How we doing folks? What a week of games! My goodness it's non stop right now. Here is another port, let me know your thoughts on it below and if you are picking up up. If you missed our Ni No Kuni review then check it out here ruclips.net/video/1fWiyVjHhik/видео.html Darksiders The Warmastered Edition Review ruclips.net/video/cFrLKe14Peg/видео.html Have a great week 👍
Phew just watching this now. I was worried I was too harsh on the visuals but you agree. Good stuff. There's always that "was I being far too harsh" moment. Mark
To be fair, the PS4 and Xbox one ports are not that great either. I noticed framerate drop on those systems as well. Your not losing out by buying this on Switch/
I first played this on the Onlive micro console (streaming) and it was just awesome. I then bought it on WiiU and it was a joy to play on the tablet controller. To this day I don't think there are many games with a better soundtrack than this. For me it's the best game in the series but as I own it on 5 consoles already I can't justify dipping for a sixth time ;)
I never played darksiders or the sequel back in the days and I'm enjoying both games a lot on my switch. They are affordable and you get a lot for your money. I hope they release the 3rd part also on switch. I just subbed because physical copies for switch rock. I don't like buying digital only. I will wait till a physical copy releases. Even If I had to wait months...
Absolutely Stefan! Totally agree, we are collectors and enjoy the physical stuff too. Thanks for subbing and really glad you enjoy the game. Part 3 will be ported I'm sure.
I mean if Darksiders 3 is ported to switch, they would need to do a lot of optomisation. Note that it freezes when loading areas and runs at 30fps with dips to the 20s on the ps4 pro
I played this game on the WiiU. I remember at the time that performance on that system as well as the others the game originally released on was spotty in areas especially in the forest area just at the beginning of the game. No surprise that the Deathinitive edition still has those performance issues. My takeaway from the game was that it was fantastic except for 3 things. The first was the frame rate drops in dense areas, the second was the middle part of the story where a certain character spat in your face and trashed your deeds up to that point and last was the end boss where the developers ran out of money. Did they fix the last point in this release?
Great review! The artwork of legendary comic book artist, Joe Madureira, sold me on the first Darksiders and I have been a fan every since. Though if they did not have a great story and game play the series would not holdup. Glad to see that both are present. Even a few frame rate dips will not diminish the fun for me. I love the story and the character design. Beautiful artwork all round. I am definitely getting this game (physical)! With all the core content and the included expansions I know I will have many hours of enjoyment. Thanks
Great review, but I'm a bit gutted about the lack of performance mode. I got the first Switch Darksiders ( On your recommendation ) and only ever use that mode.
Good review. Unfortunately, I never expected it to run super well. I've played this game on PS3, PS4, Wii U and PC and it's pretty stuttery/laggy on every platform. It's such a good game, just a shame they never really pulled it together 100%.
Since I travel for work the switch is amazing on planes. I will probably wait for a digital sale on this like most of my others. I don't recall performance option and no 60fps on the xbox one version. I could be wrong but there was only a patch for a broken achievement no xbox one x enhanced. Love your reviews.
Appreciate that very much buddy, thank you for taking the time to comment and share how you play. Most of my games are digital but I end up also trying to find the physical editions. Hope to see you on more vids 👍😃
*Switch watch & switch up uploads darksiders 2 deathfinitive edition review* Lol, anyways shame the game doesn’t run as well as its 1st games port. Hopefully THQ Nordic dies patch in a performance mode. I’ll keep it in the ol eshop wish list queue. Thanks for the heads up.
Thanks for the feedback, we write out our reviews and compact them as much as we can. Some of our reviews are short others much longer. Just depends on the game really. Thanks again.
Hi Juan! Great stuff mate! Still need to check out the Darksiders games. Gonna get #1 and then by the time I get to 2, hopefully be patched a bit better
It makes me sad they chose res over performance when making the deathinitve edition on all systems. 30fps on ps4 and has frame drops and shadows are 8bit sprites.
I'm mostly pleased with the port, but disappointed in some discrepancies in functionality. For instance, not being able to change weapon names anymore. The option doesn't do anything, just sits there.
