Jump Force Deluxe Edition Nintendo Switch Review An Ugly Substitute

Jump Force Deluxe Edition Nintendo Switch Review: An Ugly Substitute

Jump Force on the Nintendo Switch is a fun experience overall, but suffers from a terrible frame rate and severely downgraded graphics.

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Jump Force Deluxe Edition Nintendo Switch Review An Ugly Substitute

Developer Spike Chunsoft’s Jump Force Deluxe Edition on Nintendo Switch captures the mechanics of the original release while delivering players an additional set of characters from all across the Shonen anime genre. Players will be happy to play as and fight alongside all their favorite fighters, unimpeded by continuity. The singular overwhelming issue with this port is the reality that this game was simply not made to run on the Switch’s limited hardware, however, which becomes apparent quickly.

Hardcore fans will likely be among the only players who will be able to tolerate Jump Force Deluxe Edition on Nintendo Switch for more than a few hours. The story is nothing to write home about, with just enough complexity to give some quick excuses for why all of these characters ended up in the same place. Battling as characters from Dragon Ball Z, Yu Yu Hakusho, One Piece, Bleach, and even Yu-Gi-Oh! is just as thrilling on the Switch as it was in Jump Force on PlayStation and Xbox. Games with over 40 characters are often victims of copied and pasted fighting styles and mechanics. Luckily, each fighter in Jump Force maintains their dynamic moveset ripped straight from their respective manga pages.

The Jump Force Deluxe Edition Switch port is mostly intact from a mechanics standpoint. Encounters are just as exciting and fast-paced as they are in the original version and aren’t affected by playing the game in the Switch’s portable mode. One caveat is that the moves are slightly easier to pull off on the Pro Controller than they are with the Joy-Cons. Playing with the Switch Lite’s smaller frame also limits players’ abilities to make quick decisions in the arena. Players with larger hands may find this to be a particularly taxing game to play portable.

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Jump Force Deluxe Edition Nintendo Switch Review An Ugly Substitute

The primary issue with this port is that the game was initially designed to be played on this generation’s best hardware. Textures are meant to be realistic and contrast with the cartoon designs of the characters. Photo realism is not something the Switch is good at, and it shows here. The game is severely downgraded from the original, especially in its particle effects. Each character in Jump Force uses powerful magic or energy with every attack, which means that particle effects are firing off constantly. The particles have not gone away, but are plagued with aliasing and severely harm the frame rate.

The frame rate is noticeably terrible in cutscenes and when exploring the game’s hub world. During fights, the game’s fast action and a system that seems to skip frames instead of slowing down when scenes threaten to eclipse the Switch’s capabilities help mask frame rate drops. This happens almost constantly, however, and is most noticeable during in-game cutscenes, where the game’s robotic motion capture and lifeless character design are exacerbated by this issue. Characters that look marginally expressive in the original version of Jump Force look lifeless and horrifying on the Nintendo Switch, and many players will likely begin skipping these cutscenes as quickly as they begin because watching them as they can be a nauseating experience. This is slightly improved when playing the game on a television instead of on a Switch Lite, but the problem persists even there.

Online play is likewise terrible, largely due to frame rate issues leading to large amounts of lag when attempting to fight against other players. There is just no fidelity to the player inputs when playing Jump Force online. This definitely affects the overall enjoyment of the experience, as part of the fun of a fighting game is going toe to toe with friends.

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All in all, Jump Force Deluxe Edition on the Nintendo Switch is about as fun as the original when it works. The game firing on all cylinders is such a rare occurrence due to the poor attempt to squeeze such a hardware-intensive game onto the Nintendo console, but this doesn’t always ruin the experience, especially if players go in with a deep enthusiasm for the characters on offer. The game is a decent way to pass time on the go, but is by no means a fully developed substitute for the PlayStation and Xbox versions, which remain the superior ways to enjoy Jump Force.

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