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I was awfully impressed by Final Fantasy 7 Remake on Nintendo Switch 2. It looked and ran better than it had any right to, making me feel like I was playing the PS4 Pro version right in the palm of my hands, but with a few extra gameplay modifiers to boot. Square Enix did truly incredible work with this port, and I’m happy recommending it to new players experiencing it for the first time. As for hardcore fans like me, it’s superior to the Steam Deck version and is also playable on a television, even if the resolution never gets remotely close to 4K. It’s killer, but it was also porting a game

But the open world is where players end up spending most of their time. Blurry is the single word I’d use to describe it, since Square has definitely lowered the rendering resolution and torn away all effects and assets to achieve a solid level of performance. While walking along the highway leading out of Kalm, I noticed fewer flags, barrels, and other physics objects lining the road, while the smoke billowing from a nearby reactor was significantly less dense than the PC version I used for comparison. An early side quest has you venturing to a nearby field to gather flowers of different colo