{"id":943,"date":"2025-10-17T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/?p=943"},"modified":"2025-10-20T14:06:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T14:06:43","slug":"mini-review-pokemon-legends-z-a-switch-mostly-stable-much-less-shiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/17\/mini-review-pokemon-legends-z-a-switch-mostly-stable-much-less-shiny\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini Review: Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Z-A (Switch) &#8211; Mostly Stable, Much Less Shiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An evolution on Switch 1, but not a Mega one.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_legends_z-a\">Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Z-A<\/a> on Switch is &#8216;fine&#8217;. For a lot of people, that&#8217;ll be enough. And certainly, even I&#8217;m surprised it&#8217;s as stable as it is after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_legends_arceus\">Legends: Arceus<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_scarlet_and_violet\">Scarlet &amp; Violet<\/a> had more than their fair share of performance woes \u2014 the latter of which is almost a completely different game with the free Switch 2 patch.<\/p>\n<p>But, this should go without saying, If you have the newer console and you want Legends: Z-A, get it on there. You can read my general thoughts on the entire game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch-2\/pokemon-legends-z-a-nintendo-switch-2-edition\">in my review<\/a>, but performance-wise, 60fps, sharper image quality, and better stability means it&#8217;s a stronger experience overall by a wide margin on the Switch 2.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon-legends-z-a\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An evolution on Switch 1, but not a Mega one. Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Z-A on Switch is &#8216;fine&#8217;. For a lot of people, that&#8217;ll be enough. And certainly, even I&#8217;m surprised it&#8217;s as stable as it is after Legends: Arceus and Scarlet &amp; Violet had more than their fair share of performance woes \u2014 the latter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nintendo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":944,"href":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions\/944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supercomtech.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}