why I HATE Apex Legends on the Switch Lite

Hello and welcome back to a new video game

review of Apex Legends on the Switch

Lite. So this is a bit of a surprise.

This is a brand new game on the Switch.

It's not a new game though because it

actually came out a few years ago on the

computer. Why has it gone black?

Oh, so yeah, I've been playing this game

all day long. It just came out today and I

thought I would tell you why it sucks and

why it's a waste of money. Okay, so first

of all, the main screen just looks really

weird, and you've got this strange

floating cursor that you move around using

the thumbstick, which is weird. I don't

know why they chose to do this, it's just

really weird. Usually you would move the

directional buttons and it would switch

between the different buttons, like— oh

yeah, it does do that with the D-pad,

like this, but then you've also got this

floating cursor which just feels really

weird. Okay, so let's get into a game. If

you don't know what Apex Legends is, it's

kind of like a ripoff of Fortnite. It's

basically just a first-person version of

Fortnite. It's exactly the same apart from

you don't have the building stuff. So it

is a— what's the term for the game— battle

royale, and you get dropped into a map,

you parachute down of Of course, like all

of them, all of these battle royale games,

you end up parachuting down from the sky

and then you've got to collect weapons and

gear and you've got different characters.

I guess this is a bit different to

Fortnite because on Fortnite you don't

have different characters. This is a bit

like, um, what's the other game called,

the one by Blizzard? Overwatch. Yeah,

it's just like Overwatch. You've got all

these different characters and classes,

they would do different things. And then

you get dropped into the map. Taking ages

to get, get started.

And then there's a time limit, and then as

the time goes on— stupid sound— the

ring keeps getting smaller and you have to

head towards the center of the circle,

just like in Fortnite. Pretty much the

same. Sorry, my throat

is getting clogged. Okay, so look, you

start off in the sky and you've got to

parachute down. And the first

problem I had when I first started playing

this was the graphics is just really,

really bad. Look how blurry and fuzzy it

looks. And I know it's the Switch, so its

hardware capabilities aren't the best,

but Fortnite's doesn't look this bad on

Switch. Look how blurry and fuzzy it

looks. It just looks weird. It's like you

want to keep rubbing your eyes because you

feel like there's something in your eye

making it blurry, but it's not. It's just

a resolution. The sharpness is just really

not sharp, and that's a problem in a game

like this because you're in a big open

world map and one of the important things

is knowing where the enemies are. And when

everything's so fuzzy like this, it's

really hard to tell if there's an enemy in

the distance getting close to you. It's

really difficult to, to make out what's in

the distance when it's also fuzzy and

low-res. Look, so things,

things get sharper when they're closer to

you. Like, this bush doesn't look too bad

when it's there, but when you keep going

backwards, look, it's just like a fuzzy

mess. And then objects in the distance

just randomly pop in when you get closer

to them. It's really annoying, but I guess

you can't really help it when you've got

such, such a detailed game like this,

such a big map, and you've got the Switch

as your hardware. You can't really

complain when the hardware is not the

best, really. And when you've been playing

Rainbow Six all day on your GTX 1060 with

Core i5 CPU processor on

ultra graphics, it just makes this game

look really bad. And you can really tell

the difference between this game and

Rainbow Six on ultra settings. Okay, so

yeah, we have to find equipment. Usually

they're just in these containers. Let's

pick these up.

And what you have to do is try not to die,

try not to get caught inside of that ring.

Uh, that's an enemy there. See, that's—

see, it's also really hard to aim at them

because,

uh, there's kind of auto-aim as well.

I don't know if you like that or not. You

can also slide across the ground like

this. Oh, I did knock him out. Shoot his

bottom, and then that's one, one of

them taken out. And then you can steal his

stuff. Like this. The controls are a

little bit annoying because it's this,

the Joy-Cons, isn't it? One thing I like

about this game is you can, you can sprint

and then slide down hills like this. You

can move really fast. And I have played

this game on computer before, and with

mouse and keyboard it's quite easy to

slide down slopes whilst aiming and

shooting at enemies, but that is just

really difficult to do on the Switch

because You have to use the bottom

part of your thumb to move the camera

whilst holding A down at the same time.

It's just really fiddly, and after

playing Rainbow Six all day with mouse and

keyboard, it just makes it really

annoying. So my teammate over

there failed at life.

One thing I like about the game is the

mobility. It's quite fun just running

around, sliding about, going up the zip

lines. After playing Rainbow Six, which is

a bit of a slower-paced shooter.

It is quite refreshing to zip around so

nimbly. See,

look at the textures. The textures are

just awful. Look at the ground, this rock.

Look, you have to get right in front of it

before the textures even pop in, and even

then it's just like a blurry mess. Look at

that. How's that supposed to be? 2021,

these are the graphics we have. Not up to

my standards at all.

I might try playing this game with the Pro

Controller in a bit, see if it's any

better. But you know what FPS games are

like when you play with a controller,

it's just really uncomfortable. Look, my

thumb is hurting. You see that indentation

in my thumb from having to constantly push

the thumbstick forwards like this? And

then to sprint, you have to double-click

it down and then hold it forwards. It's

just really, really uncomfortable.

And then you've got all these pings you

can use. All these pings. As if I'm gonna

bother pinging stuff like that. Who cares?

And then you've got a special ability. I

don't know what that did. I think I went

Uh, okay, so the main complaint I have

about this game is you spend 80% of the

game just running around like this, not

doing much, trying to find weapons,

trying to find gear, and then hopefully

trying to find people to shoot. But the

map is so big and there just aren't many

players in it. I think there's about 20

people in the whole map.

And it takes ages to find anyone to—

I don't know what's happening. Am I dying

or what? No. Yeah, it just takes ages.

Look how big the map is. The map is pretty

big and there's only 20 people and you

can't drive vehicles. You just end

up running about aimlessly like this

trying to find gear. Uh, you've got

this menu with the floating cursor again.

It feels weird. I do not like floating

cursors with a thumbstick. Just, it's just

stupid. It feels like sloppy design,

like they just took the PC port where you

had the mouse cursor and they didn't

bother changing it. Oh, what's happening?

So much. Oh, and I'm dead. You see, you

see, this is what I hate about the game.

You spend ages, you spend like 10 minutes,

20 minutes, half an hour running around,

running here, running there, trying to

find gear, and then you

die in like 2 seconds, and it just makes

you feel like, oh, everything I just did

was a complete waste of time.

I just wasted all that time picking that

stuff up.

It just feels like you're doing a lot of

work for very little payout. In Rainbow

Six, you don't really have to do much

work. Yeah, there's reinforcing at the

beginning of this match where you just put

up some traps or you set up some cameras,

but it only takes about 20 or 30 seconds.

In this game, the setup and preparation

time is just way too long,

and then if you die on your first

encounter, it just makes you feel like

that was all a waste of time. It's kind

of why I stopped playing Fortnite as well,

because I felt like you just spend half an

hour running about collecting materials,

collecting weapons, and then you finally

encounter another player and you get

killed. And then

you have to go— you get kicked back to the

lobby, you have to start all over again,

do the whole thing again. It's like 10 90%

preparation, running around doing boring

pointless stuff, and then 10% action, and

then you get kicked out of the match, and

then you'll do that all over again. I just

can't be bothered.

Yeah, I didn't like this game on PC, and I

definitely do not like it on the Switch.

Give this game a 2.2 out of 10. Do not

buy. Complete waste of money. Very

disappointing. The only good thing I can

say about this game is the artwork and the

graphics— not the graphics, I mean the

visual design. The art style is quite

nice, but apart from that, a lot of