“A complicated and rather compromised conversion”.
The Switch has been well served with older Assassin’s Creed games, getting a number of ports that give players a lot of adventures to work through. The most recent arrival was Assassin’s Creed: The Ezio Collection, including three titles that are regarded by some as the original peak of the franchise.
We gave this collection a recommendation in our review, but with some caveats, and the Digital Foundry assessment (above) seems similar on the technical front. In terms of the visuals, there are some interesting points on the detail and general ‘look’ lost from the originals when these games were reworked on PS4 / Xbox One. The further transition to Switch seems to have taken away some atmospheric details, leading to a ‘clinical’ appearance at times.
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