While single Joy-Con controls leave a bit to be desired (lack of buttons forces either the block or interact button to clicking in the stick), I’m rarely in a situation where it’s my only controller option. Having this combat on the go, at a framerate that’s the same as my console version, is pretty fantastic. The downgrades are understandable and honestly acceptable given the end result. Interactive Entertainment and NetherRealm Studios/Warner Bros.
In the Switch version, a sheet of fog hides all of that. This results in the removal of one of the Krypt’s best moments: In other versions, opening a certain door leads to the player walking out and seeing the pit arena from the original Mortal Kombat, with Shang Tsung’s island cast in the moonlit background and fighters duking it out on a distant bridge. The visual drop-off is most noticeable with the Krypt, which has a hazy fog cast over it to lower the draw distance and textures that look like they haven’t fully loaded. Cutscenes are comparable in quality to their console counterpart, though the transition into fights is all the more jarring with the Switch’s muddier in-game graphics, creating a noticeable difference between “gameplay” and “movie,” as opposed to seamless segues. One of the main draws of Mortal Kombat 11 - its story mode - makes the leap well enough. This downgrade doesn’t affect gameplay, as it’s still easy to see Scorpion’s spear or Sub-Zero’s ice ball. X-ray shots seem to lack in the bone-crunching department, and overall the characters appear less detailed. Anti-aliasing is low, so characters (notably their hair) look pixelated and sometimes oddly shiny. The trade-off is a marked decrease in visuals, especially resolutions, lighting, and textures. Even in handheld, the game happily spins along at 60 fps, only mildly hiccuping during transitions to cutscene moments like fatalities or into story mode vignettes. Since Mortal Kombat 11, like most fighting games, has moves that start and stop in fractions of a second, 60 frames per second is the benchmark to clear for not just fidelity but raw balance and feasibility.
But in the move to the Nintendo Switch hardware, some concessions have been made to run on the hardware’s weaker specs. The fighting of MK11 is, as we noted in our review, some of NetherRealm’s best. While all the general combat system makes a solid transition to handheld, both newfound issues and the impeding in-game economy hold back this specific version back. Developer Shiver has ported Mortal Kombat 11 to the Nintendo Switch, managing to fit the gore-laden carnage into a portable form.
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