Being the oldest of the bunch, Bioshock places the least amount of strain on the Switch running at a stable 30fps without ever dropping, even when the chaos begins to rise to a level when a few stutters would be more than expected. It still has some of the best writing you can hope to find in a video game to this day and if you haven’t already experienced it, then it’s high time you got on that.Īnd the Switch would be an utterly fine place to do so. A fallen, underwater city driven to ruin by the philosophy of hardcore objectivism peddled by the city’s leader, Andrew Ryan. It’s been over a decade since the original game was released and there’s no drought of video essays, think pieces and even academic papers of how the game masterfully subverts mechanical expectations with that of the haunting story of Rapture. Look, if you’re coming into this review expecting a deep dive into the mechanics and narrative of the Bioshock games, you’ll be sorely disappointed. Yet despite all those roadblocks, it proves to be one of the better mainstream Switch ports on the market. But all three of those games released a long time ago, as much as it probably hurts to hear for all you folks in your early 30s to hear, so not only does the Switch port of The Bioshock Collection have to stand up to test of time but it must also contend with the diminished power of the hybrid system it’s running on. Having said that, when I did eventually get around to playing the first game, alongside Bioshock 2 and Bioshock Infinite when that eventually released, the hype surrounding the series was very clearly understandable. See, I was only twelve when the first game dropped in 2007 and my folks weren’t all that stoked on my pre-teen brain seeing horrific images of men in large diving suits drilling holes into the chest of genetically addled drug-addicts. I was a little late to the party when it came to playing Bioshock.
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