The brighter the environment, the less blurry Doom was but in Doom, things are hardly radiant. Where the HUD and a few slower actions were crisp, everything else in the world looks as if a soft blur has been painted over it in Photoshop. When I played Doom on my television from the Switch, it only seemed to accentuate its newfound graphical flaws. Maybe just surprised at how blurry the world of its Hell-overrun world is. All screencaps for this article were taken natively with the Switch. On the left is a screencap from Doom (2016) running on the PS4, on the right is a similar shot taken directly from the Switch port. Only now it's a bit blurrier than I remember. But when it comes to the moment-to-moment action, it's all in tact. Remarkably, id Software has shrunk the shooter down in scale in terms of its graphical fidelity. It's still overtly gory, shotgun-glorifying Doom, the fast-paced first-person-shooter revival from id Software that ripped everyone's heads off last year. It's not the best version of Doom-it certainly isn't the prettiest, not that I'd call Doom a particularly pretty game anyways. Instead, I was playing Doom in the most organic of ways: directly from the source, on my Nintendo Switch.

No, I did not just have a bunch of people dress up as demons to roleplay in front of me in a public setting as I held a controller in the air to pretend to play. No, I did not stream a PC version of the game to my laptop. No, I did not lug my PlayStation 4 and a giant television over. I played Doom at a coffee shop earlier this week.

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