Zelda: Link’s Awakening on Switch is a fantastic game marred by a few jarring performance issues.
Alongside of the framerate drops (which mostly happen in the open world, and in portable mode) there’s an annoying blur effect on the bottom of the screen. Well, thanks to a mod from MelonSpeedruns and Rodrigo, that annoyance is no more: so long as you’re willing to dig into the wide world of Switch modding.
The mod, called “No DOF Blur,” is described as a “very simple mod” that eliminates the distant blur out of Link’s Awakening. You can find the instructions and the mod itself in the description of the below YouTube video.
This kind of stuff is incredible, and reminds me of the tireless efforts of Peter “Durante” Thoman, who fixed multiple big-budget games with mods that were painless to install. We have no idea if a real patch is in the cards for Nintendo, but it’s nice to know that it’s possible.
Source: Destructoid Someone modded out that vaseline-blur effect in Link’s Awakening Switch