 You know what's funny? When I started my YouTube career, or at least when I started making Nintendo Switch stuff, one of the things I really got popular for was making fun of Nintendo Switch games, or at least leaning into the goofing gaff that when we got a port on Switch, it was awful, but it really wasn't the case as a whole. And it's only once in a while we truly get a botched one. We just took a look at Alan Wake in that video I mentioned Ark, and how that was the worst Nintendo Switch port we'd ever seen. I made a video on it back in the day laughing at it. I think I was actually sick that day, but I was acting so much more sick and pretending that this terrible version of Ark was giving me pneumonia. But I have to give props to the developers of Ark, because not only did they go away and spend four years completely rebuilding Ark in Unreal Engine 4, they hit me up and asked me if I wanted to make a video for them. You people at Ark want to hire the guy that laughed all over your first version of the game to look at the new one? I mean, you gotta be pretty confident in it at that point, right? So I'm gonna take a look at it. It has been completely overhauled and the Ultimate Survivor Edition has the base game and all major expansion packs. Oh, and if you bought this before like I did, the new base game is a free upgrade with save data carrying over. So if you did manage to play it before, you can keep playing from where you left off. I really do want to compare my first review and all the gripes I had with the game to how this game looks now. And I ain't gonna be going easy just because I'm getting paid, believe me. I gotta be honest, the character creation hasn't changed much. All you can really do is just make body parts bigger or smaller. So we're just gonna rock the default. Okay, this is definitely better. I'm sorry, I'm a little speechless. This honestly is light years better than what I played several years ago. One of the first things I noticed in like 2018 was when you loaded into a game, you could literally watch everything slowly load into the game. Even the character models looking like Polygon N64 versions of what they're supposed to be. But no, this is super smooth. Actually, it's really quick too. I just booted up and here I am in the game. And the level of detail in this compared to the previous version, okay, I'm pretty impressed. Weirdly, an issue I had in the first game was when you looked at the water, there was a weird reflection on either side. And I thought that was a switch glitch, but it's happening again here in this revamped version. So I quickly just went to my PC and bought the game again, because I wanted to do my research properly. And sure enough, it's in that version too. So this is just something that happens within arc being harsh on that with the switch port initially was probably unfair. And people really like this game. The last time I was mean to it, a lot of people said, you just don't understand how to play the game and fair. Yeah, that was actually a fair critique. Obviously the game not running and looking good was also a fair critique. Otherwise, the developers wouldn't have completely scrapped it and re-hauled it. Now that I've been playing arc more and I actually like it, I do cringe a little. One of the things I said was it's too dark at night. It's just like the game has been turned off. You can't see anything. It's a survival game and it's night. If you don't build a fire or some sort of light source, you ain't gonna see anything. That's fairly realistic. 2018 woodhawker. I'm actually understanding this game a lot more this time around. I'm immediately going to work getting materials and leveling up and crafting things like a pickaxe and I'm making things like a hut and a torch and a fireplace, you know, like a crafting survival game. I really didn't get this game the first time I played. And I'll tell you why I hadn't even played Minecraft when I played arc for the first time. I fell in love with Minecraft maybe a year or two after that. And from there, I ended up getting really into the genre with No Man's Sky being one of my favorite games. I probably shouldn't start listing other games that aren't arc in a video where I'm getting paid to talk about arc, but my point is now I kind of really like survival games and I'm getting this a lot more now. All right. Well, they still have that random farting sound. Oh, wait. Oh, that's actually me sh**ing on the ground. Oh! I made so much fun of that sound effect the first time I played the game. I mean, it is a very funny sound effect. I feel like you can do better. What was that sound effect? Oh, oh. Okay, so I'm getting a little carried away now. I'm going to work building my shelter and just basically trying to survive. Last time, one of the big things I complained about, well, there was a lot. There was frame rates and then there was trees. When I would like walk closer or further away from trees in the game, they would phase in and out of existence. Shadows would just disappear right in front of