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I know a little bit out of sync this week but that review of Sparks of Hope really took a lot out of me over the last week. So we're not really back to our regular content but something came out today on Switch that I was actually looking forward to and hasn't been talked about much on this channel. A brand new third party port of a major game that I thought could and should run pretty well on Switch. After all it's not like the game we're going to be talking about here is really that you know of a massive looking great looking game. We've seen games on Switch that look on par with this on other systems obviously maybe not at the same resolution or frame rate but still visually speaking it didn't really look like something that was beyond the capabilities of Switch and yes I'm happy this game is here locally and not through a cloud version. We're talking about Alan Wake remastered. So we're released on Switch today and I've been busy watching you know opinions on it and and and watching analysis and all these videos and it turns out that Alan Wake remastered is bad. It's really bad on Switch. One I think we're long past the days of needing to wait for ports. Look Switch has been on the market now for almost six years. It's been the market leader for at least three and we're at this point that getting a port of a game that clearly looks like it should be able to run on Switch getting it this late after the original release on other platforms is starting to become a little less excusable and if you're going to say well you know other games that aren't major Nintendo IPs don't sell on Switch return to Monkey Island. Well yes technically a Switch exclusive at least for now is obviously not some major Nintendo game. It's a third-party game and guess what it is the fastest selling game in the entire franchise and we have actually seen this happen a few times with third-party games that actually put in effort Doom Eternal and Doom 2016 both sold decently well on Switch. We have seen Mortal Kombat 11 do decent sales on Switch. So third-party ports, multi-platform games can do well on Switch if you treat the Switch and the Switch audience with respect and do a high quality port. Trust me Switch owners are well aware we're not going to maybe get that 60 FPS. We're not going to maybe get that full 1080p resolution or all that but we do have some expectations of at least a quality port and we can tell with Alan Wake remastered it is not that. The frame rate is all over the place it dips down into the single digits at times and the textures and the resolution dumping of this game both in handheld and in docked mode even if you're playing on a smaller screen in docked mode is very very bad. We're talking arc survival evolved level of badness with the port and the thing is Alan Wake remastered on other platforms isn't exactly considered one of the best-looking games there is it is generally considered to be well just okay in terms of modern day visuals but to be expected it's a remaster of an older game and it's strange because it sort of feels like if they would have just ported the original Alan Wake instead of the remaster it's almost as if that would have looked even better than what we ended up with this final product on Switch and it just seems a little bit excuse inexcusable. Now look it's one thing that a lot of obviously you know Switch haters Nintendo haters are sort of dancing on Switch today because of this game oh the Switch look how bad this game runs it's so weak it can't even run Alan Wake remastered at a decent looking resolution and frame rate a decent looking textures and to be fair they're not wrong but it ain't because of the Switch's power again the original Alan Wake looks better than this Alan Wake remaster on Switch and ran on significantly worse hardware this is the case of a horrendous port and we can't just point to whatever company was hired to do this port we also have to look at the parent studio and go why did you let the game come out and Switch in this state there are many things you could have done instead of dumping textures down to like insanely low resolutions to the point that it looks like you're playing a game from the PS1 era at times it is that bad it is horrendous there are times the game looks okay certain indoor shots certain very specific issues where oh the game remembers that it can actually look decent we have seen better looking games in this on Switch with this visual style look there are other ways it could have been done as an example cut back on the foil the foliage like you know you don't need a billion bushes and blades of grass for this game to work you can cut back on it a little bit keep the better textures the better frame rates and have less issues the character models are dumping down the tree models are just an embarrassment they're making Pokemon trees look good and we all know that Pokemon tree models aren't exactly great and suddenly they look amazing compared to these tree models it's I don't understand why companies are choosing to treat Switch like it is a an afterthought I mean let's just be honest not only is this port extremely late and not only are they 20% off at launch but still significantly more expensive than other platforms today we've sort of got accustomed to that but it doesn't make it right but it's a horrendous port it's bad and I don't like calling this out because it just makes other companies feel like maybe it's not even worth us bringing our games over but if you're gonna bring a game over respect the audience this game feels like a massive disrespect to the Switch audience that otherwise might have been pretty accepting of this game this game could have gone on to sell 500,000 copies maybe even coming close to a million copies on Switch if it was a well done port and they charge like about 20 bucks for it you know you have 20 dollars you have a really well done port we tend to respect that when a developer or a porting company respects the Switch audience we tend to respect them back look at all the port jobs that panic button is done and how much support that's gotten from a lot of Nintendo Switch owners over the years even tantalists and some of the port jobs they've done and the support Switch owners have given those games over the years then you see Alan Wake remastered and you go what the hell was even the point this game shouldn't exist on Switch at least not in this state I'd rather have the original game ported over or emulated on Switch because let's just be honest Switch destroys the original hardware that Alan Wake was on this is an embarrassment and it almost makes the game unenjoyable I'm gonna be frank it makes the game unenjoyable and that is extremely unfortunate because this could have been so much more so naturally I'm really disappointed and I hope that other companies don't look at this and go well we're just not going to release games on Switch maybe just put some care into your port actually give a crap I'll give you another example of a port we get every single year mba2k right if factually looks significantly worse on Switch than other platforms of course but the frame rate is consistent and the visual downgrades are within reason it turns out that mba2k on Switch is still for the most part a pretty quality experience it shows that 2k actually cares about the Switch version of their game you know when we got the Witcher 3 of course it looks worse than other versions but you could tell they actually cared about the Switch audience to give us the best possible version this does not feel like the best possible version on Switch I refuse to believe that the Switch is hardware this is the best you can do I we've seen too many games that are so much better than this so I'm sorry it's a bit of a negative one today but man I'm kind of bummed out because I really wanted to play this on Switch I know I can play it on other platforms and play it for much cheaper it still doesn't change the fact that Switch is my preferred platform and I would have loved to play it here instead anyways folks you guys let me know what you think about this Alan Wake situation and third-party Nintendo Switch ports in general down in the comments below I am Nathan DeRobo Jance from NintendoProm, I want to thank all you guys for tuning in and I'll catch you in the next video