On last week's SwitchArcade, we took a look at Bethesda's port of Doom, which is a great port with the potentially (for some) significant caveat that the overall graphical fidelity of the game is turned way down to make it run on the Switch. This had me pretty concerned for Bethesda's port of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, as while it is older, it feels like a "bigger" game and made sense to assume that similar sacrifices needed to be made. I'm happy to report that the Switch port of Skyrim is amazing. It's so good it makes me mad, which I'll get to later.

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Skyrim is an open world RPG and a continuation of the legendary Elder Scrolls series. The games are notorious for players being able to play them in any way they want, and that has only gotten better with Skyrim. You can follow the main story line, doing tiny side quests along the way, or, among loads of other paths, you can become a vampire and play the game by killing every human you come across and disregard the main campaign entirely. Multiple races with individual perks, a seemingly limitless skill system, tons of in-game factions to explore, and so much more makes Skyrim the kind of game you can play over and over in different ways for years. (In fact, I know people still doing this.) Basically, if you've never played Skyrim before, you need to fix that problem. Thankfully, Bethesda has made that easier than ever by ruthlessly porting Skyrim to every platfo...