It does help the port maintain a serviceable level of image quality, but textures are washed out and muddy, and edges are remarkably jagged in docked. Graphical fidelity was obviously scaled back to get Torchlight III to even function on the Switch, yet unlike other more animated and cartoonish games like Dauntless, Torchlight III’s art-style isn’t enough to paper over the deficits. Mix in the various bugs, such as whole areas refusing to load (even while offline), and it’s clear the port wasn’t ready for release. For a game with as many loading screens as Torchlight III you’d assume load times would have been a priority, but you’ll spend more time waiting to play than actually playing. Menus take forever to load, and hopping between Torchlight III’s various instances can take upwards of a full minute. Torchlight III on the Switch frequently freezes and stalls out, leading to cheap deaths and frustrating losses. The game chugs in both handheld and docked modes. Echtra Games were facing an uphill battle, but I still can’t shake the feeling they gave up on this port before reaching the summit. Part of this of course has to to do with the Switch’s hardware: Torchlight III requires a quad-core CPU that can at least reach 2.5 Ghz, and the stock Switch CPU barely hits 2.0 Ghz on a good day. While some could argue that’s the case for Torchlight III overall, the Switch port does not hold up well. Torchlight III on the Nintendo Switch is a mediocre port that was clearly pulled from the oven too soon. Torchlight III’s port came out a little over a week after the game left early access, and it shows. The upcoming Apex Legends port is still in development, despite EA saying previously it would arrive around this time. The Outer Worlds was available for roughly eight months before its Switch port saw the light of day. CD Projekt Red’s blockbuster hit The Witcher 3 made its way to the Switch nearly four years after the game first game out. Nintendo Switch versions of popular new games tend to launch well after initial release.
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