It was a WiiU game, it was propaganda for their own peripheral to try and save a failing system, the same way Skyward Sword did for the Wii.
Try playing it on the WiiU and most of the design decisions make far more sense and almost every aspect of the system shows how it was deliberately designed with the Gamepad in mind to show how amazing it could be.
They just decided midway through development that the console couldn't be saved and then turned it into a launch title for the Switch instead, even if that is the worst version of the game.
Huh. I did play it on switch, but I dropped it instantly when I got the smartphone because I can't stand those things. Though I was already pretty turned off at the time because that came shortly after the cutscene explaining how the great evil could only be defeated by merging man with machine.
Yeah, the Switch version lacks the major tech problems (like severe lag around lightning) of the WiiU but the Sheikah Slate is literally just the WiiU Gamepad. Like you'll have access to your map and many of your functions just on the little screen between the buttons instead of it being part of the game UI. It is by far the best way to play the game and is a great proof of concept for the WiiU's functionality if fully realized.
It just came far too late to save the console and that functionality was highly limited if the entire game wasn't built to support it. And even then it could fail like Star Fox Zero did.
I absolutely hate the game itself, but the WiiU version using the gamepad is a legitimately solid experience for just how well it does work for what its trying to do.
It was a WiiU game, it was propaganda for their own peripheral to try and save a failing system, the same way Skyward Sword did for the Wii.
Try playing it on the WiiU and most of the design decisions make far more sense and almost every aspect of the system shows how it was deliberately designed with the Gamepad in mind to show how amazing it could be.
They just decided midway through development that the console couldn't be saved and then turned it into a launch title for the Switch instead, even if that is the worst version of the game.
Huh. I did play it on switch, but I dropped it instantly when I got the smartphone because I can't stand those things. Though I was already pretty turned off at the time because that came shortly after the cutscene explaining how the great evil could only be defeated by merging man with machine.
Yeah, the Switch version lacks the major tech problems (like severe lag around lightning) of the WiiU but the Sheikah Slate is literally just the WiiU Gamepad. Like you'll have access to your map and many of your functions just on the little screen between the buttons instead of it being part of the game UI. It is by far the best way to play the game and is a great proof of concept for the WiiU's functionality if fully realized.
It just came far too late to save the console and that functionality was highly limited if the entire game wasn't built to support it. And even then it could fail like Star Fox Zero did.
I absolutely hate the game itself, but the WiiU version using the gamepad is a legitimately solid experience for just how well it does work for what its trying to do.