The Witcher 3 Review - Switch 2 Gameplay

Hello, welcome back to a new video.

So today we're going to be looking at The

Witcher 3: Wild Hunt on the Switch 2.

So it's quite an old game, came out in

2015.

I think it came to the Switch around 2018,

so it is quite a dated game.

And no, there hasn't been a Switch 2

update or patch for this yet.

So what you're seeing here is basically

the Switch 1 version, but it's running on

the Switch 2.

So you might be thinking, what's the point

of that?

How's it going to be any different?

Actually, it is actually a lot different.

So first of all, you get a solid 30 frame

rates per second basically all the time.

Even if you go into a city or a busy area,

most of the time you're going to be

getting a solid 30 FPS, unlike with the

original Switch version of it where the

game was known to stutter and lag around

when you go into a city and it would drop

down to like 20, low 20s FPS, which wasn't

very good.

So even though there's no update or patch

or Switch 2 textures or upgrade version of

this yet, or ever maybe, I don't know, it

still looks pretty good for a game of its

age.

And it— the picture does look sharper and

brighter on the Switch 2 compared to how

it looked like on the original Switch.

I remember the original Switch textures

look kind of fuzzy, a bit blurry.

I think the upscaling with the DLSS SS

upscaling has had an effect on it where

even though there hasn't been a new update

or patch, the game just automatically by

default looks better just because it's on

the Switch 2.

So we're using the Switch 2's newest

processor and upgraded hardware to have a

smoother gameplay experience.

So that's pretty nice and everything.

Unfortunately, apart from that, nothing

really else has changed.

So if you're looking to get this game now

in 2025, I wouldn't really recommend it.

I think there's much better games that

have been released much recently that play

much better.

And this game is— it was okay.

It was pretty good when it first came out.

I remember it came out in 2015 and people

were raving about all the monster fights.

Oh, the hunts.

You hunt down the monster and you fight it

and then it runs away and then you track

it down.

Kind of just like Monster Hunter.

It's like a Western version of Monster

Hunter.

I think CD Projekt Red made this.

Actually, they made Cyberpunk 2077 as

well.

So Yeah, they've made some good games, but

this probably isn't one of my favorite

ones from them.

It's an okay game.

I remember playing it on Switch Lite and I

thought, yeah, it's pretty fun.

I got it on PC as well, and it was better

on PC to be honest because you got a

bigger screen and better graphics.

I find the combat to be okay.

It's a lot of just dodging about, slashing

here, slashing there, blocking there.

You got some fire spells and magic you can

also use in combination, but I found the

combat to be a bit boring.

To be honest, it's just hack and slash at

the end of the day, uh, not really

innovative.

And also the loading speeds in this game

are abysmal.

So if you die, you've got to load back the

last checkpoint and it takes forever.

It takes ages, like at least half a

minute.

And it's a bit disappointing because you

think on the Switch 2 with this new SSD,

the loading speeds would be a lot better.

But for some reason, just loading a

previous save

seems to take a lot of graphical power, so

you'll be dying a lot if you're not

playing it on easy mode, which I was not

playing on, and I died a lot and had to

sit there staring at this loading screen

quite often.

And yeah, it got kind of boring having to

look at the loading screen over and over

and over and over again.

Look how long it takes.

2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 seconds,

11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20

seconds, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28.

There, about 30 seconds it took 30 seconds

to load the previous save.

That is so bad.

So the game runs pretty smoothly.

As you can see, you've got at least 30

FPS.

I don't think it's got 60 FPS.

A lot of the games on Switch 2 don't have

60 FPS, unfortunately.

Don't know why, don't know how, don't

really care.

Yeah, so if you want to play it or you

missed it out or it's the only game you've

got on Switch because no new games have

come out that you want and you can just

redownload this for free if you've already

purchased it, then you might want to play

this.

And it does look slightly better on the

Switch 2.

Performance is a bit better just because

this is more powerful hardware and it can

maintain the 30 FPS better for longer than

the original Switch was able to.

So you will get a smoother gameplay

experience, which is nice, but you won't

really get much more than that.

So if you want like a hack-and-slash

adventure RPG to play play whilst you wait

for some new games to come out on the

Switch 2, then this is a pretty good

option, I guess you could say.

If you haven't played it before and you

haven't bought it yet, would I recommend

buying it and playing this now in 2025?

Hmm, I don't know.

I feel like there's probably better games

out there.

I think if you really want like an RPG

fantasy game, Elden Ring Tarnished Edition

is coming out on Switch 2 soon, and I just

think that's a much more up-to-date,

modern Better game than this, The Witcher

2.

And he said the switcher, the switcher on

The Witcher 3, 2, 1, don't know, whatever.

Gotta dive in, make sure they didn't miss

anything.

Blood.

Guardsmen pulled these nets out of the

water, then cut the mutilated body free.

Okay.

Go, go.

Hobnailed boots, multiple sets of prints.

Ducal Guard, clearly.

Let's see where they went.

Notice anything interesting?

Alas, nothing.

Got guests.

Careful.

For the glory of her grace, I shall make a

tree of you!

Drawn here by the smell of blood.

Let's keep looking.

Walked along the shoreline.

Perhaps the body lay on the bank.

Anything taken by the current ends up in

these shallows.

Yes, the stench is fierce.

Hmm.