Thoughts on the actual content of the game: https://twitter.com/moogy0/status/1532980939541909504
Based on playing the PC port in Japanese. You might be interested to know that Yoru no nai Kuni/Nights of Azure was written by the same person as Asellus's route of SaGa Frontier (Shouda Miwa, who also wrote the Jumi arc in Legend of Mana), and thus the two share some terminology in Japanese. For example, both Asellus and Arnice are 半妖, and the demons in this game and the mystics in SaGa Frontier are both known as 妖魔 in Japanese. From what I can tell, all of these connections were lost in the English localization, though the various similarities between the two games should still be apparent.
The PC port of this game is extremely busted and requires a lot of, shall we say, cajoling to play comfortably. Or play at all, really. It's probably better to just play it on console (or emulate the PS3 version in RPCS3), but I'll provide some information about the port for anyone like me who really wants to play it on PC... or just as a warning, I guess.
Here are the main things you should know about the port:
●You'll need to edit a registry entry to make it run at resolutions higher than 1080p.
●The game will run at the highest framerate your monitor supports, but if it runs at greater than 60 fps, you'll be unable to collect items during map exploration. You will need to manually cap the framerate to 60 if using a monitor with a refresh rate higher than 60hz.
●Borderless fullscreen is not an option provided by the game. Launch the game in windowed mode and use Borderless Gaming or another similar program.
●Controller support is implemented in a questionable manner, requiring the player to manually bind every input in a separate program before launching the game, with no indication what the buttons on your controller correspond to.
●While it does also support KBM controls, you cannot remap the keybindings in any way, nor are they listed anywhere.
●This isn't something exclusive to the PC port, but there is no autosave. For whatever reason Gust didn't add autosave to their games until quite recently.
●There is no option to close the game. You'll need to kill it manually on your end, which may be problematic for some setups.
For further information, such as how to set arbitrary resolutions via editing the registry, please see the game's page on the PC Gaming Wiki: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Nights_of_Azure
This thread on the Steam board has a list of controller bindings that should work if using a 360 controller (or emulating one via programs such as DS4Windows): https://steamcommunity.com/app/527280/discussions/0/135509314046543492/
If you are enough of a yuri fan to finagle the PC port into working, then I salute you.
Based on playing the PC port in Japanese. You might be interested to know that Yoru no nai Kuni/Nights of Azure was written by the same person as Asellus's route of SaGa Frontier (Shouda Miwa, who also wrote the Jumi arc in Legend of Mana), and thus the two share some terminology in Japanese. For example, both Asellus and Arnice are 半妖, and the demons in this game and the mystics in SaGa Frontier are both known as 妖魔 in Japanese. From what I can tell, all of these connections were lost in the English localization, though the various similarities between the two games should still be apparent.
The PC port of this game is extremely busted and requires a lot of, shall we say, cajoling to play comfortably. Or play at all, really. It's probably better to just play it on console (or emulate the PS3 version in RPCS3), but I'll provide some information about the port for anyone like me who really wants to play it on PC... or just as a warning, I guess.
Here are the main things you should know about the port:
●You'll need to edit a registry entry to make it run at resolutions higher than 1080p.
●The game will run at the highest framerate your monitor supports, but if it runs at greater than 60 fps, you'll be unable to collect items during map exploration. You will need to manually cap the framerate to 60 if using a monitor with a refresh rate higher than 60hz.
●Borderless fullscreen is not an option provided by the game. Launch the game in windowed mode and use Borderless Gaming or another similar program.
●Controller support is implemented in a questionable manner, requiring the player to manually bind every input in a separate program before launching the game, with no indication what the buttons on your controller correspond to.
●While it does also support KBM controls, you cannot remap the keybindings in any way, nor are they listed anywhere.
●This isn't something exclusive to the PC port, but there is no autosave. For whatever reason Gust didn't add autosave to their games until quite recently.
●There is no option to close the game. You'll need to kill it manually on your end, which may be problematic for some setups.
For further information, such as how to set arbitrary resolutions via editing the registry, please see the game's page on the PC Gaming Wiki: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Nights_of_Azure
This thread on the Steam board has a list of controller bindings that should work if using a 360 controller (or emulating one via programs such as DS4Windows): https://steamcommunity.com/app/527280/discussions/0/135509314046543492/
If you are enough of a yuri fan to finagle the PC port into working, then I salute you.