Good news for anyone with eyeballs
Square-Enix released a patch today for their newest, hottest hit,Final Fantasy XVI. Patch 1.03 is largely just a quality-of-life update with some small tweaks, but it notably allows you to reduce the intensity of motion blur or turn it off entirely. Thank the Gods of Visual Clarity for that.
Motion blur is one of those modern visual effects that some people don’t like. For example,Idon’t like motion blur. In racing games, maybe, but essentially not any other time. Along with chromatic aberration and depth-of-field blur, it’s one of those things that developers really should allow you to turn off. It can be stylish, but it can also just look smudgy and ugly.
Also, when I need to take screenshots, if I’m playing a game that uses an intense motion blur, most of my shots wind up unusable. I typically record portions of my gameplay and take screenshots from that, which can often mean scrubbing through frames to find the one that isn’t smeared.
But I digress
Anyway, the patch notes are really short, sohere they are:
I haven’t actually playedFinal Fantasy XVI(haven’t gotten around to it), so this means very little to me. However, more options are always a good thing.
Final Fantasy XVIis currently available for PlayStation 5
