The best graphics for Nintendo Switch: the best games for Switch

There was perhaps an element of surprise at how adorable Luigi's Mansion 3 looked like it caught us off guard. Not that we expected it to be anything less than adorable – it è a high-level Nintendo version, but we weren't quite prepared for the beauty of Luigi's trequel. Developer Next Level Games really lived up to its name with this one and sucked every last great graphics juice out of the hardware.

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The Touryst (Switch eShop)

With performance locked in at silky smooth 60fps and pixel count to the max, whether you're playing docked or portable, developer Shin'en's The Touryst is a real eye-catcher. With a colorful voxel art style and bright island-based environment, it's a wonderfully beautiful little adventure to undertake and we highly recommend you give it a try if this passed you on last year.

Kingdom Two Crowns (Switch eShop)

While 2D pixel art games cost ten cents, few of them are as breathtaking as Kingdom Two Crowns. Performance may not be perfect, but a look at the wonderful reflections, subtle lighting, and sheer detail in this game's ever-changing landscapes is enough to forgive and forget any frame rate hiccups you may encounter.

Octopath Traveler (Switch)

With a style that the manufacturers have labeled “HD-2D”, Octopath Traveler presents 16-bit style sprites in a beautiful 3D world and manages to blend into a coherent and rather surprising whole. The striking depth of field and lighting effects give the impression of an intricate miniature model moving before your eyes. The gameplay was excellent, of course, but it was the aspect of Octopath Traveler that stuck in our memory.

Astral Chain (Switch)

This Switch exclusive has all the simple style you'd expect from PlatinumGames, the studio that makes Bayonetta, but we were particularly impressed with the world-building effect of Astral Chain's cohesive art direction. The rich colors contrast with the worn surfaces and police department technology, with the sharp drawings of Masakazu Katsura's characters giving this dystopian future a unique look when it could easily become another. one of those.

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Switch)

By taking the original game design for the Game Boy and dressing it up with a wonderful toy-like aesthetic, developer Grezzo has done a great job of reinventing a classic for modern hardware. Only a few erratic performance issues take it away from the brilliance, but Link's Awakening on the Switch is still one of the graphics jewels of the system.

Rayman Legends: Definitive Edition (Switch)

It may be a leftover from the previous generation, but Rayman Legends remains one of the coolest 2D platformers ever, and that's no less true of the Definitive Edition on Switch. His cartoon art style is timeless and holds up into 2020 just as well as when he first wowed us on Wii U in 2013. This is often available at a significantly discounted price on eShop sales, so if not. you've taken the plunge, we highly recommend that you familiarize yourself with Ubisoft's limbless wonder.

GRIS (Switch eShop)

A delicate little indie platformer, GRIS's watercolor style is just the ticket if you're stressed out and need a restorative and relaxing game. Coming from the independent Nomada studio, it's a little magical adventure where you bring pigmentation back to a colorless world. If you are looking for something that catches the attention of others while playing, GRIS is a captivating game.

Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap (Switch eShop)

Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap is a stunning reskin of a Master System classic that was rebuilt from the ground up. The graphics alone are enough to earn their place here, although the real ace in the hole is the ability to switch from the incredible Lizardcube graphics to the original 8-bit graphics in real time. You don't have to enter a menu, press one button and the other style moves across the screen. The scrub between the two became part of the game for us as we transitioned from one style to the other and admired the artistic choices made in the updated version.

Don't get us wrong, Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom is great too, but this game has a special place in our hearts. The artist himself worked on the sublime Streets of Rage 4.

Townscaper (Switch eShop)

Less of a game and more of a relaxing (and utterly captivating) toy, screenshot by indie curio Townscaper is responsible for taking up roughly half of the storage space on the micro SD card housed in our Switch at the moment. With the ability to change the time of day in real time via the menu, we've wasted many happy hours creating incredibly complex water cities and capturing photos from all angles - a nice way to spend a few minutes or many hours without any purpose other than creating something aesthetically pleasing. Fortunately, Townscaper makes it easy.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Switch)

Of course. There isn't much to say with this really - Breath of the Wild is a majestic game that made us gaze at the outcrops and scan the horizon in real life when we ventured into the countryside. You can find holes around individual aspects of the presentation, be it resolution, irregularities, or the occasional drop in frame rate, but the cumulative effect of its systems and the strength of its art direction still make it one of the best-looking Switch games out of three. years after release.