your face. If you took a couple steps back, they would reappear. All of those problems are fixed and the frames are super smooth. This is extremely playable. There's nothing funny to say here. It's just a stable, fun way to play the game. I am still going to make the video funny and fun so don't go anywhere. Oh, and the game looked worse in handheld mode than it did on the TV. I thought squishing it down on the handheld screen would make it look better, but nope. However, I played it handheld a little bit before making this video. Sorry, I'm lying a little bit to you guys. You did a good job. I'm so impressed by this. Not just so much the fact that they did it. I could have gone back in time and told you this was possible, just that they took the time to do it. I really admire that. They didn't have to. They could have just left it the way it was, but they wanted to fix it. So when you boot up the game, you'll instantly see there's new cinematic story content to further expand the narrative of the game. And there's also a new dinosaur discovery experience. I haven't played this, but it's for kids. It lets them explore the island without the violence or the complex mechanics. You can use a single joy con with simplified controls. When you unlock dinos, you can learn real facts about them as you complete missions. Oh my God. That's really cute, actually. I didn't know that. I'm reading that now. I have been playing as this survivor now for a while. I actually am doing pretty well. I haven't even died yet. I remember the first time I tried playing this game, I would die as I spawned. To either a dinosaur in the air or there was one time I clipped into a cabin when I spawned in and I was stuck and I literally had to restart the game. This time, because the game plays so well, I just loaded it up and started collecting, crafting, building, and now I have a little home, a hut. I even just punched a dinosaur in the face and knocked it out cold, which you might think is a terrible thing to do. And it reminds me of Arnold Schwarzenegger in that movie Jingle All the Way, where he punches a deer in the face. But apparently I was supposed to do that and then feed it a bunch of berries to tame it and now it's my friend and I crafted a saddle and now I'm riding it around like a horse. I have a dinosaur horse. I also found this weird structure and I have no idea what it's about. Apparently, there's a lot of things to do in this game and even boss battles, but I'm literally, I am fine on my island. I'm very scared and alone. I'm getting very carried away. Like, I honestly am. There's a lot more to this game that I was supposed to play like the scorched earth DLC, which is much harder because every time I spawn in, the sun is beating down and I'm instantly burning alive and it took me about seven deaths to realize I'm supposed to rush to water. I tried everything like building a shelter really quickly. I was hoping that that would help cover me from the sun. No, you just find water. And now that I know that and I've had some time to cool off, I've started another playthrough now on this DLC, building another cabin and now I'm getting sucked in and starting this whole process all over again. I just got to stop because I haven't even played online yet. This is all the single player mode. There's an online mode, which means I would need people to play online with. That'll do. Oh, you're so beefy. Hey, I modeled after real life. Am I right? But I have a guy. I have a guy. I have a guy. He has a guy. I have a guy. I have a guy. I need to figure out how to invert the controls. Oh, you play inverted. I do. I am one of those people. I'm sorry. Sorry, I didn't know he was like this before I invited him to be in the video. Hello. I'm inverting my controls right now. How do I wave to you? Okay, don't. Hey, don't punch me. I'm still learning right now because I've only ever played this on PC, but I'm very happy that I can play it on Switch now because I can bring art with me on the go. Do you want my poop? You can take my poop if you want it. I'll take it as a present. Yeah, take my poop as a present. I can see nothing right now. I know. God, is this arc survival evolved or more like dark survival evolved, right guys? I could come look for you with my torch. I'm here. Do you see my light? Do you see my guiding light? I see your light. Oh my god, there's a one. King? King? Where are you? King? King! You looked so fine. You are so... I can't. King, I just pooped for you. I just pooped for you if you want it. King, thank god I'm hungry. Don't creep towards it like that. I don't like the way you snuck towards the poop. I was hungry. Oh, by the way, we can make a tribe. Oh, I love to make a tribe. Yes, tribe of ham. Welcome to the tribe. Is this you here? Who is this? That's not me. That's me, Goody! Oh my god, you look awful. Can you come up with... It looks so good. As someone who has played 700 hours of this game, what do you make of the switchport? And I think it's pretty good. I'm going to shoot this bird out of the sky. Take the