10 Recent Video Games Sent Out To Die

9. Kingdom Hearts Integrum

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Even though the Kingdom Heart series has been entertaining gamers for decades, the series was never playable on Nintendo home consoles. But this February, the adored trilogy, Kingdom Hearts Integrum, was finally available on the Switch... but not physically.

Instead, Nintendo users can only play them on the Cloud. Because these beloved RPGs needs constant Internet access to function, this robs the player of the chance to play the games on the go, (which is the whole point of the frickin' Switch!)

But if you got perfect Internet connection, the trio of games are a blast, right? Nope. Not only is the frame-rate atrocious, you can't see what's happening most of the time since half the screen is filled with the message, "Your network conditions are not good enough to play the game smoothly". This lag makes many sections, including boss fights impossible since these encounters require an absurd level of precision.

What's worse is there's no justified reason why this Kingdom Heart port should have these problems in the first place. The first two entries came out on the PS2! If the Switch can run Doom Eternal and the Witcher 3, why can't Nintendo's most powerful system handle 20-year-old games?

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