Monday, March 3, 2025

Cloud Monday - Two Point Campus - Quick, Auto, And Saving On Exit Are Great For Cloud Playing


This week's new Cloud Monday video is part 1 of playing Two Point Campus on #PS4 via the #PlayStationPlus Cloud Streaming Service to my Japanese launch model #PlayStation4.

I have Two Point Hospital on #Switch but i've never started it, so going in i wasn't too sure how it would play. thankfully the game has a fine tutorial that's helped with enough of the game's basics, but i've had to use experience and guess work for some of it.

one of the highlights about playing Two Point Campus is the save system and it's something the game should really highlight as it really helps when playing it from the cloud. with the PlayStation Cloud Streaming Service there's only a 20 second warning before you're disconnected. this makes being able to manually save or a very frequent auto save important. Two Point Campus has 3 different ways it saves, it seems to have a decent auto save that i've set to monthly, it has a Quick Save tho it never really defines what that means, and there's also save and exit which i didn't show in the video but it's something i experienced.

It wasn't the best streaming experience i've had. right at the game's title screen, we could see zebra striping artifacts on the screen. there were moments of macro blocking throughout this video, and there was even a time when nearly a third of the top half of the screen went grey. 

I switched the UI to Big, in the settings, so that helped make things more legible for those watching this video but it also meant things were still fine during the brief moments of macro blocking. the game's artstyle also helps with this, as does the game's ability to zoom it.

Overall, my time with Two Point Campus during this first part was pleasant and much less stressful as i knew i was able to save very easily. i'm looking forward to trying out part 2 because of this experience.