shot. Let the arrow be your guiding light. I miss. You'll get the next one. Is that a pterodon? You'll get the next one. He's landing. King, I punched it. Oh my god, you did. Oh god, King! King it! King, I'm going to die next. King, it ate me. King, I'm going to die next. Oh, I should probably find you and help you, right? I'm dead. Yeah. Level 85? It was a dimorphodon. That's what it was. I'm going to leave. I'm going to put the door over here where I'm standing right now. I love that. I'm going to go hunting. Happy hunting, King. Thank you. I see a giant turtle. I would turn around now and like run. No, no, no. Next shot. Next shot. There's two. So yeah, so they're loyal to each other. So if you try to hurt one... Oh, no, I feel bad. Now I'm going to have to kill them both so the one doesn't have to live with it. That's more hide for us, though, isn't it? It's pretty bloody, so it's dead. Now that one, I don't know what level that one is. That one's red. I'm about to die. I found him. Oh my god! Dude, I was about to pass out. I love you, YouTube. Comment, like, and subscribe. My god, dude. I can't see where I am. The stars are beautiful, though. The stars are so pretty. Is that Ursa Major? You're inside? My god, look at you. Every time I see you, you creep me out so much. I'm dragging him somewhere. It doesn't look right from here. We're going for a little swim. Oh, by the way, don't eat them. What is that? Who is that? What is that? What is that? They're a chicken. Oh, my god. What is happening? Ham, can you get back here? I don't like the way this chicken is looking at us. I'm scared. I'm scared. I'm scared. I'm scared. I'm scared. I'm over-encumbered, and I would love to put this crate down. I would do anything to put this crate down. I also can't get into this house because I'm over-encumbered, and Ham won't come and bite me to the tribe. I wouldn't be back in, like, 20 seconds. Oh my god. One, two, three, 17, 18, 19, 20. Get him. I'm here. I'm here. I'm here. I'm here. Get him. Don't shoot me. Move away from me. You just defecated on me. I saw that. Buddy, you're fine. You're good. Are you sure he's good? You're good. I don't think he's good, man. I feel like we did a lot of good here. We've made a nice house. I am the Hunter Provider who found us a lot of meat. You are Bob the Builder, and I think we all did pretty good. What am I? Okay, you know what? Man, I just feel like that was not necessary. Done. Hey. Oh my god. Very good. Very good. Very good. Very good. The door's out there. Yep. See you later, boys. Just keep going. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, just open that door and just, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. See you, buddy. I kicked them out of my house because one of them kept farting, and I didn't know which one, but it did sound exactly like this sound. So apparently the game's more accurate than I thought. Even though while making this video, I've played three separate times in three different ways, and each time I got to the point where I'd made shelter and I had food and clothes and then stopped to play another playthrough, I've really enjoyed all of them. There is actually something of that too. Like I feel like every fresh Minecraft save is more exciting than when you're 50 hours into the game. There's something about the starting a new character and like building it all up from scratch and the exploration of a new place. It's so crazy to me that they took the worst Nintendo Switch game. There is an argument to be made that maybe it is still WWE 2K18 or Alan Wake as I think it is now, but I do think that arc was pretty bad, but they took that and now it's one of the best. It takes the experience of a game grander than something that maybe should technically work on the console, and now it just does do that. It works. Someone is calling me and we're gonna find out who it is right now at the end of this random video. Hello? Screwed is that you? Even if you're like me and you'd never played this game before, this is a great way to play it for the first time now. And if you're like him, who played it for like 700 hours, even he said as he sat here playing it handheld with us, this is a really solid way to play the game. Thank you arc for sponsoring the video, but also thank you for fixing the game. And if you want to get the game, there'll be a link down below. It will directly support the channel, but also remember, if you bought this game at any point before, dive back into it, update it for free and play it now. It's they fixed it. I really do have to start. I'm gonna start a new play. No, I'm gonna do the first one. I'm gonna get back into my first playthrough because I just built the raft and I'm trying to get tree sap. I didn't talk about this. I built a fishing rod and a chair to fish, but then it's like, I unlocked the tree sapping thing, but then it's like to make it, you need like this material. I don't know what that material is. I just want to fish. I'm gonna go fish. I'm gonna go fish. I'm gonna calm down. I'm gonna go fish.