I have recently done something unusual: I went to a preview program for a game that is out for almost three years.
I have played about 400 hours Pokémon scarletAccording to my nintendo switch, as it was released in late 2022. It is safe to say that I know the game very well. And yet, when I was invited to preview Pokémon scarlet And Purple But Nintendo switch 2 before the launch of new consoleI happily took an opportunity to watch the three -year -old games which I am already myself. I wanted to find out how much they would improve.
I have a high jank tolerance with sports – it builds a character – but I know well Red And PurpleLacks on original switchIs the lag. The frame rate is … incompatible. There are online connectivity issues. For many people, performance problems overshadhed what a great new generation was Pokémon game. with Nintendo Switch 2 releasedAnd with free performance update with free Red And PurpleIt can change at the end.
Launch Pokémon scarlet On Switch 2 at the office of Pokémon Company International at Washington’s Belleview, I immediately knew where I wanted to go first: Kaesaroya Lake, sometimes called “Lag Lake”, where the Chitrama issues of the Games are the most clear. On the original switch, game In fact Chug when you are on the lake; The frame rate makes a dive, and it struggles to present more than a handful of Pokémon in your immediate surrounding area. Searching for lively open areas and facing Pokémon which is one to populate them Red And PurpleThe greatest strength, but on the switch, the Kaisaroya Lake is dull and empty and the worst and most impossible.
Playing on Switch 2, however, Kaisaroya lake lasted beautifully. There were more Pokémon (and I was immediately earned by a torpedo-like veluza, as it was ever), and whatever lag and I expected to stutter were no one. I said Veluza without any problem. I stumbled on a slow outbreak and sent my clodsire out to auto-fight-no interval. I found a wild your Pokémon and looked at your animation, which I ever saw, looked faster than that. (I was playing in dock mode at a station installed by TPCI, so perhaps the previous one can be credited on TV. But still.)
This was the same case where I went during my 30 -minute demo: a stable and smooth frame rate, quite rapid load time, and some more Pokémon was populating the world. Switch 2 update itself is not a complete overhaul of graphics – the texture of the grass looks as sure as my eyes, for example – but it seems to end the issues of performance that have been drawn Red And Purple Bottom for about three years. It is a noticeable improvement in the world, in fighting, in your raid, and even in the menu.
Is it admirable for a game just to run well? Probably not. I do not pretend to know how sports are done at technical level, or actually at any level, but I know they are not Easy To make. And enjoyed me enough Pokémon scarlet Playing for 400 hours without performing issues is very upset with me. But to feel, to think that if they walk well in the first place, then to think that these games can be very high.
Then, in the last five minutes of my demo, as I awakened in a separate body of water to confirm that it also went on easily, I saw it: between the buizel pods, a shiny, a shiny.
A good part of my 400 hours Red They were spent in shiny hunting, because even though the alternative-color versions of Pokémon are not very difficult because they were in the previous games, I get excited to be unsuccessful every time I see one, without any failure. This is the correct encapsulation of bliss Red And Purple To offer: discovering a lively area and finding something special. Despite knowing this, I caught the bright buizel that it was not my sev file nor to keep me.
Switch 2 updates are sure getting a little late for me Red Save the file, depending on how many hours you are appropriate to play this game. But I myself PurpleAnd I have played a total of two hours of that edition. I didn’t get to see the bright buizel, I realized that I was really excited for a reason to play Purple Finally – I liked the most about these games, in a state that does justice to them.
