Buy Dark Souls: Remastered If you're a Switch owner, chances are that you've seen a fair number of ports this year. One of the most anticipated ports is Dark Souls : Remastered . Originally promised in May, the first Souls entry on a Nintendo console was delayed until October.

Dark times

Handheld Dark Souls; Runs the same in docked and handheld modes

Framerate often struggles to hit 30fps; Controls can be awkward in handheld; Inferior in every way to the other versions

If you don't like the changes in the PC version of Dark Souls Remastered, this is now 100% the definitive version of Dark Souls 1. Other than weird audio quality this is the game you remember!

When you port one of the most popular games in the world to a handheld console, you're going to have to make some sacrifices. As it happens, for Dark Souls Remastered, that's actually quite fitting – in a game all about wailing despair, self-immolation, and thankless punishment, it makes sense to...

Rewarding gameplay loop; Dense; intimidating atmosphere; Robust visual reworking; Great portability

Compressed audio; Occasional performance dips

After numerous delays Form Software's classic finally comes to Nintendo Switch, but does it work as well as fans had hoped

The smoother frame rate significantly improves the already excellent melee combat; Huge game world filled with treasures; Superb art design and boss encounters, including in the DLC

Still moments of occasional slowdown and inconsistent texture work; The original design can occasionally cross the line into perverse difficultly, particularly with regards to curses

It seems like only a few months ago that Dark Souls Remastered came out . Wait, it was only a few months ago and the Switch version was delayed you say Well gosh, makes you wonder what happened to that version of the game doesn't it

Still Dark Souls; Portable; Can be paused (kind of

Where did those frames even go; Which button is confirm; I have killed Sif so many times it's beginning to affect everyday life

Dark Souls: Remastered brought pain to FromSoftware fans all over again just before summer this year, but with the Switch version delayed, it's only now that we're getting the game for Nintendo's console.

Quality game, just very frustrating! If you're new to the Souls series be prepared, you're going to be restarting a lot!

It seems there is a competition between two 2011 RPGs to see exactly who can stay the most relevant. One way to do that is to release on every system that can handle it. Skyrim has taken an early lead there, but don't worry, Dark Souls isn't far behind.

difficult but satisfying; looks good on Switch; runs smoothly

serious control issues; amiibos do nothing; not for everyone

It is hard to believe that when Dark Souls released seven years ago, it only did so on two consoles, the PS3 and the Xbox 360. It went on to become the worldwide phenomenon we know today which has spawned numerous inspirations and knockoffs of challenging games.

Dark Souls on the go; Aged surprisingly well; Seeing new people try it out

Ported from what seems to the Xbox 360 version; Button mapping is wrong way round for the Switch; Handheld mode made it feel a bit tougher