{"id":373374,"date":"2025-08-25T22:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T22:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/373374\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T22:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T22:06:12","slug":"weve-now-got-our-first-look-at-elden-ring-in-handheld-mode-for-switch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/373374\/","title":{"rendered":"We’ve Now Got Our First Look At Elden Ring In Handheld Mode For Switch 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Following on from our first glimpse<\/a> at Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition<\/a> running on Switch 2 via docked mode, new footage has been posted online to showcase how the game is holding up in handheld mode.<\/p>\n

General sentiments from hands-on sessions \u2013 including our own<\/a> \u2013 is that Elden Ring struggles somewhat in handheld mode, with frame rate being a particularly disappointing factor. The new footage, posted by @NGamz<\/a> on YouTube, does very little to either confirm or deny the initial feedback from early players, thanks in large part to the overall quality (or lack thereof \u2013 hello, 720p) of the footage itself.<\/p>\n

Still, you can get a general sense of how things are holding up, and it looks… okay..? Again, judging frame rate from an over-the-shoulder perspective isn’t ideal, so it’s tough to really gauge whether there are any jitters or hiccups affecting the gameplay.<\/p>\n

The footage showcases the initial area of Limgrave, with the player navigating toward Stormgate and Stormhill while slaying a bunch of enemies along the way. The video above is just one of three posted on NGamz channel, so feel free to check out the others if you want to see more; truth be told, though, it’s just more of the same.<\/p>\n

There’s still no release date for Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition at the time of writing, but the debut trailer reveal indicated that it would launch later this year. Unless initial feedback has spooked FromSoftware into pouring more time into the game, there’s nothing to indicate that it might slip into the new year.<\/p>\n

What do you make of the Elden Ring footage showcased here? Is it Tarnished in more than just name? Let us know.<\/p>\n

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Nintendo Life\u2019s resident horror fanatic, when he\u2019s not knee-deep in Resident Evil and Silent Hill lore, Ollie likes to dive into a good horror book while nursing a lovely cup of tea. He also enjoys long walks and listens to everything from TOOL to Chuck Berry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watch on YouTube Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube832k Following on from our first glimpse at Elden Ring:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[270,53,16,15,614],"class_list":{"0":"post-373374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-nintendo-switch-2","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-upcoming-releases"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115091681126453061","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}