Insane Nintendo Switch Performance Review!

Hello welcome to switched on paul speaking and today going to be having a look at minecraft dungeons i didn’t actually get a code for this one so i’ve actually dipped into the uh the bank and paid actual cash for this one and this comes in around about 20.16

Pounds 74 something odd like that in the uk um i just wanted to make a quick video on it because i’ve seen a lot of negativity about it uh on twitter and stuff and some of the reviews weren’t exactly glowing to put it nicely

So what i thought i’d do is i’ve had a little play this um hour or two and uh thought i’d just um sort of give you my opinions of the performance on the switch because as i say it’s people are sort of uh flagging out pretty early on that it doesn’t run great

So just going to talk to you about a couple of things we’re going to dive into a mission here so if we can go into one of the early missions that we’ve already done go to the creeper woods and just put it on a on an easy level

For now we’re level we’re power 10 character level 10 at the moment which is uh totally overpowered for this level but i’m interested in sort of explaining the the performance issues and the gameplay rather than showcasing any high level stuff so straight off the bat this this runs

Infinitely better handheld than it does docked there’s certainly issues when you play this docked on the switch i think the target fps is 30 frames a second certainly doesn’t run at that all the time it runs close to it a lot of the time but especially when things get busy it

Does dip into probably the low to mid 20s i’m no expert and that certainly haven’t counted the frames but personally it hasn’t spoiled my enjoyment of the game at all this is obviously docked at the moment and um probably not going to get too many large

Mobs so i might talk into the video and just dive into a slightly higher probably getting a few fewer enemies on the screen there you can see it’s running pretty well as i say when it when you’re at handheld it runs pretty smooth without any real hassles at all see what this

Explosion affects the uh the frame rate again still reasonably solid youtube obviously is gonna have a little bit of an impact of uh of the quality when it’s uh goes for its compressions but anyway if you don’t know a lot about this one you may have may have heard it

Was coming out it came out on that way today thursday account tuesday this is a like a dungeon crawler game bit like diablo but set in the minecraft universe so you’ve also got minecraft graphics but the diablo loot gamepl up the character there’s no actual uh

Decent pulls in the game so what i’m gonna do is when i clear this mob out i will go into the character screen let’s get rid of these these tricky little skeletons it’ll fire arrows at you and then run off out of your range of fire a lot of tnt

There to take care of a little gaggle of enemies there so if we go press up on the d-pad take you into your character screen so you can see that i’m level 10 or power level 10 anyway character level 9. um you’ve got three slots at the top

Here for gear so i’ve got handheld weapons i’ve got two pair of moondaggers at the minute you’ve got your armor in the middle slot so i’ve got an evocation robe and then like a distance weapon you can find a bow but i’ve got a scatter crossbow a minute

That fires three arrows at once and then at the bottom here you’ve got some um i think they’re called artifacts i think or maybe just items i don’t know but um the things like a flaming quiver here they’re like special abilities if i activate that then my next uh arrows are fire

Uh they do fire damage got a fishing rod here which you can use to pull people towards you i was kind of hoping it would actually let you do fishing but it doesn’t and this here is a totem of regeneration which i’ve just recently got which i can plonk down

And regenerate my health while i’m in its radius and a little thing that i like with the gear as well is um when you collect the gear you can actually put enchantments on it press x and you get this little uh graphic pop up here you can see on the

Bottom right hand side you’ve got three sort of major slots and within each slot you can have what looks to be up to four different enchantments so level one at the moment i’ve got the explorer enchantment so for every 100 blocks explored on the map you regain a small amount of health and

Then you see within that i can level that up three times uh for more um i don’t know what they’re called really rubies or something the little magical gems that you get so let me know i’ve got it um 0.7 health regained for every 100 blocks i explore

And i can level it up again for oh where are we now i’ve got the sorry i’ve got the 0.3 health overnight and then 0.7 will cost me two more gems and then to go to level three will be an expense on top of that or if

I look at the right hand side here i’ve got these other ones i could spend um my rubies on whatever they’re called i’ve got thorns whenever you take them and you deal damage back to the attacker frenzied and health synergy now the good thing is when you

Swap out for better gear so you can see here i’ve got some other gear and i’ll show you what i can do i want to keep that actually i’m going to re-equip that grave bane so my sickles here these have got an enchantment on them i can go to enchantments

And you can see i’ve got the echo enchantment now if i salvage this gear you can see here i get back uh 15 of the gems let’s use those green gems to buy things at the shop and also get back the enchantment ruby that i used so that’s really good so if i

Salvage those i get back the the power up and i can spend that elsewhere out so i can come here i probably won’t be able to put anything into my i believe it’s gonna cost three i’ve got three ruby so i can go here on my grave bane

