Evaluation of "The Soul of Falklands: Director's Editing Edition": Won the world's top selling list, and Sony 3A game landing on PC went crazy

The Soul of Ma Dao is a turnaround for Sucker Punch Studio. When it was released in 2020, no one expected that they could polish the Japanese samurai theme RPG, which is very different from the style of Disrepute, to such a detail that it became a benchmark in the category of formulaic and open world.

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The word "formulaic open world" is not very pleasant to hear, but "Soul of Falklands" does not go beyond the play of "attacking strongholds and clearing question marks". However, compared with the works that choose this approach, SuckerPunch fully combines all kinds of play methods with the game features, so that it does not have a strong sense of repetition.

After the release of the game, SuckerPunch rearranged the plot again, expanded the story of Inoue's father, launched the "Soul of Makhima: Director's Editing Edition", and also transplanted it to the PS5 platform, where the game lineup was not rich at that time.

As the last survivor, Horizon: West of the Dead and other exclusive masterpieces have gradually landed on the PC platform, recently Soul of the Falklands: Director's Edition has also officially landed on Steam. This not only allows those players who have not experienced the work to appreciate the unique charm of this masterpiece, but also gives the old players a chance to experience a wonderful story again.

In fact, before the release, many players, including me, had doubts about the quality of the game transplant. After all, it was not uncommon for Sony to "transplant a masterpiece".

However, this migration was not entrusted to the Iron Galaxy, which had achieved good results repeatedly, but to Sony's own Nixxes studio. They from the Netherlands were included by Sony in 2021, and showed their sophistication in the transplant work of such masterpieces as Horizon: The West's Dead End, Ricky and Tinker Bell: Time and Space Jump. Therefore, Sony was confident to hand over the transplant work of Soul of Ma Dao: Director's Editing to them.

According to the author's travel experience in recent days, the optimization and adaptation of the PC side of "To the Soul of Ma Island: Director's Edition" is very good. Officially, the functions of the DualSense handle of the PS5 have been reserved (it needs a wired connection), so that players can experience the immersion provided by the technology of the next era. At the same time, the keyboard and mouse have been finely adapted to make the operation fine and natural.

In addition, when such cinematic works pursuing audio-visual experience log on to the PC platform, they can naturally break through the performance bottleneck of the host platform, instead of making choices in terms of frame rate and image quality.

According to the actual measurement, when I use the 4070TI graphics card and the i7-13700 CPU to experience the game, the game can still maintain the excellent performance of () frames under the condition of the highest screen effects. At the same time, the game also supports DLSS 3, XeSS and FSR 3 technologies, which will undoubtedly improve the game experience for players with less hardware conditions.

It can be seen that Nixxes Studio not only moved the "Soul of Ma Island: Director's Edition" to the PC platform almost perfectly, but also gave full play to the huge potential advantages of the PC platform hardware, so that the work can appear in front of the players with a more perfect image.

Because the Steam platform was chosen to log in to the Soul of the Falklands: Director's Edition, in addition to the coexistence of high frame rate and high image quality, the powerful adaptability of the Steam platform enables players to experience the charm of the work at any time and anywhere.

For example, players can now experience the single player play of the game through laptops, Steam Deck and other handheld devices, instead of requiring a specific playing environment, or running around with heavy game consoles like many bulls.

In addition, we should not forget that in addition to a single story with rich plot and pleasant playing method, the Soul of the Falklands: Director's Editing Edition also has a fantasy mode of main cooperation for players to experience. Although this mode cannot be played on Steam Deck and other handheld devices due to the integration of PSN online function, the cross platform online function of PC, PS4 and PS5 has been officially opened up.

According to the actual experience, although I didn't rank players from other platforms when I played Qitan mode on my PC, I can still feel cross platform online by inviting friends. And the official also said that they would continue to optimize and adjust the cross platform online function in the past few weeks, so that players can be ranked from other platform teammates in the form of matching, making this function more perfect.

In any case, after landing on the PC, the game conditions and social properties of the "Soul of the Falklands: Director's Edition" have been optimized compared with the past, making more players experience the charm of this masterpiece. I believe that this is also the core of Sony's efforts to promote cross platform experience.

So far, a considerable number of Sony's proud cinematic works have landed on the PC platform. In fact, breaking the platform barrier and allowing more people to experience such an exclusive masterpiece as "Soul of Ma Island: Director's Editing" is not only a good thing that major manufacturers are trying to promote today, but also one of the ways to make old games shine again!

So what do you think of the PC version of Madao?