Damn, DQXI S demo is pretty nice on PC. It's unfortunate it loses the CG movie quality shader look that really blew me away at release, but playing at smooth 144fps, running with the RT, party talk, voice acting, zero load times, orchestra music, super fast battles...yeah, this feels hella nice.
Glad this is free on Game Pass since already bought this twice at full price on PS4 and Switch. While portable is definitely nice, visually this is an insane improvement over the switch version, so finally will sit down and play through the entire thing when the PC version is out in a month. Will be nice to finally get pass where I left off in the PC version around 30 hours in at the seaside town. It's been long enough I don't mind just playing from start, I barely remember anything as is and with running and speed battle mode should be able to get back there in half the time. Never got around to playing the Switch version at all, oh well.
Visually the flat lighting makes the game look more like DQVIII's art style, which is fine and works. I do wonder if SE doesn't have them ground up remake the game again for PS5/XSX in another 1-2 years with the original visual style + added improvements put back in to re-sell a final definitive edition. But eh, at this point I'm ready to just beat the game and enjoy it and move on until DQXII.
Hopefully as long as DQXII is aiming at Switch 2 hardware it should look really nice.