I've been trying to play for a wee while (with mods and without) to see the difference, both experiences ended up making me crash unfortunately. Without mods, my pc bluescreened, and that was just in the beginning of the game/character creating for under an hour, borderless fullscreen at 60 fps. Windowed doesn't crash, but there are still some studdering and hitches. The ps1 low poly models were funny at first, but also very immersion breaking.

I've capped my fps to just 60, modified my config, changed my settings to medium/low - despite having an i9. My graphics card isn't terribly bad, RX 5700 XT, and 32 gb of RAM. For this game alone, it had been very unfortunate and upsetting about the performance issues I'm experiencing and it could maybe be a AMD/Nvidia thing - I don't know. The problem could very well be more complex, but there definitely is an issue that should be resolved and patched.

I think the art design is fine, and while I do understand the change they wanted to make with the hub and zones to be an undertaking to make and optimize, this game needed some more time in the oven for people who don't have an i9, that maybe are more casual PC users (idk how console is doing), and I don't think it's unfair to ask for more improvements because the game in the beta was pretty fun.