Thanks. I gonna wait on this one. To many games to play. Ori is up next for me. I’m just finishing Child of Light for the first time. Seems like a good primer for Ori.
thats a shame, i was really looking forward to this one since I prefer it over the first (seriously). Too bad but hey, at least we will send a very clear message if this won’t sell as good as the first did and they consoder fixing it and give it the same attention. pitty....
One less lonely memer well the last game didn’t run at a locked 60 either but it stayed close to 60. For the $30 price i’d expect a little effort put in to make it worth buying again. Shouldn’t be too difficult to get a performance mode of some kind.
Darksiders 2 is vastly bigger than Darksiders 1 and has a lot more going on, if you really care about performance, play it on PC, PS4 Pro or Xbox One X.
Won't be picking this up right away. While Death looks fucking cool (and for some reason looks like Casey Jones from Ninja Turtles) I wasn't a fan of Darksiders II. I did however recently pick up the first game physical.
The second game is the best by far. Huge, interesting world with lots of progression in the leveling, weapons and armor. You always find something a little better than what you got so you swap it out. I love that. Cool characters and story. I really wished they would’ve expanded on this with the 3rd game but they didn’t. Then the fourth game goes in a totally different direction with the gameplay. They totally lost their way and then drove it off somewhere else. I liked 3 but I was disappointed. So I have it Darksiders 2 then 1 then 3. We’ll see where the 4th goes. I’m still buying it because I’m invested in this shit and now I want to see how it turns out. I don’t know what they did but the second game was so much better than the third and different but better than the first. WHY???!!!! 🤦♂️
I really don't get why the Darksiders Deathinitive edition has always been the one that THQ half assed. The three bare basic things that a good remaster should do is to improve load times, have the game run at 60 fps and have the game run at a higher resolution (unless on switch but that just means there should be a performance and quality mode toggle). Deathinitive edition does 1 of those three things on all consoles
I saw it on sale at Gamestop for $20 so I brought it. It is lacking compared to the first Darksiders for sure especially no quality or performance modes. But I’ll play through it regardless. Hopefully THQ patches the game
These Darksiders games are the perfect example of "nothing special" to me. They seem marginally enjoyable, just absurdly generic in what they are doing, there's nothing original at all about them and they don't do anything better than their leading competition. Literally any platinum game just smashes these for example, any Devil May Cry, any Zelda, any puzzle platformer. I guess it's appealing to someone to have this specific mix of genres together but for me, nah, not unless it's doing these genres really well.
@@SwitchWatch a potato pc can run this at 60fps, the Recommended GPU and CPU for this game costs chump change, not to mention how little ram you need. System Requirements OS: Windows XP, Windows Vista SP1, Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 10 (64bit) Processor: 2.0Ghz Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor or AMD equivalent. Memory: 4 GB RAM. Graphics: NVIDIA 9800 GT 512 MB Video Card or AMD equivalent.
@@MedIevalCyrax pretty sure those specs are for the original Darksiders 2. The Deathinitive Edition has engine improvements, especially with lighting and physical based rendering & materials - big changes over last gen & OG versions and this bumps up the requirements quite a bit too. And on that note, the original is not available for purchase on Steam anymore, only the remaster is. Funny, because there's both OG & remastered versions for the first game on there
How we doing folks? What a week of games! My goodness it's non stop right now. Here is another port, let me know your thoughts on it below and if you are picking up up. If you missed our Ni No Kuni review then check it out here ruclips.net/video/1fWiyVjHhik/видео.html
Darksiders The Warmastered Edition Review ruclips.net/video/cFrLKe14Peg/видео.html
Have a great week 👍
Phew just watching this now. I was worried I was too harsh on the visuals but you agree. Good stuff. There's always that "was I being far too harsh" moment. Mark
I also thought it was just me! Was dissapointed compared to the options we had on part 1. Thanks, Juan 👍
To be fair, the PS4 and Xbox one ports are not that great either. I noticed framerate drop on those systems as well. Your not losing out by buying this on Switch/
Thanks for sharing pal. 👍
It suffers no frame drops on the more powerful consoles, ps4 pros boost mode solves everything and X version is solid.
