Cyberpunk 2077 Nintendo Switch 2 Review Update

The Switch 2 mightiness battalion overmuch amended hardware than the original, but a crippled I’m inactive amazed to spot moving astatine each (much little beauteous well) connected a Nintendo strategy is Cyberpunk 2077. I spent a fewer days with CD Projekt Red’s latest larboard to get a consciousness for however it runs, however it holds up, and however the Switch 2’s fancy caller rodent controls enactment erstwhile applied to a high-octane FPS. The reply crossed the committee is impressive, and if you haven’t had the pleasance of exploring Night City before, this seems similar a coagulated mode to bash so.

But first, let’s look backmost astatine what I said successful my reappraisal of Cyberpunk 2077 erstwhile it archetypal launched successful 2020.

Of course, that was conscionable for the PC version, and the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 versions were specified a notorious messiness that we had to spell backmost and bash a abstracted reappraisal with a overmuch little people erstwhile we got our hands connected it astatine launch. (And don’t hide we besides reviewed its fantabulous Phantom Liberty DLC successful 2023, which is included successful the Switch 2 version.) Thankfully, the Switch 2 larboard is obscurity adjacent the catastrophe it was connected the aged console procreation – successful fact, it’s beauteous dang great.

Cyberpunk 2077 looks beauteous large connected Nintendo Switch 2

All it takes is simply a speedy glimpse to spot that Cyberpunk 2077 inactive looks precise bully connected Nintendo’s caller console. The chiseled neon glows and soiled streets of Night City each travel done live and good here, adjacent if they aren’t rather arsenic crisp and cleanable arsenic you’d find connected PC, PS5, oregon Xbox Series X. This isn’t precisely the “definitive” mode to play this game, but it’s much than bully capable from a applicable standpoint. This isn’t similar the Switch 1 larboard of The Witcher 3, which felt similar an “I conjecture we tin marque this function” benignant of past edifice mode to play much than thing else.

The framerate is decent but not jaw-dropping

You tin cheque retired the method specs successful our communicative astir however CD Projekt managed to get Cyberpunk 2077 moving connected the Switch 2 – successful short, it’s moving astatine 1080p erstwhile docked, and 1080p oregon 720p successful handheld, depending connected if you’re playing successful Quality oregon Performance mode, and it maxes retired astatine 40fps. Your mileage whitethorn alteration here, due to the fact that contempt my PC gaming background, I americium not a immense show snob and I person nary contented playing astatine little than 60fps. So to my eye, Cyberpunk 2077 runs reasonably good successful docked mode, adjacent if acold from perfect. It has immoderate dropped frames successful parts and doesn’t tally arsenic buttery creaseless arsenic the Switch 2 Editions of Tears of the Kingdom oregon Breath of the Wild, but thing is truthful distracting that it actively harmed my clip with it successful this context. If you can’t basal thing beneath a coagulated 60fps, this mightiness beryllium 1 you request to skip – anyone who is utilized to playing games wholly connected the archetypal Switch, however, should beryllium comfy capable here.

Switch 2 rodent controls enactment amazingly well

One of the biggest draws of the Switch 2 for maine was its quality to mimic rodent power with a sideways Joy-Con, perchance giving you greater accuracy successful a first-person crippled similar this. I americium blessed to accidental that’s precisely the case, arsenic it was ace casual for maine to leap from my PC to this power enactment and get acold much headshots than I would person with a regular gamepad. It’s not astatine the aforesaid level arsenic a high-DPS gaming rodent oregon anything, but it’s perfectly my preferred mode to play this crippled whenever I sat down to bash so, and that’s a immense win. That said…

The Joy-Con rodent isn’t large for agelong sessions

You see, the occupation with the Switch 2’s rodent mode isn’t really the prime of the rodent power itself, but the carnal consciousness of utilizing it. The Joy-Con is tiny compared to a mean mouse, and my manus was cramping up trying to get a bully grip connected it aft agelong play sessions – adjacent erstwhile I utilized a 3D-printed ammunition to marque it consciousness better. That’s due to the fact that there’s obscurity to comfortably enactment your thumb portion inactive being capable to property the close stick, Y button, and A button, each of which are required for assorted actions arsenic you leap betwixt combat, conversations, and paper management. So portion the rodent is amended than I expected, I’m disquieted this awkward grip is going to halt maine from consistently utilizing it successful the future.

Cyberpunk 2077’s question assistance options aren’t great

That said, the rodent controls are astatine slightest amended than utilizing motions to shortcut definite actions. The accustomed method of aiming with the close instrumentality chiefly and past fine-tuning that purpose with question controls is disposable and works conscionable arsenic good present arsenic it does successful worldly similar Zelda, but the question assistance options are beauteous useless beyond that. You tin plaything your Joy-Con to usage your melee limb successful a mode that gave maine unflattering flashbacks to aboriginal Wii games, oregon twist and flail it to bash actions similar reload oregon heal, but doing truthful astir ever made my camera wobble astir astatine the aforesaid time. It whitethorn wounded my hand, but I’ll instrumentality rodent controls implicit this immoderate day.

This is inactive an awesome RPG worthy playing

Finally, revisiting Night City reminded maine conscionable however large this crippled is, particularly aft each the improvements aft launch. The satellite is moody and dangerous, and it does a large occupation of dropping you successful and instantly making you consciousness similar a portion of the culture. I besides support it stages its quest conversations amended than immoderate RPG I’ve ever seen, giving elemental chats a cinematic prime without ever taking you retired of the operator seat. If you’ve ne'er played Cyberpunk 2077, I tin perfectly urge you cheque it retired here.

I americium inactive moving connected my last Switch 2 review, but you tin cheque retired our reviews of Mario Kart World and Welcome Tour successful the meantime. And if you privation penetration connected different ports, we’ve got a look astatine Tears of the Kingdom, Breath of the Wild, and Hogwarts Legacy.