.
Jap devs*
I wanna know who did Vanquish port on PC then, cause it was perfect. Every other platinum game on PC controls like DOG SCHITT, so i have reaosn to beleive they did not PORT Vanquish.
sega europe ported it i’m pretty sure.
And they got no credit. Because we need to know these things. VANQUISH, The damn Controls were flawless. Because you can tell The games platinum ports themself, Metal Gear Rising, has the worse fuqing controls known to man. Nier, say no more…
porters rarely get credit. durante ported the cold steel games to pc,and his company isn’t mentioned in the games.
Yeah outside of a very specific bug that the dmg you recieved were escalating with your fps, the rest was basically perfect, i also did not have any problems with Bayonnetta.
So maybe it’s something releated to SEGA ? since both are published by her and i never had any problem with SEGA ports on PC, on the other hand NieR Automata, another Plat game but published by Square it’s barely functional to this day.
Yeah outside of a very specific bug that the dmg you recieved were escalating with your fps, the rest was basically perfect, i also did not have any problems with Bayonnetta.
So maybe it’s something releated to SEGA ? since both are published by her and i never had any problem with SEGA ports on PC, on the other hand NieR Automata, another Plat game but published by Square it’s barely functional to this day.
So how is it compared to running it on Cemu?
Well the original gaming had pacing issues/framerate issues too..so I would say this is at least patchable.
lazy conslow port
What kind of game is this ? I can’t seem to like or dislike it , it’s a what the hell do I do here ? Where? What? Ha ?!
ffs, they’ve had that 59fps bug in 3 games now – Metal Gear Rising, Transformers: Devastation, and now this
It comes from their engine. They just haven’t bothered. Technical ability isn’t their thing.
Yeah that is just terrible on their technical ability. And they had claimed to update the platinum engine. It’s a very Schitty engine, true just look horrible on that engine, especially when they do games with realistic “flesh tones”. That’s why they started doing cartoony games cause that stuff doesn’t show up there.
how the f*k in 2020 the japanise cant make a normal pc port for once ……….
They never could, it was always handed off to a EU company it seems. That’s whenever you get a good port that is. The bad ones is all them. They are trash when it comes to pc.
You mean after the “stellar” Nier port, they botched another one? What is it with Japanese devs and their total disregard of pc?
Well they are very stubborn and very xenophobic and yet we love to call ourselves that. Knowing that the rest of the world doesn’t care for us either. When I say xenophobic, if it’s not PlayStation or Nintendo, they don’t care. When I use to work for Microsoft back in the 360 days (Marketing), in Japan 360 moved virtually no units. Because in the store they’d have it in the back and the signed label, “American piece of Schitt back there”, in Japanese. What am I saying here, the rest of the world has moved on and consoles aren’t top dogs anymore, Japanese devs see’s that as a threat. Now that they are forced to care about PC & they despise the platform. Because they worship consoles, because consoles necessarily means JAPAN. That’s why they despised Xbox because it’s American and they see’s it as a slap in the face. Their take on it is, “We already have consoles from Japan, why do you have to make another. Is our console not good enough for you?”
Its personal to them… Idiots doesn’t understand business. But even though they are slow to come around it doesn’t help that personal computers aren’t really a thing in Japan. They are all about the phones, they do everything from their phones and not many people just have a computer laying around there. So that is another obstacle to get over. But I don’t play Japanese games very much because I know these things. When I was on console I loved platinum games. Once I became more of a PC gamer primarily I don’t even touch their games anymore.
I mainly play japanese games on emulators. I also play any port that I know sega europe did.
“PC port of Japanese game is crap, tune in at 11 for more on this breaking news!”
Haha, ???
holy f###### this game looks like hot garbage. those screenshots taken from a ps2 build? holy gawd!
Missed a golden chance to say the wonderful 101 remaster was not wonderful at all.
If the framepacing issues are fixed, then the port is perfect. Playing a Platinum Games title with mouse and keyboard is a crime against mankind that should be punished by exile from society.
one of the things that was a problem in Just Cause 2’s PC port was negative mouse acceleration, could that be the case here?(I haven’t played this game on PC, but I’ve wrangled with Just Cause 2’s mouse until I found the mod to fox it)
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