Now that the nitty-gritty is out of the way, what can you expect out of this port? You get the entire original campaign and all three DLC expansions-Dawnguard, Hearthfire and Dragonborn. But to my partially untrained eye, you aren’t losing a lot of graphical fidelity with Skyrim on Switch, at least not nearly to the extent that Doom was scaled back. Of course this is just me eyeballing it we won’t have definitive stats on graphics and performance until Digital Foundry does their exhaustive analysis. It’s also locked at 30fps-I didn’t encounter any stutters during the hours I logged-and as far as I can tell, in docked mode Skyrim runs between 900p and 1080p, whereas in handheld mode it uses the Switch screen’s native 720p. This means it’s missing a few of the more intensive effects like ambient occlusion, but it does support the improved shaders, water effects and textures. Let’s get this out of the way first: as far as I can tell, Skyrim on Switch is the remastered edition that released on PS4, Xbox One and PC last year, but running at low-medium spec. This game pulls you in before you know it, you’ve sunk an embarrassing number of hours into its labyrinthine web of side quests and skill trees.
I played Skyrim to death back around 2012, and I skipped last year’s remastered edition-why pay another $50 for fancier graphics that I can get from mods for free? So when it came to reviewing the Nintendo Switch version, I had two simple questions: how does it look, and how does it run? I knew what Skyrim was already a reasonably thorough stress-test would suffice. That said, I still wasn’t sure I wanted to buy it again.
In all fairness Skyrim deserves its ubiquity it’s a modern classic and one of the best RPGs ever made.
One of my favorite jokes of 2017 was a fake Kickstarter campaign, where Howard was supposedly demanding an $8000 crowdfunded ransom just so that he wouldn’t re-announce Skyrim at E3 2018. It’s gotten so bad that it’s a running joke that executive director Todd Howard won’t announce or release any other game anymore besides Skyrim. Six years on, the game is ubiquitous and Bethesda keeps re-releasing it. What more can be said about The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim that hasn’t already been said.
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