"8.5 out of 10"
Shows 7.5 Twerking Tingles

The sad thing is that from a purely computational perspective, the Switch has enough power to run this game at 60fps as it did with Mario Odyssey, it's just that this game in particular has a memory leak issue which causes it to run really badly when assets are loaded in. Memory leak because, even when you enter, say, a small room where the GPU and CPU should have no problem keeping up, the framerate still drops because it still has unnecessary assets loaded in, getting worse each time you enter and exit a house repeatedly. Being a memory issue, it also noticably improves performance to have the game run off of internal storage as it is the fastest medium for Switch.

"I'll never get to experience the haptic feedback of a chicken's wing flapping now."


You sounded so hurt when you said that. It made me laugh.

7:20 That's 7.5/10, but take that down anyway

I like that the art style isn’t just a 3D imitation of the 2D graphics, it went for a pretty bold and unique style and there was a lot of effort put into the art direction. It’s charming and I like how everything has sorta a tactile nature to it, I feel like I could touch these little models and I know what they’d feel like.

I'll never understand why they replaced the photographer's house instead of just adding Dampé's shack somewhere else.

"The sound design is great"
stock pot smashing sounds in the distance

That is the most satisfying sound effect I've ever heard

The puzzle with the chess pieces is actually really good: they always make an L-turn, just like the knight piece in a regular match of chess.

The horse puzzle moves exactly as a Knight piece does in chess, and the direction it will leap in is always the way it is facing, that would be a good puzzle but it assumes outside knowledge that is never told to the player in game.

I love the art style but man the opening and ending cut scenes are so unbelievably beautiful that I wish they would do a Classic Zelda game in that hand drawn art style

I would have loved to see full 360° movement like in A Link between Worlds. This is such a missed opportunity

Nerrel I love ya but not being able to solve the chess horse puzzle is on you buddy

A new video, finally. Such an underrated channel!

I really, REALLY love the art style they went with for this game. It’s such a playful, tongue in cheek game already, and it looking like it does is a fantastic compliment.

That chess piece puzzle was clever. I loved it.

0:53 to 1:16 is the exact reason so many pokemon fans are upset with the Diamond and Pearl remakes. From the material we've seen so far, the visuals absolutely look phoned in. The character sprites are the biggest issue of contention, and a lot of people defend them by saying "the originals were chibi too, so you should like them because they're being faithful." The original models were pixel art representations of a much larger sprite that the game shows you from the beginning, as a sort of contention that it isn't possible on this hardware to have the more detailed full anime looking sprite on screen, so we will substitute it with this abstracted chibi sprite. Many players looked at the original chibi sprite and imagined a more fully realized model, because the game basically tells you to. Not to mention the strange lighting choices and scattered art direction, I think make the remakes visual style fail on every level to compete with the players interpretation of the original pixel art. At least with Link's Awakening, you can tell that there was more time, money, and effort put in to making a highly detailed and beautifully rendered world. Even if it "isn't to your taste", it's a much higher quality execution than the Diamond and Pearl remakes.

Coming back to this video my brain is a little broken realizing that this thing came out all the way back in 2019. Why does it feel like this came out two years ago.

Genuinely excited for our video, genuinely displeased with the rest of today

5:21 SPEEEN