Hearing the trees creaking and the bushes blowing in the breeze helped me truly appreciate the incredible audio design.
Your mileage may vary, but I prefer not to play games with headphones on, but with the Switch there’s really no excuse. In fact, something I wasn’t expecting to discover was a new appreciation for the audio design. It feels at home, and it quickly became my “couple of hours a night while the TV was occupied” game. That said, playing with the console in your hands is a joy. Coupled with the general age of the game, and the lower resolution textures, and these moments are the worst parts of an otherwise fantastic game. While The Witcher 3 on Switch has a steady 30fps (or thereabouts as best I could see), the moments where you’re not in control seem like they’re in slow motion. Now onto the only other major negative: the cut-scenes. It can still look gorgeous when the phenomenal lighting catches things just right, but know that you’ll appreciate the game far more in handheld mode than you will in docked mode. Blowing it up to 42 inches and beyond the camera looks like it’s been smeared in vaseline, and while it’s playable, if you’ve ever played it before, it’s very off-putting. Let’s get this out of the way up front, however: I think this version of The Witcher 3 is designed to be played in handheld mode. But sometimes… sometimes you have to say “fair enough, you win.” The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt remains a masterpiece, and that it works as well as it does on Switch is, to someone who doesn’t make games for a living, baffling. I’ve listened to people say that 2016’s Doom is “fine” on Switch, while shivering thinking of playing that amazing game at 30 frames per second.
I have seen critiques of games ported to Switch that say things like “It’s not great but hey at least it’s on Switch!” and shuddered. Sometimes, you’ve just got to eat humble pie. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt originally came out in 2015, and was awarded a score of 9/10 on PS4 by Adam Cook. Switch Re:port covers the Nintendo Switch port/version of a game newly released on the platform.
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