There are plenty of settings just for this, however, so you should be able to find the sensitivity settings that suit you best.Īnd so, despite the very noticeable visual downgrades, this is still the same game as before. As I said, this is not a game with pure action as the main focus, so I chose instead to play with aim support, especially when using the small and low sticks on the Joy-Cons. It can be a nice addition when it works, but I found it rather inaccurate here. And nevertheless, while I did encounter these problems I was still quickly back into the story, talking with entertaining companions, and traveling between planets.Īnother Switch-focused addition is support for aiming with the motion controls that are built into the Joy-Cons and Pro Controller. In any case, these titles all have the excuse of being games with their roots in generations even older than Xbox One and PlayStation 4, so we have to keep our expectations reasonably realistic. Could it be that I'm also a little spoiled with excellent conversions of Metro: Redux, Alien: Isolation, Dark Souls: Remastered and even The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt also got a lot of graphical downgrades, but it's also a game of significantly greater magnitude. It wasn't the most engaging shooter on an Xbox One X, and it hasn't got any better on the Nintendo Switch. Much has been trimmed down in the hope of being able to remain stable while we shoot robbers or talk our way through settlements, but this is still not enough to create a seamless gameplay experience. Soil, plants and some costumes are incredibly poor when it comes to detail, but this too can vary. General objects, models and textures have also undergone substantial downgrades. Also, throw in an aggressive aliasing technique and you'll understand why the image was very blurry. In the game's more open areas, such as the plains outside Edgewater, I quickly lost detail and objects far away looked smeared together into pastel-coloured shapes, and this was still playing docked. This is a popular technique, and it feels very prominent here. But this is simply just a goal for the dynamic resolution, which allows the game to regulate its internal sharpness and clarity as needed. Publisher Private Division said it aimed at 1080p with the console docked under the TV, and then 720p in portable, which sounds excellent. The most noticeable hit that the game has taken on Nintendo Switch is the resolution. Having made your character and then played through a tutorialised introduction, you are then, for the most part, free to explore and find your place in this anti-capitalist satire where the corporations have run amok and everything has a catchphrase. You're rescued by the rebel scientist Phineas Welles in the hope of being able to correct the chaos that has spread among the various planets during the 60 years that you've spent on ice. Just like in the original version, you play as a survivor aboard a ship called Hope a huge vessel sent as part of the second wave of the colonisation of the Halcyon system. Deep lore, a wide range of abilities, personable companions, branching dialogue, and the various factions that you can interact come together to create the kind of experience that we haven't seen much of today as the AAA industry often has a slightly more streamlined view on modern role-playing games. This means lots of freedom in terms of how you shape your character and there are often several different solutions to any problem that emerges during your adventure. So let's see how well they have succeeded.įor those who may have missed our review of The Outer Worlds last year, this is a first-person role-playing game trying to capture the spirit of Fallout: New Vegas, but this time on a different planet. Next up, thanks to Virtuos, Obsidian Entertainment has managed to bring one of last year's most appreciated role-playing games to a platform that we can keep in our (deepest) pockets and play on the go. Some developers have managed to impress despite making big compromises, and others have trimmed a little too much for their own good. It's interesting to see what gets included and the condition it ends up in, every time a game meant for more capable hardware is squeezed down onto Nintendo's hybrid console.
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