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Mortal Kombat 1 (On Switch)

Screenshot: NetherRealm Studios / Kotaku
Screenshot: NetherRealm Studios / Kotaku

Come on, y’all knew this was going to be here. It’sa modern-day Mortal Kombat game on the Nintendo Switch, the oldest of the current-gen systems. So of course, the optimization of NetherRealm Studios’ latest fighter on the handheld hybrid was a big question mark. When it came out on September 8, though, that question was answered. It was bad. Like, really bad. Animations and cutscenes took forever to load. Framerates dipped on the regular. Textures were nonexistent, making character models look like wax figures. And because performance was so shoddy, you’d drop a combo and wouldn’t know if it was your fault or the game’s. It’ssuch an obvious downgrade from the PlayStation and Xbox versions that you shouldn’t even bother playing Mortal Kombat 1 here.

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