During the few hours I spent with it, I didn’t experience any significant slowdown or frame rate drops. And that’s exactly what the Switch version is. I’d much rather a bland-looking THPS game that plays well than the opposite. It’s a tradeoff that has to be made with these ports, and the team at developer Vicarious Visions has made the right choice. If the developers had focused on the visuals, the performance would almost certainly suffer. Read next: How Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater changed the lives of some of the world’s biggest skaters It doesn’t look bad, necessarily, but definitely dated.
On next-gen consoles the skaters look incredibly close to their real-world counterparts on the Switch they’re more like PS3 characters. On the Switch, meanwhile, the game has a flat, simple look, particularly when it comes to the textures, which can be blurry or muddled. This is especially true if you’re coming off of the recent next-gen updates for the game, which made an already excellent-looking skating title look even better. It’s not the ideal way to play, but it definitely works.įirst, the obvious: the game doesn’t look great.
Thankfully, from what I’ve played, THPS is a surprisingly solid port.
This is a game where movement and flow is paramount if frame rate hitches get in the way of a good run, it’s not really worth playing. Which why I was only cautiously excited about Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 - an excellent-yet-awkwardly named remaster of the first two games in the series - making its way to the Switch. Sometimes you get a welcome surprise like Doom Eternal, other times a mess like Apex Legends. Namely: when there’s a port of a big game, you never quite know what to expect. We’re more than four years into the life of the Nintendo Switch, and yet in some ways the handheld device remains an enigma.
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