It is also available on Windows PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4. The Outer Worlds will be released on June 5 on Nintendo Switch. But this release is a perfectly playable - and now portable - version of one of the best games of last year. It helps if you don’t directly compare The Outer Worlds on Nintendo Switch to how it looks and runs on other systems. I went with the latter option and found the extra precision to be tremendously useful when lining up longer-range shots. The gyroscopic aiming even lets you specify whether you want it on all the time, or just when you’re aiming down-sights. This works in handheld and docked modes, as long as you’re using the Joy-Cons or a Switch Pro Controller. While the other console versions rely on a healthy dose of auto-aim, the Switch layers in the ability to make slight aiming adjustments by tilting the Joy-Cons. The Switch version brings another slight benefit as well: gyroscopic aiming, which means you get to use the motion control of the Joy-Cons to aim your weapons. Detail will spring in once you get close enough to talk to someone, but you’ll have to rely on a lot of general shapes and name pop-ups to indicate if you’ve found the right person before that happens. This moon sign, found outside the first major town you reach, is a good example of the sort of blurriness you can expect: Image: Obsidian/Private Division via PolygonĬharacters themselves are also extremely muddled when viewed from just a few feet away. Unfortunately the only way to appreciate them on the Switch is to really get up on top of them until the high resolution textures pop into view. The world-building details in the environment, seen in various wanted posters and billboards scattered throughout the planets you visit, were clearly designed with a lot of love. The most obvious change from existing versions of the game, in both cases, is an enormous drop in texture quality. The game is locked to 720p when played in portable mode, but the resolution increases to 1080p while docked. The Nintendo Switch port of The Outer Worlds contains all of the content and voice-acting of the original release, but some trade-offs had to be made to get the game to run on the hardware. How well does it withstand the jump to Nintendo’s graphically underpowered quasi-handheld? The Outer Worlds arrives on Switch just six months after its premiere on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. Use a variety of unique gadgets to probe your surroundings, track down mysterious signals, decipher ancient alien writing, and roast the perfect marshmallow.Miraculous ports of games like The Witcher 3 and Skyrim have made it clear that the Switch can handle large, open-world games … so long as folks are OK with a loss of resolution. Strap on your hiking boots, check your oxygen levels, and get ready to venture into space. Every secret is guarded by hazardous environments and natural catastrophes. Visit an underground city of before it’s swallowed by sand, or explore the surface of a planet as it crumbles beneath your feet. The planets of Outer Wilds are packed with hidden locations that change with the passage of time. What lurks in the heart of the ominous Dark Bramble? Who built the alien ruins on the Moon? Can the endless time loop be stopped? Answers await you in the most dangerous reaches of space. You’re the newest recruit of Outer Wilds Ventures, a fledgling space program searching for answers in a strange, constantly evolving solar system. Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
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