Pokemon Legends: Arceus visuals are getting fixed by passionate modders

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Pokemon Legends: Arceus is by all accounts a bold reinvention of a beloved franchise. Realtime catching! An open-world! Yet if there’s one aspect of the Switch exclusive that was less than celebrated, it’s the game’s visuals - but modders are here to help.

Thanks to poor technical performance and environments that are often downright ugly, many fans came away disappointed by Pokemon’s first take on an open-world. Thankfully, however, fans have taken matters into their own hands - with modders giving Arceus a welcome visual overhaul.

While there are a (Magne)ton of mods already circulating for the game, YouTuber PurpleThunderNE highlights some of the most popular ones out today. The results? Well, they speak for themselves. From higher-quality textures to vastly improved water effects and draw distance, these work-in-progress improvements make an (open) world of difference. Interestingly, these are running on a modded Switch – not an emulator. While raising the resolution on a PC’s emulator is often an easy visual fix, these modded changes show how a few clever tweaks could have resulted in a better-looking game on the actual Switch hardware.

Still, it’s not just the visuals that modders have been messing with. Like any open-world game, Arceus has its fair share of flow-ruining design choices, and modders have also been busy tweaking these with a series of quality-of-life changes. Adding in-game map markers for once hidden collectibles, alternative control schemes, increased climbing speed, and the ability to swim for more than a few seconds without drowning, there’s a lot to love here.

That’s before we even get to the absolutely essential additions of equip-able Louis Vuitton bags, sweary sound effects, and adding in the