The Legend of Nayuta: Boundless Trails
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Developers | |
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Nihon Falcom | |
Windows | PH3 Games |
Publishers | |
NIS America | |
Release dates | |
Windows | December 10, 2021 |
Reception | |
OpenCritic | 77 |
IGDB | 81 |
Taxonomy | |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Third-person |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | ARPG, JRPG |
Art styles | Anime |
Themes | Fantasy |
Series | The Legend of Heroes |
The Legend of Nayuta: Boundless Trails is a third-person real-time ARPG in the The Legend of Heroes series, developed by Nihon Falcom and published by NIS America.
The game is an enhanced version of the 2012 PlayStation Portable game, Nayuta no Kiseki, based off the Kai remaster, originally released in Japan for PlayStation 4 in 2021.
The PC port was handled by PH3 Games and includes a number of enhancements and quality-of-life features that are exclusive to this release, such as support for ultrawide monitors, an unlimited draw distance, higher-resolution textures, and a toggleable High-Speed Mode.[1]
The game was released on December 10, 2021 in Asian territories on Steam, and internationally on multiple storefronts on September 19, 2023.
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Steam | DRM-free after installation. The English client shows "GOG Inited" [sic] in its window title, while the Japanese client shows "DRM-free mode" when launched outside of Steam. Both clients display "Steam Enabled" when the game is run through Steam.[2] Comes with Galaxy DLLs.[3] |
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Steam | Traditional Chinese and Korean only. | |||
Epic Games Store | ||||
GOG.com |
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | %LOCALAPPDATA%\Nayuta\ |
Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1668530/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\FALCOM\Nayuta\ |
Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1668530/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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Epic Games Launcher | ||
GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | Natively supports arbitrary aspect ratios, such as 4:3, 16:9, 16:10, and 21:9.[1] | ||
Multi-monitor | [4] | ||
Ultra-widescreen | FMV cutscenes and menus are pillarboxed to a 16:9 aspect ratio.[5] | ||
4K Ultra HD | [6] | ||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | |||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | |||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | Options for 1x, 4x, and 16x are available. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | Options for 2x, 4x, and 8x MSAA are available.[1] | ||
High-fidelity upscaling | |||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS | Capped at 60 FPS.[1] | ||
120+ FPS | |||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the glossary page for potential alternatives. | ||
Ray tracing (RT) |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | Most actions can be bound to a primary and a secondary key. An optional separate layout is available when "Mouse Move" is enabled. |
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Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | The menus must be navigated with a keyboard as the game lacks a cursor to select any options and the mouse wheel is unusable, but left and right click can still be used for confirm and cancel, respectively. | |
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support | ||
Full controller support | ||
Controller remapping | Each action can be mapped to a primary and a secondary button. | |
Controller sensitivity | ||
Controller Y-axis inversion |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers | ||
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Xbox button prompts | Set "Input Prompts" to "Xbox" in Options > Settings > Main. Enabled by default. |
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Impulse Trigger vibration |
DualShock 4 controllers | ||
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DualShock button prompts | Set "Input Prompts" to "DualShock" in Options > Settings > Main. | |
Light bar support | ||
Connection modes | V2, Wired, Bluetooth |
Generic/other controllers | ||
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Button prompts | Supports Steam Deck, Stadia Controller and Switch Pro Controller. Set "Input Prompts" to "Steam Deck", "Stadia", or "Nintendo" in Options > Settings > Main for their respective prompts. |
Additional information | ||
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Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M | Keyboard and button prompts switch from one another if using different inputs while "Auto Prompts" is enabled. |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Sliders for BGM, Sound Effects, and Voice. | |
Surround sound | Stereo only.[7] | |
Subtitles | Text boxes, accompanied with voice acting during key scenes, are utilized. An option to auto advance text boxes is also available. |
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Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | Game pauses when focus is lost. | |
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Traditional Chinese | Only available in the Asian release. | |||
Japanese | ||||
Korean | Only available in the Asian release. |
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 11 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Audio | Opus | |
Cutscenes | WebM |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 8 | 10, 11 |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Core i3 | Intel Core i5 3.30Ghz |
System memory (RAM) | 4 GB | 8 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 5 GB[8] | |
Video card (GPU) | AMD Radeon HD 6570 DirectX 11 compatible | AMD Radeon R7 200 Series |
- A 64-bit operating system is required.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/1668530/
in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1668530) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details. - ↑ The same bindings are also used for the Mouse Move layout.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 The Legend of Nayuta: Boundless Trails PC Port Information - Peter "Durante" Thoman, via Steam Events
- ↑ Verified by User:MasterBlaster on 2023-09-17
- Tested by starting
nys.exe
andnys_JP.exe
while Steam is not running.
- Tested by starting
- ↑ Verified by User:Itsumi1117 on 2021-12-12
- ↑ Verified by User:MasterBlaster on 2023-09-16
- Tested on a multi-monitor setup.
- ↑ Verified by User:MasterBlaster on 2023-09-16
- Tested by playing the game at 3840x1080 and 2560x1080 resolutions.
- ↑ Verified by User:MasterBlaster on 2023-09-16
- Tested by playing the game at 3840x2160 resolution.
- ↑ Verified by User:MasterBlaster on 2023-09-17
- Tested in 7.1 using Orban Loudness Meter in conjunction with Razer Surround.
- ↑ Verified by User:MasterBlaster on 2023-09-19
- Actual install size is 4.02 GB.
- ↑ Nayuta no Kiseki: KAI on Windows 7 | Alan's Patreon on Patreon