The Nintendo Switch 2 is less than two months away, and we couldn’t be more excited. Boasting such improved power over the original hardware, some Switch games will be treated to special paid Switch 2 Edition upgrades, with extra features and work put into them to revitalise the games to make the most of Switch 2 hardware.
We’ve already got a bunch of confirmed Switch 2 Editions coming, from Pokémon to Zelda, but gamers are greedy – we want more! Here are the five Switch games we’re desperate to see get Switch 2 Editions next, to make the most of the new hardware and see their popularity surge once more.
Bayonetta 3
I absolutely love Bayonetta. As a character, she’s iconic, as a gaming franchise, it’s almost perfect for me. The gameplay is addicting, the story is equal parts enticing and ridiculous, with great performances and a signature style of camp that just screams ‘Bayonetta’. That being said, the third entry was incredibly anticipated, but didn’t soar quite as well as it could have.
Bayonetta 3 was incredibly unpolished at points, with the gameplay pushing the hardware to its limits and often falling below 60fps, which is a particularly irritating experience in a game built for fluidity in combat. Textures are murky, and even the story gets a little too weird by the end. A Switch 2 Edition of Bayonetta 3 could utilize the hardware of the Switch 2 to brute force a stable frame rate, with enough room to also improve the quality of some textures and effects. We’d also be more than willing to pay the premium Switch 2 Edition Upgrade Pack price if it meant that a story expansion could flesh out and perhaps improve the narrative near the end of the game.
Metroid Prime Remastered
With Metroid Prime 4: Beyond confirmed to get a Switch 2 Edition, it only seems fair we give the same treatment to the wonderful Metroid Prime Remastered. Whilst it’s already a gorgeous visual experience, the potential improvements for Metroid Prime Remastered go beyond simply graphical.
We’d love to see the integration of mouse controls, the same way they’ll be included in Metroid Prime 4: Beyond Switch 2 Edition. If the developers over at Retro could reverse-engineer their mouse control set-up into an enhanced version of Metroid Prime Remastered, then we’d have half the series compatible with mouse controls, a major boost to Nintendo’s latest gimmick and a perfect fit with their only first-person shooter-style game series.
Xenoblade Chronicles Trilogy
Yeah, we’re definitely being a little greedy with this one, but hear us out. Xenoblade Chronicles is an absolutely incredible Japanese RPG franchise, with the core trilogy all being available on Nintendo Switch for a while now. Imagine an enhanced version of each title, with mouse controls for exploring the open world, improved frame rate and draw distances in Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and 3 which struggle somewhat, all in one collection.
We’d pay for them separately too, but the value bundle that could come from having all three together in one refined package would be worth anything they’d ask us to pay – even beyond that controversial $80 price point! We won’t be too ambitious and ask for Xenoblade Chronicles X included in there too, but Monolith Soft have a jewel of a franchise with Xenoblade Chronicles, and what better way to catapult hype for their next project than giving a definitive, perfected experience of their trilogy in one offering?
Astral Chain
This one might be a little more niche, but it deserves some love. Astral Chain is another title from PlatinumGames, known for their work on the formerly mentioned Bayonetta series. Set in a dystopian Earth of the future, the player takes control of a police force agent trying to prevent an inter-dimensional invasion. It’s epic, it’s flashy, it’s so much fun – but it kinda fell off. Releasing in late 2019, the game has its hype somewhat wash away as we entered the pandemic, and the flood of other Switch games dimmed its shine.
Astral Chain was hardly some huge failure, it sold over a million copies, but it deserves to be the start of a franchise. Nintendo has full ownership of the IP, and we really hope to see them do something with it and evolve it in future. It’s a great game, with an awesome soundtrack and a title worthy of success with a sequel, but let’s start by just revamping the first one. Make it flashier, add new content, go crazy with the graphics, and maybe Astral Chain could have another chance.
Fire Emblem: Three Houses
This may just be the best ugly game I have ever played. Fire Emblem: Three Houses has a rich narrative, unique social elements mixed with strategy gameplay to create a masterpiece of a game that’s just so ugly. It’s muddy, it’s flat, it plays like a beast but it looks like a Nintendo 64 game at points. It’s overwhelmingly the most popular title in the Fire Emblem franchise, so how about giving it a little boost before the next game releases?
We imagine a Switch 2 Edition of Fire Emblem: Three Houses to really deliver on the graphics, patching up the flat textured items that plague its world and making the land of Fódlan feel as three-dimensional as its characters and the gameplay. Adding extra content to a game that’s already massive would be unnecessary, but we think it’d sell a massive amount too given just how great this game is.
Just like that, there was our list of five games we need to see get a Switch 2 Edition sometime in the future, and preferably soon. Do you agree with our picks, or was there any you felt we missed? Let us know in the comments down below which Nintendo Switch games you feel deserve an enhanced Switch 2 Edition, and stay tuned to GameLuster for more breaking news, opinion features and Switch 2 coverage.
