Today, I’m adding more games to the list of games that have seen improvements when played on Nintendo Switch 2. Let’s have a look!

Fire Emblem Warriors

Genre: Action Brawler

Players: 1-2 Co-Op (Local Split-Screen)

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Review:

While the Fire Emblem Warriors games didn’t suffer nearly as much as Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity when it came to the limitations of the Nintendo Switch hardware, the massive number of enemies on-screen at any given time along with the explosive effects of larger attacks could make for moments of slowdown. With this being the case, it seemed prudent to check these games out and see how they perform on Nintendo Switch 2.

For Fire Emblem Warriors, most of the slowdown is gone, even in 2-player split-screen. All that remains are what seem to be purely stylistic moments where the action slows down to highlight a moment, but this has nothing to do with the hardware the game is playing on.

All the other graphical limitations remain – the overall framerate is okay but not great, the resolution and aliasing still looks ugly, and there’s still pop-in of enemies as you enter their areas. None of that has changed.

There is one other noteworthy change here, in the form of improved loading times. On Nintendo Switch, it takes 11 seconds to load to the opening logos when first starting a game, and 10 seconds to load into a level. On Nintendo Switch 2, that is cut down to 4 and 4.

Overall, it’s a modest improvement over what we saw on the original Nintendo Switch, but it is an improvement. It’s definitely not going to look as nice as a newer game like Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment, but if you already own Hyrule Warriors, this will be a nice little extra improvement.

tl;dr – Fire Emblem Warriors combines the Musou-style action-focused gameplay of games like Hyrule Warriors and Dynasty Warriors with some of the strategic elements of the Fire Emblem franchise, along with tons of (sometimes embarrassing) fan service for that series, resulting in a game that’s delightfully fun, if a bit shallow. Map and menu issues detract from this game a bit, but overall this is a wonderful action-packed romp.

Grade: B+

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Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes

Genre: Action Brawler

Players: 1-2 Co-Op (Local Split-Screen)

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Review:

While the Fire Emblem Warriors games didn’t suffer nearly as much as Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity when it came to the limitations of the Nintendo Switch hardware, the massive number of enemies on-screen at any given time along with the explosive effects of larger attacks could make for moments of slowdown. With this being the case, it seemed prudent to check these games out and see how they perform on Nintendo Switch 2.

After checking out Fire Emblem Warriors, I expected the story to be similar in Three Hopes – stabilized framerates, improved loading times, and that’s about it. However, I was absolutely surprised to find that things are different this time around.

First, the loading times, while improved here, don’t see nearly as much improvement as the original Fire Emblem Warriors. On Nintendo Switch, it takes 40 seconds to load to the opening logos when first starting a game, and 3 seconds to load into a level. On Nintendo Switch 2, that is cut down to 33 and 3. Not much of a difference.

However, where the original Fire Emblem Warriors saw framerate improvements on Nintendo Switch 2 in the form of no more slowdown, here not only is the slowdown gone, but the framerates are overall improved to a full 60FPS, making the game play much more smoothly. This is true even in 2-player split-screen. What’s more, when playing on Nintendo Switch 2, Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes doesn’t throttle the framerate of distant enemies, making the game overall look less choppy.

Three Hopes also sees improvements to resolution on Nintendo Switch 2, although this is far more subtle, and mainly due to the original game’s use of dynamic resolution, which is brought up to the max of 1080p docked and around 648p in handheld mode here.

Overall, this is a huge improvement over the way the game plays on Nintendo Switch, and I would argue it’s the most-improved Nintendo-licensed Warriors game on Nintendo Switch 2. True, Age of Calamity needed the improvement the most, but Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes doesn’t just see rough edges smoothed out on Nintendo Switch 2, it is actually improved. This is definitely worth a look if you enjoy “musou”-style Action games!

tl;dr – Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes evolves the first Fire Emblem Warriors’ combination of Musou-style Action Brawler gameplay and strategic elements, pairing it with an excellent alternate story using the world and characters from Fire Emblem: Three Houses. The Musou-style gameplay is still somewhat shallow, but overall this is a fun action-packed experience that both Musou fans and Fire Emblem fans will want to get, and its performance is notably improved by the jump from Nintendo Switch to Nintendo Switch 2.

Grade: A-

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