And spend the three purple rubies there to get a 300 increased chance to find more emeralds and fallen enemies so i’m going to do that so what you can do is you can swap your gear out there’s no there’s no real hardship in salvaging your gear because you get back what you

Spent on it so that’s really cool so i’m keeping a couple of these things here i tend to swap in and around these other items so we’re going to carry on heading towards the yellow arrow as i say this is the easiest level and i’m really overpowered

At the moment so don’t pay too much attention to how easy it is it’s certainly a bit lighter gameplay wise than diablo but it’s still enough of a challenge so following these arrows rescue these villagers you get these little um tasks normally you’re sort of a heading

Through the map killing all the mobs getting to the end of the map but you do get these little missions in between so hammering a to attack then the r button let me do a roll and that’s on a cool down you can see my toolbar at the bottom whenever

I activate anything i’ve got call down l will let me use a magic potion to regain my health and then you’ve got the white x and b there to use your items that we just had a look at on the equipment screen i’m just whacking these zombies out of the way And the zr also that i think i mentioned there zr is used to fire your uh arrows just you can the maps are pretty big and again considering it’s running on the switch that they’re quite impressively big really there’s a lot of areas to explore a lot of nice little animation you can

See there everything’s kind of moving the grass the trees it’s like flowers that move fire that flickers so plenty going on in the world and say if you hunt down to the the far flung corners of the world you can find treasure chests and uh different sorts of things

So it’s worth taking your time to have a good look around the uh apart from the the frame rate issues in docks you will get a little bit of uh what i think well i think the right name for his hitching the sort of the action will stop

For like a split second and then carry on again not ideal but doesn’t really affect my enjoyment so here we go here little uh pot out of the way there with some ruby uh emeralds in take out those skillets before they start firing me but yeah there’s big bosses in the game so

They’re quite hard to take down you get sort of mid-level bosses there’s dungeons to find that can have uh loot in obviously all the loot is graded as well so you have like rare common epic all that kind of stuff all the usual stuff for these dungeon crawlers

But yeah i just wanted to make a video it’s not a review so i’ve not got this one for review just enjoying playing it for my own um entertainment but just wanted to make a video just so if anyone uh was a bit worried after seeing some reviews or hearing some blow

Back on twitter uh as i say i’m not gonna stick a stamp on it to say it’s a hundred percent perfect if you play mainly handheld can pretty much um you know completely recommend it you’re gonna have a a great time if you like duncan crawlers

If you play doctor a lot of the time and you are sensitive to frame rate issues then just bear that in mind um i don’t know if mojang are going to be looking at fixing anything they normally support their games uh on the switch anyway they’ve updated minecraft quite a lot

So we can get to the engine to find that end of this level I like the music as well it’s got a nice little um the music’s really nice in the background you see that one of my arrows exploded that’s kind of a one of my enchantments let’s see achievements as well you have to sign into xbox live at the start

And uh you get the achievement system you can’t actually match up with anyone there’s no cross-platform uh play or anything which is a bit of a shame i don’t think they’re gonna be adding that in later as well oh these spider-man fire webs in stick you down

As you can see it looks really nice some really nice lighting as well got that nice animation the lighting’s nice so yeah unlike this one is a budget title after we’re looking at say under 20 in in america i picked this up for around about 15 from the south african

E-shop so even better value so check that out if you’re a region hopper like i am then check out the south african store for the cheapest version at the moment you see here loads of loot from smashing that chest hello youtube so look what we’ve got there all sorts of stuff

Tasty bones someone’s a wolf to adrian battle that’s nice not had that before so if i activate my let’s see if i connect to my fire arrows i’ve got more villages to free yeah if i press y i’m now activating my fire arrows which uh when they hit the enemies we’ll

Set fire to them which is bad news for them good news for me there’s somebody just a free so there you go that’s minecraft dungeons on the nintendo switch as i say if you’re really sensitive to uh frame rate issues and you play dots most of the time just

Approach it with a bit of caution if you play mainly handheld can i give it an absolutely glowing recommendation if you like uh dungeon crawlers like diablo i don’t keep saying diablo diablo if you like uh diablo and uh you can like this is four player local and

Four player online can’t mix and match so you kind of like two players local and two players online which is a bit of a shame uh but yeah looking for some co-op dungeon crawling action then check this one out hope you enjoyed the video leave me a thumbs up if you did and

Please subscribe if you’re new uh keep your eyes peeled for more videos coming this week uh really big day of game releases tomorrow so hopefully i’m gonna have plenty of coverage on that but until then look forward to seeing soon and uh take care see you in the next one cheers bye