This week's new Cloud Monday video is part 2 of playing Sand Land on PS4, via the PlayStation Plus Cloud Streaming Service to my Japanese launch model PlayStation 4. My laptop crashed whilst recording this video so my audio is from my backup, from my Mini Disc MZ-RH10 player.
Part 1, https://youtu.be/rKMnNyzb70s, went very well. it was a near perfect streaming experience that allowed us to focus on the game itself. the streaming experience in this part wasn't as great, but it was solid enough for me to come to the conclusion that Sand Land is a great game to stream from the cloud.
we learned that we get access to manual saves very early in the game. in this part we found where the auto saves are listed and that we get useful information like the time of the auto save. this means, when we get the 20 second warning before disconnection it is easy to manually save. a concern i had specific to this game was the sand, dust, and particles on screen. some streaming services, including YouTube, struggle with this and it can result in a degraded video being streamed to us. across both parts, i felt that the video we got never changed.
Visually, Sand Land looks fantastic on my PS4 and with how big the characters are on screen, when we had a little stream tearing it never really got in the way of us seeing what was on the screen. whilst we didn't have it in either of these parts, i would suspect that Macro Blocking would also not be much of an issue because of how big the art is and how it isn't reliant on fine details.
We're early into the game, How long to Beat says Sand Land is about a 20 hour game, so there could be issues later into the game. but there was nothing in these two parts that has got me concerned. if you're interested in Sand Land, streaming it from the Cloud is a great way to experience the game and i'd recommend doing so.
