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The mobile/VR version of this were not good, and the fact that it has the low battery mode again leads me to believe this is a port of that version, so not a port of the PC/Console versions. So id absolutely wait for hands on/reviews for this one.
It's a great game, but the mobile versions are not.

Funny how the Red Dead upgrade, measured with the Skyrim one.

@PJOReilly
The fact that they thought that higher resolution, on some of those terrible textures, over keeping what was there and doubling the framerate was the way to go, just shoes how far that studio has fallen.
The reliance on that 20 year old engine that doesnt work in the modern day is making them a laughing stock.
Also lets not forget that this piece of ***** is £52.99 if you dont own previous versions, has skyrim ever cost more in its 14 years on sale???

@JohnnyMind
I wouldn't really call it a FPS, it is first person, and it does have shooting, but it's a narrative driven immersive sim/RPG at heart.

Original dev was "Looking Glass Technologies" not "Looking Light Studios" as the article says.

@AussieMcBucket
It' admiral to continue to optimise after release??? Here's an idea, optimize it before you ask for my money!! Why are they releasing it unfinished with a poor framerate, if they can "just fix it later"? That's the literal definition of a unfinished product that is not ready for release.

@KoopaTheGamer
They really are two different things though. Steamdeck is a actual x86 PC, with the pro's and con's that come with that (more power, less battery life, more fiddling and manual setup as it's a PC), whilst the Switch and Switch 2 are ARM based systems, so essentially phones/tablets with built in controls, and this also has pro's and con's (weaker hardware, better theoretical battery life if they were the same capacity, but they are not).
It's why these ports are quite interesting as x86 and ARM are nothing alike and these games need a big re-write to work at all.

Having "Lots of tedious quest design" as a negative, but still giving it a 8 is a little weird. If playing the game the way its designed is tedious, why the 8?
I am a little interested in this, but in all honestly i havent liked any of these "new" Assassins Creed games, and this one doesn't seem to be doing anything different, and from the reviewers own opinion it's "tedious".
Probably pick it up when it drops below £10.

@JohnnyMind
I feel old systems need it, more so on the TV than the handheld screen though. A 240p NES image blown up to 4K on a 65inch screen its real chunky, i was playing it on a 13inch CRT back in the day.
I use CRT shaders in emulation all the time, it looks better on a large flatscreen as these games were arted with the scanlines in mind originally.

@Dr_Lugae
Just shows that they review the games "as is" as they should, there fanboy-ism shouldn't factor into whether a game is any good or not. As a gamer who has all the consoles and and a PC, i appreciate the honesty and it allows me to spend my money elsewhere. ( i should add ive never been a Pokemon fan, but the releases have got lazier and lazier over the last 10 years, whilst sales have increased).

Shame, i wish people would vote with their wallets and not pay for this sort of low effort trash.

Was interested, but the live tests have done nothing for me, so it's gonna be a pass here.

Ethernet has always been way faster for me (im on gigabit fibre), but the WiFi can only ever get to around 350Mb/s, so i always dock for downloads more than a GB or so.
Ill add though that the WiFi is far, far better than Switch 1.

I picked up the game key card on Amazon UK a month or so ago for about £19.

Nintendo has patched it? It's not a Nintendo game, they published it, and it is of course a Nintendo IP, but it's "AAA Game Studios" who actually developed it, so would also be the people patching it.
Maybe a bit pedantic, but it annoys me when people say something is a Nintendo game when it actually isn't, as they do publish games they don't make also.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizards_%26_Warriors
My bad, was thinking of this.

@HammerGalladeBro
I take it back, im confusing it with another NES game that was made by RARE.

@HammerGalladeBro
I mean, it means both right? This is why i hate puns.

It plays badly if i recall. Rare has some games that could come to Switch, this isnt one i wanted.

This is people voting with their wallets, and im completely here for it. The game released in a terrible technical state, especially on PC. Those initial sales are because of the insane people who pre-order games without any prior knowledge as to the quality. As soon as said quality was revealed, people looked at reviews and performance and said no thanks, ill keep my money.

Typo in article, its "Edmund" not "Admund".

@Bunkerneath
Sounds similar to the Mudrunner games, where the challenge/fun is just getting from A to B safely, a little like Death Stranding but for vehicles. Navigating ravines, rivers, steep hills, maybe having to use a tow rope, etc.
I'm interested as Art Of Rally was a really great game (disclosure i played on PC and Steamdeck, not Switch).