Helvete Ulver base PS4 model has big frame drops for this game
@@MedIevalCyrax so a xbox 360 and ps3 game from 2012 can only run at a stable 30fps on a system that can run Nioh, God of War and DMC5 at 60fps?
@@teneesh3376 Darksiders 2 "was" supposed to get 60fps patches after Darksiders 3 and its DLC were done.
I first played this on the Onlive micro console (streaming) and it was just awesome.
I then bought it on WiiU and it was a joy to play on the tablet controller.
To this day I don't think there are many games with a better soundtrack than this.
For me it's the best game in the series but as I own it on 5 consoles already I can't justify dipping for a sixth time ;)
WOW a 6th time! So you dipped 5 times already now that is dedication buddy 👍🦉
Xenoblade 1 has a superior soundtrack
I never played darksiders or the sequel back in the days and I'm enjoying both games a lot on my switch. They are affordable and you get a lot for your money. I hope they release the 3rd part also on switch.
I just subbed because physical copies for switch rock. I don't like buying digital only. I will wait till a physical copy releases. Even If I had to wait months...
Absolutely Stefan! Totally agree, we are collectors and enjoy the physical stuff too. Thanks for subbing and really glad you enjoy the game. Part 3 will be ported I'm sure.
I mean if Darksiders 3 is ported to switch, they would need to do a lot of optomisation. Note that it freezes when loading areas and runs at 30fps with dips to the 20s on the ps4 pro
Today's your lucky day part 3 is now available
I played this game on the WiiU. I remember at the time that performance on that system as well as the others the game originally released on was spotty in areas especially in the forest area just at the beginning of the game. No surprise that the Deathinitive edition still has those performance issues.
My takeaway from the game was that it was fantastic except for 3 things. The first was the frame rate drops in dense areas, the second was the middle part of the story where a certain character spat in your face and trashed your deeds up to that point and last was the end boss where the developers ran out of money. Did they fix the last point in this release?
Great review! The artwork of legendary comic book artist, Joe Madureira, sold me on the first Darksiders and I have been a fan every since. Though if they did not have a great story and game play the series would not holdup. Glad to see that both are present. Even a few frame rate dips will not diminish the fun for me. I love the story and the character design. Beautiful artwork all round. I am definitely getting this game (physical)! With all the core content and the included expansions I know I will have many hours of enjoyment. Thanks
Thanks Pal, agree m8, the game is great, don't let the frame rate issue spoil it as it's still fun for sure. Appreciated m8 👍🦉
Thanks Juan, you and your team always have quality content. My only complaint is that you can’t make enough videos for me. Keep up the great work
That's gotta be good 👍😃 wish we could make more man. Really do but unless this is full time it's won't happen 🙁 we will have to work harder 💪
Great review, but I'm a bit gutted about the lack of performance mode. I got the first Switch Darksiders ( On your recommendation ) and only ever use that mode.
Bit of a shame for sure buddy 😔
Got it, love it, definitely recommend it 😁
Been enjoying playing this on Switch. I think it runs pretty well all things considered.
Carsten glad to hear that ....I have it on PS4, but been considering this one for its portability
Good review. Unfortunately, I never expected it to run super well. I've played this game on PS3, PS4, Wii U and PC and it's pretty stuttery/laggy on every platform. It's such a good game, just a shame they never really pulled it together 100%.
Since I travel for work the switch is amazing on planes. I will probably wait for a digital sale on this like most of my others. I don't recall performance option and no 60fps on the xbox one version. I could be wrong but there was only a patch for a broken achievement no xbox one x enhanced. Love your reviews.
Appreciate that very much buddy, thank you for taking the time to comment and share how you play. Most of my games are digital but I end up also trying to find the physical editions. Hope to see you on more vids 👍😃
Great review Juan. This is definitely a buy plus it’s kinda on the cheaper side at $30. I never played 2 but loved the first one.
Thanks m8, appreciate you coming by my man
*Switch watch & switch up uploads darksiders 2 deathfinitive edition review*
Lol, anyways shame the game doesn’t run as well as its 1st games port. Hopefully THQ Nordic dies patch in a performance mode. I’ll keep it in the ol eshop wish list queue.
