| Kyuu said: Counting a very late port of an indie game from last generation just shows how misleading this list is. You might as well count all PS1 games as PS2 games since the system was 100% backwards compatible... The Switch is nothing special atm. Give it some time. |
that logic fails competely. No one counted Super Smash Bros Melee or Mario Sunshine as Wii 90+ Metacritic games just because the Wii was backwards compatible. Terrible logic.
if there was a PS1 game that was RERELEASED on the PS2 with added content and features and it got rated high by critics then it would be totally fair (although now that I think of it, there weren't a lot of rereleases between those two gens, maybe because they coexisted for quite a bit in the early 2000s).
the Shovel Knight compilation is awesome and surprisingly plays very comfortably on the Switch in handheld mode, despite the lack of a traditional D pad.
as for Mario Kart 8- apparently the Battle Mode is killer and its technically like perfect. Zelda I don't think I need to discuss on why it earned its Metacritic score....
you can make all the excuses you want, but there are plenty of terribly optimized ports or remasters all of the time. In fact debatably the majority. We should be giving credit where credit is due when a studio upgrades a game or optimizes it to play well on a system (Shovel Knight), particularly because the norm isn't necessarily that it goes well. Also its easier said than done to make a game work perfectly with a totally different systems controls and configurations.
Switch is obvs off to a good start in terms of software that is highly rated. and for the record- critics are generally harsh as fuck on remasters and things, I think its plainly obvious that they're happy about Shovel Knight and Mario Kart 8 because they contain a lot of content and technically are great at running on the Switch