@Gamer_Griff
More lean code, means less ways for bugs to appear, and better optimization or compression, which could also improve load times. In code, yes less code to do the same thing is always preferable.

@Kraven
lol, yeah. I bought it on Amazon UK a couple of weeks back for £50, today its already down to £40.

Latest patch has actually shrunk the file size, its down to 19.2GB now, down from 21.4GB.

@Divide_and_Wander
Personally i have had more than a dozen hard crashes back to the OS, but i havent had any since the last patch, so hopefully this patch is further progression and not a regression in that regard.

@BaldB3lper78
the stand allows vertical standing, then just use joycons or pro controller wirelessly.

"Occasionally difficult to keep track of the action" The bain of all console/computer pinball games unfortunately, turns out depth percerption and seeing in 3D is kinda important for a lot of things.

@Glasso
Meh, much more looking forward to this than i was Silksong, while Hollow Knight is good, it's massively overrated.

@rvcolem1
Not to mention you play as a different character, with a new story, just that some of the supporting cast are returning, main character is completely new to the series.

@JayJ
Blame Nintendo, they are still not handing out dev kits, and just telling devs to "make it for switch and use backwards compatibility to make it work on switch 2".

@Yalloo
Yeah, you didnt read it, it works with switch, PC, even PS3, and there are separate xbox versions too.

Ill be grabbing one of these for clone hero. My 6 button Guitar Hero Live Guitars are all nearly dead at this point (build quality of those is bad, but i do love the 2 rows of 3 button layout, so its gonna be a re-learning curve).

@OorWullie
Yeah, it's my favourite. Leo is pretty decent too, but i couldn't ever get into either of the Final games, maybe i should revisit the PS2 version.

This was great on PS1, and a game i still revisit pretty regularly via emulation, so i'm totally down for a physical of this.

Never played the kickstart game, but i did play a ton of ATV Simulator by Codemasters on my speccy, man that game was hard.

Man this title theme brings back memories.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pja9Y7JIJBg

Speaking of which, id love to see a Joe Danger collection on switch.

Loved "Kickstart" as a kid, that love is what got me into the Trials games, so keeping a eye on this.

@Waxifari
Ha, i missed that, Wave Race 64 is one of the best games ever made, i have played it pretty much weekly for decades. Just did a expert 7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7 last night on the switch 2 n64 app.

Ooh yes please, count me in. And for anyone else interested in this who hasn't played it, I highly recommend "New Star GP" it's really good and looks somewhat similar to this, but much more arcadey.
https://www.nintendolife.com/games/switch-eshop/new_star_gp

@Switching
All the console versions and the PC one are better than switch 2, only console the switch 2 version is better than is the switch 1 version.
That's not to knock it, 1080p 60 on a handheld is great, but lets not pretend that is still not the worst way to play it.

@thenikdavies
Free 2 pay games are free to play online, no sub needed, as Nintendo takes a cut of all in game purchases.

@KayFiOS
Man, a spiritual successor to diddy Kong would be awesome, that game was so much better than Mario Kart 64 that its actually quite embarrassing.
As for this remake, i'm gonna just assume it's budgetary, they haven't got the funds to produce a new game from scratch, and touching this up instead is far cheaper and they are hoping it gets some money coming in. Cause there has to be a reason for this, as @SBandy1 said, your third game being a remaster of your first isn't a good look, and sorta suspicious.

I'm kinda torn on this, I mean its not a bad game, and did have some issues that could be fixed in this new version, but to remaster a game that's only eight years old doesn't sit well with me.

@soimun
Yeah, i downloaded it for the first time a few hours ago and it was 31GB ish, went to start it just now and it prompts to download the switch 2 version from the eshop for 75GB and that i can delete the switch 1 version now. So its like 105GB in order to get this game for me today, pretty insane.

Just finished this demo, really enjoyed it. Reminds me of classic Zelda and Square games, specifically Secret Of Mana, but with that HD-2D style. Colour me very interested in this.

@personauser93
There are tons of switch games that are only stereo including first party Nintendo ones. Devs being lazy and porting/designing to the handheld aspect, which is obviously only stereo, and ignoring docked players connected to AVR equipment.

@MontyCircus
Although that is a well known rule, it's actually wrong more than it's right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7hYEijfFF8
A segment from the British show QI about this very subject.

Why cant I put L and R on ZL and ZR? That seems like a massive oversite, they are both digital buttons and I find the triggers to be far more comfortable.