VCG: First Look at Switch 2 running Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom & Link's Awakening (www.youtube.com)

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Nintendo Switch 2 is here, and we're busy testing all of its backwards compatible Switch 1 games. Here, for the first time, you can see how Zelda games Link's Awakening and Echoes of Wisdom run on Switch 2.

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

As much as I loved these games, they are not the ones I would've thought of first for checking them on the Switch 2...

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

these games were notorious for frequent frame drops on switch 1

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Oh, true! I forgot about that. I remember that being an issue with Link's Adventure but not as much for EoW, though.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I've played both and I'd say it's far worse in EoW. And considering even in this Switch 2 video you can still some small stuttering I imagine there's something bad in the game engine itself.

Will be interesting to see the DF comments on this.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Echoes of wisdom actually had a few places that ran like garbage, on release at least. Though that says more about the poor optimization of the game than about hardware

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