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Nintendo's free Switch 2 upgrades for key Switch 1 titles are remasters in all but name


When Nintendo fully revealed Switch 2, it also announced the existence of 'Switch 2 Editions' - enhanced versions of ex…

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening and Echoes of Wisdom are rightly considered to be beautifully well designed games, but performance is generally problematic, bouncing between 30fps and 60fps depending on load - classic "double buffer v-sync" behaviour. The quality of the art design marries up perfectly with the increased resolution in both handheld and docked play while the timeless gameplay makes this as good a buy today as it was when it first released. On paper, the boost from native 1080p to full 4K at a consistent 60 frames per second sounds great, except that the somewhat generic, flat background artwork style sees little gain from the quadruple increase in pixel count.

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