Thanks for the heads up.
Most welcome as always pal 👍
I think they should have worked on the performance mode and gotten that on the game card. Servers may not last forever to hand out the patches.
Buy it and find out yourself it's been good for me
Played this on the Wii U already, great game if you’ve not experienced it before
Very good indeed!
There was only one graphics setting? What did the toggle really do/were there any performance gains from switching it off?
Nothing just some gamma setting which doesn't do much at all
I really like SwitchWatch review but can you try to make thame a little bit shorter ? Something around 8 minutes should be perfect.
Thanks for the feedback, we write out our reviews and compact them as much as we can. Some of our reviews are short others much longer. Just depends on the game really. Thanks again.
No. 8 is too short. Make them longer please.
Do you have options as to what will be on your advertisements? I got a weird mormon thing.
We have no control at all. Whatever RUclips wants. Shame really
I'll deathinitely pick this one up :)
😃 love it!
Hi Juan! Great stuff mate! Still need to check out the Darksiders games. Gonna get #1 and then by the time I get to 2, hopefully be patched a bit better
Awesome Joel, thanks a lot buddy 👍😃
This is on sale for 10 dollars on the switch store now. Would you say it's worth it?
Definitely!!!
Picked it up for 10 dollars also.
Darksiders 1 was incredible on Switch. It’s a shame that this port does not provide same amount of quality. A performance patch will be welcomed.
Indeed buddy 💪
Have any performance patches been released at all on the Switch?
Not that i know of but it was running well and has two modes to choose from for performance in the options.
@@SwitchWatch I was told there was no such option for performance mode in darksiders 2 on the switch.
I donwload this game free on xbox 360 gold,worth it to play it?? I never really played.
Worth playing yes 👍
It makes me sad they chose res over performance when making the deathinitve edition on all systems. 30fps on ps4 and has frame drops and shadows are 8bit sprites.
Already plan on getting this!
Hope you enjoy it 👍🦉
@@SwitchWatch Loved it on PS3. Wish it was a prepurchase. I would've bought it already.
@@craigauclair4026 if you loved it on PS3 you will love it on here too buddy 😃👍
I'm mostly pleased with the port, but disappointed in some discrepancies in functionality. For instance, not being able to change weapon names anymore. The option doesn't do anything, just sits there.
Thanks. I gonna wait on this one. To many games to play. Ori is up next for me. I’m just finishing Child of Light for the first time. Seems like a good primer for Ori.
For sure!
Buying my copy tomorrow hopefully a patch will come soon
Let's hope so pal 👍😃
thats a shame, i was really looking forward to this one since I prefer it over the first (seriously).
Too bad but hey, at least we will send a very clear message if this won’t sell as good as the first did and they consoder fixing it and give it the same attention. pitty....
Bit of a pity not the end of the world but people will notice it. Still a very good game of that there is no doubt.
"bosses are fun to fight"
construction hulk : " hahaha good luck fighting me with delay bomb pick ups !"
Wow just watching this review on this channel I subscribe now he describe the game pretty good
Thank you 😃
I loved having the performance mode on the first game. I don’t understand why they didn’t provide one. Thats a no buy from me.
Because this game is much more demanding?
It cant run at 60fps obviously
One less lonely memer well the last game didn’t run at a locked 60 either but it stayed close to 60. For the $30 price i’d expect a little effort put in to make it worth buying again. Shouldn’t be too difficult to get a performance mode of some kind.
@@dashrendar8739 it wont be 60fps it will be like 40 something
Darksiders 2 is vastly bigger than Darksiders 1 and has a lot more going on, if you really care about performance, play it on PC, PS4 Pro or Xbox One X.
Hopefully they will patch it soon.. fantastic review Juan like always.. I really want this game cause I don’t have the first one
The legend Craig! Thanks my man 👍😃
SwitchWatch u welcome man 👍🏽🤘🏾🍻
Was there ever a patch for this?
Won't be picking this up right away. While Death looks fucking cool (and for some reason looks like Casey Jones from Ninja Turtles) I wasn't a fan of Darksiders II. I did however recently pick up the first game physical.
