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!

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Blazblue Entropy Effect X – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition

Genre: Action-Platformer / Roguelike

Players: 1-2 Co-Op (Local / Online)

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Review:

A half a year after the release of the Nintendo Switch version of Blazblue Entropy Effect X, we’ve gotten a Nintendo Switch 2 Edition of the game. Costing only $2, it boasts enhanced visuals, improved performance, and a bit of extra content. Let’s have a look!

The first thing the eShop page boasts is improvements to both framerate and resolution – boosting the game to 60FPS with a resolution of 1440p in docked mode and 1080p in handheld mode, and this is very noticeable, with much smoother movement and cleaner image quality all-around.

The second thing the eShop page boasts about is “Significantly reduced loading times”, and I feel like this is an exaggeration. When playing the game on Nintendo Switch, it took me 41 seconds to load to the title screen, 30 seconds to load up a game save, and 8 seconds while in a run to transition from one area to the next. On Nintendo Switch, those times are reduced to 29 seconds, 26 seconds, and 6 seconds. Definitely an improvement (especially the drop from 8 seconds to 4 seconds, because you’ll experience that a lot over the course of the game), but not anywhere near as drastic as some other Nintendo Switch 2 Editions have received.

Finally, the Nintendo Switch 2 release adds a new color palette and avatar to customization settings. And that’s nice, but not even remotely game-changing.

In the end, is the $2 upgrade worth it? Yeah, I think so, primarily for the improved visuals and reduction in scene transition loading times. It’s not a massive game-changer, but it’s collectively enough to make this version a noticeable improvement over the Nintendo Switch version. For $2, I think that’s a pretty good deal.

tl;dr – Blazblue Entropy Effect takes the series’ characters out of the Fighting genre and places them into an Action-Platformer with Roguelike elements, and the result is mostly very good. It’s disappointing to see characters’ move sets cut down, and there are a few needlessly confusing gameplay elements, but overall this is a solid Action-Platformer that I think even players who don’t enjoy Fighting games will find worth a try.

Grade: B

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Ghostrunner

Genre: First-Person Action-Platformer

Players: 1

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Review:

Ghostrunner is one of those Nintendo Switch games that I feel really suffers for being on Nintendo’s underpowered hardware, and while it has not, as of this writing, received any sort of Nintendo Switch 2 upgrade, I hoped that it would see some benefit from Nintendo’s more powerful hardware.

Sadly, this does not appear to be the case. The framerates and resolution appear unchanged from the way the game plays on Nintendo Switch. To be clear, the game didn’t suffer from slowdown or graphical flaws as much as its standard framerates and resolution just didn’t meet the demands of the fast-paced gameplay, and that remains the case here too.

I suppose the game does at least benefit in one area – loading times. On Nintendo Switch, it took me 35 seconds to load to the title screen, and an additional 40 seconds to load a game save. On Nintendo Switch 2, those times are cut down to 24 seconds and 16 seconds.

It’s an improvement, but not in the area the game most needs it. I can only hope that Ghostrunner receives a proper Nintendo Switch 2 Edition release at some point, because even playing the Nintendo Switch version on Nintendo Switch 2… well, just doesn’t cut it in my opinion.

tl;dr – Ghostrunner is a fast-paced First-Person Action-Platformer that has you slicing through enemies as a cyberpunk ninja. The presentation here is good, with a killer soundtrack, but the graphics have suffered noticeably in the transition to Nintendo Switch, to the point they affect the gameplay. These are issues that aren’t fixed by playing the game on Nintendo Switch 2, either. And that’s on top of an extremely difficult and unforgiving game. Unless you absolutely need a super-challenging Action game fix, and you absolutely need to play it on the go, this is not a game you should get on the Nintendo Switch or Nintendo Switch 2.

Grade: C

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I hope you enjoyed this latest batch of Nintendo Switch 2 Difference Mini-Reviews, and found them to be helpful! Want to see all Nintendo Switch 2 Difference comparisons? Check out this page for links to every article where I’ve included these comparisons!

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