Ongoing review of Link's Awakening for Switch

[Dark Jaguar]

It's been a while but I wanted to comment on one thing visually.  I hate the "blur effect" along the top and bottom of the screen.  It doesn't add anything to the game and just makes things more difficult to see than they should be.  Further, the game does sadly have a pretty poor frame rate from time to time.  Removing that blur filter would actually help to slightly alleviate that issue funnily enough.  It's a shame that a remake of an old game like this couldn't be optimized a little better.  I don't need ALL those particle and lighting effects after all.  All told though, it's not so detrimental that it gets in the way of playing the game, and the "underworld" tends to have much less slowdown.  And of course, it's worth mentioning that the original GB version had slowdown issues from time to time as well, though it feels like this version has more of it.