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Yeah I'm skipping this if it runs worse than it did on 360, ps3, and Wii U. That's sad because I love this game and was really looking forward to it.
The second game is the best by far. Huge, interesting world with lots of progression in the leveling, weapons and armor. You always find something a little better than what you got so you swap it out. I love that. Cool characters and story. I really wished they would’ve expanded on this with the 3rd game but they didn’t. Then the fourth game goes in a totally different direction with the gameplay. They totally lost their way and then drove it off somewhere else. I liked 3 but I was disappointed. So I have it Darksiders 2 then 1 then 3. We’ll see where the 4th goes. I’m still buying it because I’m invested in this shit and now I want to see how it turns out. I don’t know what they did but the second game was so much better than the third and different but better than the first. WHY???!!!! 🤦♂️
Excellent review for a fantastic game 😎
Thank you Scott, appreciate it 👍🦉
I really don't get why the Darksiders Deathinitive edition has always been the one that THQ half assed. The three bare basic things that a good remaster should do is to improve load times, have the game run at 60 fps and have the game run at a higher resolution (unless on switch but that just means there should be a performance and quality mode toggle). Deathinitive edition does 1 of those three things on all consoles
thank you for the review
You are welcome 👍😃
This game at PSvita now?? If have.. I want buy it
No and it will never be on the Ps Vita
I saw it on sale at Gamestop for $20 so I brought it. It is lacking compared to the first Darksiders for sure especially no quality or performance modes. But I’ll play through it regardless. Hopefully THQ patches the game
I love this game!
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You’re like maybe the only youtuber out there who actually cares about our week 😅
Thanks pal. I actually do hope you have a nice week and weekend 👍😃
is anyone having problems playing this game without internet connection?
Shakedown Hawaii physical release sold out in 15 minutes... 😆
I was sad to see I wouldn't get a shot at a physical copy of Transistor.
(T_T)
These Darksiders games are the perfect example of "nothing special" to me. They seem marginally enjoyable, just absurdly generic in what they are doing, there's nothing original at all about them and they don't do anything better than their leading competition. Literally any platinum game just smashes these for example, any Devil May Cry, any Zelda, any puzzle platformer. I guess it's appealing to someone to have this specific mix of genres together but for me, nah, not unless it's doing these genres really well.
Appreciate you sharing your opinion 👍😃🦉
I have this one on the Wii U.
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If people are concerned about performance, just get this game on PC or play it on the more powerful versions of the consoles.
Should not really have these problems for an older game like this though. Shame really as not everyone has that luxury
@@SwitchWatch a potato pc can run this at 60fps, the Recommended GPU and CPU for this game costs chump change, not to mention how little ram you need.
System Requirements
OS: Windows XP, Windows Vista SP1, Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 10 (64bit) Processor: 2.0Ghz Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor or AMD equivalent. Memory: 4 GB RAM. Graphics: NVIDIA 9800 GT 512 MB Video Card or AMD equivalent.
@@MedIevalCyrax pretty sure those specs are for the original Darksiders 2. The Deathinitive Edition has engine improvements, especially with lighting and physical based rendering & materials - big changes over last gen & OG versions and this bumps up the requirements quite a bit too.
And on that note, the original is not available for purchase on Steam anymore, only the remaster is. Funny, because there's both OG & remastered versions for the first game on there
@@JackFrost-1856 you can get a PC with potato parts for less than 299.99 to get this game running at 60fps.
@@MedIevalCyrax pretty sure you can, with equal performance to PS4/XB1 or better even. But that's besides the point. Switch isn't PC hardware
Sucks it has performance issues. Hopefully, it'll be patched. Looks fun.
Does a bit, thanks for coming by buddy 👍😃
This game's performance has issues on all systems. They never bothered patching so just grab it.
There are no performance issues. It's identical to all other versions. Great port.
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No...no! *MY WALLET, MY MONEY!!*
Better than the ole one
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Looks good thinking about getting it if the game gets patched but for now time to get some delicious RPGs
#STAROCEANFDR🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👌🏽
Oof was hoping this be s great for pet
port
It's not far off but yea it was suffering a little throughout.
Danksliders
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LagSiders: Mediocre Edition