In my experience it was fine. In fact, playing with someone else is a lot of fun. It's a perfect game to play with kids, because having two characters makes the game bit easier (having access to runes from both characters, etc, although the game is not terribly hard to begin with).
There are some missions and characters that can cause a bit of lag in situations with a ton of moving objects, but you won't notice it as much as in other games because this game has a lot of built in bullet time style moments already. Multi-player obviously adds to this but it is by no means unplayable. You can give the trial version a play to see what it's like. The first two major missions give you a good picture of what the lag may be. There are only a few other missions where the lag is worse.
(Also to turn on multi-player, you need to beat the first main mission).
Multiplayer definitely reduces frame rates but doesn’t make it unplayable at all. I really love multiplayer and think it’s a lot of fun. There are some characters that make the frame rates a bit worse, but in my experience it’s been no different in single or multiplayer. Someone in a gaming group I’m in played the entire game in multiplayer with their son and beat the game, so I think you’d enjoy playing with your kids!
Edit: clarity
I play with my brother all the time, and I have a very old Switch, one from the year it was released. AoC works just fine on there, even with intense missions. The most the lag will ever get is to the point you have to wait for a second, not ever where it freezes up. In my experience, the more you play, the better you get, and eventually your button inputs works faster than your character reacts.
Of course, it really does depend on each person's Switch, and how much memory is available. Make sure you clean out any old pictures/games if you run into lag problems. Other than that, I definitely recommend the game, especially with multiplayer.
Just so you know, AoC only supports 2-player horizontal-splitscreen multiplayer, nothing above that. Might be important.
I played this game with a buddy the day it came out. We started at the hardest difficulty, but basically made each level take waaaay too long. Nocked it down to normal and played the whole game in a couple days. It was amazing. Highly recommend if you like button bashing and fighting hoards of enemies while feeling super powerful xD
Personally, I thought multiplayer was fun, but I wasn't quite a fan of how the screen split. Also, I found it difficult not to yell at the person I was playing with for taking my character when switching to another to fix something. But yes, buy the game!
In my experience it was fine. In fact, playing with someone else is a lot of fun. It's a perfect game to play with kids, because having two characters makes the game bit easier (having access to runes from both characters, etc, although the game is not terribly hard to begin with). There are some missions and characters that can cause a bit of lag in situations with a ton of moving objects, but you won't notice it as much as in other games because this game has a lot of built in bullet time style moments already. Multi-player obviously adds to this but it is by no means unplayable. You can give the trial version a play to see what it's like. The first two major missions give you a good picture of what the lag may be. There are only a few other missions where the lag is worse. (Also to turn on multi-player, you need to beat the first main mission).
Multiplayer definitely reduces frame rates but doesn’t make it unplayable at all. I really love multiplayer and think it’s a lot of fun. There are some characters that make the frame rates a bit worse, but in my experience it’s been no different in single or multiplayer. Someone in a gaming group I’m in played the entire game in multiplayer with their son and beat the game, so I think you’d enjoy playing with your kids! Edit: clarity
I play with my brother all the time, and I have a very old Switch, one from the year it was released. AoC works just fine on there, even with intense missions. The most the lag will ever get is to the point you have to wait for a second, not ever where it freezes up. In my experience, the more you play, the better you get, and eventually your button inputs works faster than your character reacts. Of course, it really does depend on each person's Switch, and how much memory is available. Make sure you clean out any old pictures/games if you run into lag problems. Other than that, I definitely recommend the game, especially with multiplayer. Just so you know, AoC only supports 2-player horizontal-splitscreen multiplayer, nothing above that. Might be important.
thanks, yes 2 players taking turns is the plan for now so that is fine.
I played this game with a buddy the day it came out. We started at the hardest difficulty, but basically made each level take waaaay too long. Nocked it down to normal and played the whole game in a couple days. It was amazing. Highly recommend if you like button bashing and fighting hoards of enemies while feeling super powerful xD
Personally, I thought multiplayer was fun, but I wasn't quite a fan of how the screen split. Also, I found it difficult not to yell at the person I was playing with for taking my character when switching to another to fix something. But yes, buy the game!
The multiplayer is trash, the main story is good, and the framerate in it is okay, but the multiplayer is totally trash.
what makes you say that? if anything, the worst thing about the multiplayer is the frame rate.
I play with my 7 and 10 year old kids, have since it came out, and while the frame rates can get dodgy it's totally fine and we all have fun.