Once you boot the game, you’ll also have the option of immediately jumping into adventure mode or clear some rifts, which is great for longtime fans who don’t want to have to slog through the campaign. Because this is a Switch port, players will also be able to collect some Zelda-themed Ganondorf loot. Outside of that, everything else offered in Eternal Collection is pretty much what you’d expect. You don’t need an internet connection to play locally, which makes Diablo III a very appealing game for long commutes with friends and family, when you just want to kill some time. In fact, I was blown away by how easy it was to connect two Switches at once and quickly hop into a game. Joining game sessions was easy enough, and it certainly enhanced the Switch multiplayer experience. On the other hand, if you’ve got multiple Switches, Diablo III: Eternal Collection also offers you the option of playing together via a wireless LAN connection, and it’s pretty great. Still, the game continues to run smoothly, and you shouldn’t run into any issues here. If you’re playing the game on a single Switch, there’s splitscreen support for both docked and handheld modes, though it’s considerably less comfortable on handheld. Over the past couple of days, I got the chance to test out the local co-op features. Of course, the Diablo III experience wouldn’t be complete without someone to play the game with. Diablo III: Eternal Collection plays and feels like Diablo should, and it’s made even better by the fact that you can take it with you anywhere you’d like. In spite of the graphical downgrade, the character and skill animations are still intact, and it’s good to see that nothing has been sacrificed on the gameplay front. You’ll still be getting that same game feel, with enemy bodies and skeleton corpses exploding into puddles of blood all over your screen. Regardless of how you want to play the game, Diablo III will run at a smooth and consistent 60 frames per second.

That said, I’ll gladly take the graphical downgrades if that was the only way Blizzard could get Diablo III to run this flawlessly in both docked and handheld modes. When you dock it, however, the game’s resolution is set at 960p, and it looks a little crisper.

In handheld mode, the game runs at 720p, and if you look closely, the character models and textures are quite obviously not as detailed or as pretty as they could be.

Graphically, it definitely takes a bit of a hit when you’re comparing the game to its PS4, Xbox One, and PC counterparts. Over the past weekend, I’ve been moving around a lot, and got to play quite a bit of Diablo during my commuting downtime.

Diablo 3 eternal edition review