The newest Sonic platformer Sonic Superstars made its debut on the Swap and a number of different platforms final month. Digital Foundry has now uploaded a tech overview, seeing how the Nintendo model of the sport compares to the remainder.
All variations besides the Nintendo Swap “largely share the identical visible qualities”. In handheld mode, the Swap delivers a full 720p native output however some phases run at a 720p decision. In docked, the decision hits 720p, with decreased texture decision and decrease texture filtering.
Along with this lighting is reduce, bloom results are gone and so are “fogging and atmospherics”. Sonic additionally does not have a shadow.
As for the sport’s body charge on Swap, all these cuts are the value of 60fps on the Swap and the sport nonetheless performs nicely. Sadly, it is not at all times excellent with too many objects or characters on display screen typically leading to drops. The primary half of the sport on Swap apparently feels nice, however the issues change into extra frequent over time with some moments like boss battles dropping beneath 50fps.
On the loading entrance, the Swap has longer instances however they nonetheless all load “comparatively fast”. And by way of controls, the sport feels essentially the most responsive on Nintendo {hardware}, apparently.