Wukong's fifth level is all rocks and not gonna lie, im slightly disappointed. the texture quality simply isnt that great. its better than say GOW's musphelheim levels but not even remotely close to the PS5 demo or even its own Chapter 2 rocks. I dont understand why because this level is barely hitting 60% on my gpu when literally the forest level in chapter 4 forced me to drop from dlss quality to dlss performance just to hold 30 fps.
it's clear that forests not being nanite is why those levels are taxing, but its clear these rocks can either have better geometry or better textures or both. the vram is low, the gpu usage is low. so why not use the highest quality assets and textures? i would love to know the reasoning behind this.
Still, my mind pretty much stopped working during this cutscene, especially the cloth physics in this shot. I had to turn on my MSI afterburner to see cpu and gpu usage both of which were running at peak clocks. so definitely realtime.
The hair tech in this game, the cloth physics, the material work on the armor is all just sublime. There is a scene with like 5 asian girls each with long flowy hair with perfect shading. I dont think ive seen hair like this. not even in Fifa.
I am surprised that this game has just an 82 on metacritic. i suppose the story is trash so maybe people held that against it but then again it didnt matter for elden ring and ff7 rebirth so not sure why all of a sudden the story matters.
Regardless, this is my goty not just because the gameplay is fun, but because its a fantastic action adventure game that isnt brutally hard like souls and is simply a fun game with exceptional visuals, animations, boss encounters and stunning art direction. its what gow, hfw and elden ring shouldve been.
