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I think the general consensus will end up giving this game a solid 8.5/10 (user consensus of course, not journali$t consensus. You can already see that in the user score on metascore.)

Someone mentioned online "which part of this game constitues giving it a 10/10?" and I totally agree having been playing since the leaks. This is coming from an OG OOT 1998 player too. Happy Zelda is back, but still think they could have done more with this one or at least innovate more.

Worst is the Switch hardware making this unplayable until emulation catches up. How on earth did a game that looks and runs like how TOTK not get dinged EVEN A TINY BIT for graphics and performance? I'm not a graphics whore by any means, but there's a limit here.

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Strange, I personally find it very enjoyable on the switch.

Could be better obviously but I really like the art style and the gameplay is way more fluid than almost any other AAA games running at 60FPS on my PC.

I've seen Switch Gifs when the game is under stress and they don't look too fluid. I'm talking with giant contraptions flying in the sky and all that.

It lags every time I open ultrahand.

Same. I feel it breaks the immersion, if only briefly. And I agree with the above commenter “how did this not get dinged a little bit for this”.

It does but this performance drop is most likely fixable so there is hope.

> way more fluid

we all have our blinders.

"Gameplay is more fluid" =/= "game has fluid fps"

I get 60fps on yuzu but it stutters sometimes when I think it's loading new assets.

Vulkan shader compilation or the yuzu garbage collector, most likely. Unless you have a slow drive, then it could very well be asset streaming speed.

It's already running remarkably well under emulation, the few minor bugs that exist are easy to overlook when the upside is playing it at 60fps with triple or quadruple the resolution.

I'm very bothered by this aspect of switch gaming. If I want to play a game at a decent framerate and resolution I have to jump through hoops to run it on unofficial hardware.

I've been playing through BotW again on CEMU since my Wii U died awhile back. I'm blown away by how amazing it looks and how stable it runs on my PC. There are some minor issues with completing certain puzzles that require motion controls, but so far I found easy workarounds for everything

That's a feature. Typically you can't do this for most modern consoles.

Also there's the added benefit of not paying anything if you're ok with doing something illegal.

> "which part of this game constitues giving it a 10/10?"

The logic I imagine here: "BotW was approximately 10/10. And this is no worse than BotW."

(YMMV on whether BotW was that good.)

It improves on BotW in basically every way. It's as perfect of a sequel as I've played.

Performance is sometimes noticeable, but doesn't bother me, I'm too focused on playing the game

So is the game a solid 8.5/10 or is it unplayable?

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