There are very rare dips during the most frantic of moments, but by and large you’re going to get extremely smooth performance here. The first game runs at a fairly solid 60 frames per second. It can look a tiny bit blurry in docked mode if you’re playing on a huge telly, but because the Switch’s screen is a 720p display that means they looks crisp as hell when playing in handheld.

Only the PC and Xbox One X enhanced versions of the original game run better than the Switch version, and since the sequel was a Wii U exclusive, this new Switch port is now the best way to play it.īoth games render at 720p, which may disappoint some but this really isn’t a massive problem. The big question here is how well these games run on the Switch, and the short answer is ‘very well’. Many gamers will already be familiar with both games: if you aren’t and want to know more, I recommend reading Simon Parkin’s 2009 review of Bayonetta for Eurogamer and Rich Stanton’s 2014 review of Bayonetta 2 for the Guardian. This isn’t going to be a massive review: these are older games and they’ve been covered to death already.

In that respect I can confirm that yes, yes they are. It’s up to you to investigate the content and tone of these games and decide if they’re suitable for you or any younger gamers in your life: my job is to tell you if they’re actually fun to play. Much like my review of the significantly more questionable Senran Kagura: Estival Versus on PS4, though (don’t click that if you’re at work), I’m going to spare you the morality lesson here. It would be daft, though, not to address the skimpily-dressed elephant in the room: Bayonetta 1 & 2 are very much games that would result in plenty of uncomfortable conversations if they were brand new releases and not ports of games that are nine and four years old respectively.

That’s a discussion for another website, and given it’s an important topic (and rightly so, in my opinion) I’m sure you’ll have no trouble finding said discussion elsewhere before too long. If you ask me, this is definitely the best social climate to release a pair of games about a sexy witch who has an outfit made out of hair that makes her naked any time she attacks with it.ĭon’t worry: I can already imagine some of you getting nervous.

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