Holy cow. I honestly never thought I'd see a Switch game with graphics this impressive running so stable. There's a video doing a direct comparison with the PS4 version and outside of the lighting and foliage nothing seems vastly reduced in quality. There are a lot of textures that are changed up close, but mostly they just look different, not inferior. The lighting is by far the biggest downgrade.

very impressive that they managed to preserve the ingame visuals to this level and it's a great decision to splice in pre-rendered footage into the cutscenes to retain the essential performance-capture

close scrutiny ofcourse reveals lots of cut backs (lower res, lower res textures, big hit on vegetation quality, missing lighting and shadowing effects etc), yet the overall visuals are still excellent and very much do the game justice

That makes it obvious its not just Resolution, but texture quality, lightning, shadows, effects ect ect. that are scaled back.
There was a few times there was slight stutter on the switch that wasnt on the PS4 side (loading after Cutscenes), but apart from that runs just as smooth I think.

Overall its impressive that this runs on the Switch.
Resolution is def. below 720p though, sometimes its quite blurry (its more noticeable when watching that compairson video).

^ this.

It looks like a good game port.

I bought it on day one for PS4 Pro and again on day one when I got an Xbox One X. I jumped between the original Xbox One and the X through much of that second playthrough.

Well, I bought it again for the Switch and... after about 30 minutes of play in docked mode, the graphical downgrade is pretty substantial. It still looks good. Maybe the best looking Switch game on the market, in terms of character models and environments. Technical issues smack you in the face at every turn, though. It's a miracle this game is running on Switch at all but don't get your hopes up. I haven't even encountered an enemy, yet!

Well yeah, at the end of the day, they're taking a game that runs on a home console with 1152 GPU cores, 176GB/s of RAM bandwidth, 5GB of RAM for games, which sucks about 140 watts, and squeezing into on a mobile device with 256 GPU cores, 25GB/s of bandwidth, 3GB of RAM for games, which uses about 11 watts docked. A simple resolution reduction alone was never going to get the job done.

Speaking of resolution, having played about 2 hours in now, it's definitely dynamic. More complex areas, especially with a lot of foliage, appear noticeably softer. I wouldn't want to guess at the number, I'll leave that to digital foundry, but the end results look close to Doom on Switch.

I still have yet to come across any serious framerate drops though, so that's a plus.

This video shows the effects of the fire, looks very impressive.

https://youtu.be/UGpmqImwUns?t=1148

Thanks for the info on here Curl, you sold me a copy of the game this morning, also given that the company behind this title is owned by Microsoft this is the 3rd MS title in my library on the Switch now with Cuphead and Minecraft already on there. Happily voting with my Wallet for them to give the Ninty machine all the love they feel it deserves.

For those still curious, a here's a video comparison of handheld vs docked:

Cheers man, happy to help. :)

About an hour in so far, really cool atmosphere in the game and wow, it's absolutely beautiful looking, and sounding.

I just beat Valravn; one of the most fun and satisfying boss fights I've played in a long time.

Absolutely loving the game so far. Combat feels great and has more depth than I expected, the puzzles are clever, the storytelling and voice performances are superb, and the mental illness angle is well implemented. Been quite a while since I've been this into a game, possibly not since Doom's Switch port back in late 2017.