[Nintendo Switch] Star Renegades [NSZ][RUS/Multi6]

Developer Statement on Broken Switch Version
I found this on their Steam page:
I understand your frustration and believe me, nobody is more disappointed with this than we are. I'll post here what I posted on our Discord:
"I sincerely apologise for the state of the game on Switch as it is currently. We are doing everything we can to fix the issues and get a patch out as quickly as possible. I don't want to make excuses but we are a small team and for the Switch port we used external partners to both port and QA the game. Clearly, it was not enough and we should've done more QA on our own as well. Nobody is more disappointed with the Switch performance than ourselves. No crashes were reported, either by our QA partners nor by Nintendo who had also tested and certified the game for release. Again, it's not an excuse but we all had expected it to be a smooth release and so this has caught us off guard. However, this is now our top priority in terms of dev resources.
Somebody mentioned the Switch port of The Witcher 3. I'll start off by saying that, although I am proud of our team and studio... we are not CD Projekt Red. Oh how I'd love to have their budget and manpower, but alas, we are not them. Even so, while their port was a technical miracle, it was not a perfect port of the PC version. I believe the release version was 540p in handheld mode and would also dip below 30fps at times.
We will be addressing the crashes first and the framerate dips second. The big problem with SR on Switch is that we've got tons of handdrawn sprites for each unit... some of them up to 500 frames of animation. When we've got 9-12 units on screen at once, it's a lot of memory taken up by these images. In comparison, a fighting game like Street Fighter 3 has around 700-1200 frames of animation per character but they only display 2 on screen at once. There are some options we are exploring right now for a "quick fix" so that we can just resolve the crashes and frame drops fast as possible and submit a patch to Nintendo for certification but they will probably result in some loss of fidelity. However, long term, we are committed towards further improvements to the Switch (like TW3 did post Switch release) version
One thing I also want to make clear, v1.1 will likely be released on Steam this coming week. This does not mean we are not prioritizing the Switch fixes... there are different people working on different releases. The entire team isn't made of devs so we can't all work on the Switch fixes anyway... all we can do is help them with bug reports and testing and hope they can do their best!"
In addition, just because a game is turn-based, sprite-based, or pixel art has no bearing on how a game should perform. If you want to make the comparison with Hades, then we should examine it truthfully.
Yes, Supergiant has done a great job with their switch port of Hades but Hades uses a purely 2D isometric engine that has likely gone through it's 4th iteration (Bastion, Transistor, Pyre, and now Hades). They've had almost a decade to improve and perfect the same engine they've used for all 4 games and ported all of them (except Pyre) to Switch. Each game only has a single "hero" unit on screen at once and the enemies all have a single or limited number of attacks to display, so the memory requirements for their sprites are pretty minimal.
Star Renegades uses a true 3D engine to render our artstyle. You can tell it's true 3D because of the camera movement in combat. We also use dynamic lighting, dynamic shadows, and post-processing to add depth to our 2D sprites, something that Hades does not. Our backgrounds are also truly dynamic (just look at the moving train scene that goes from a cave to the outside world in the tutorial) with tons of details, art assets, and views that stretch into the horizon. And as I mentioned above, every unit has hundreds of frames of animation to display. Some games choose to use icons to display states but every single on of our characters have different animations for being Idle, Defending, Queuing an attack, Hit Backwards, Hit Downwards, Exhausted, Recovered, and Death. Saying we just have "8 sprites to display" like they were Octopath characters who have maybe 6 frames each max is disingenuous at best.
As I said above, Switch is our number one priority right now and we're doing everything we can to resolve the issues. First, we have to fix the issues and make sure it's stable. This isn't a 1 hour, single line of code kind of change. The Switch has considerably less memory than a gaming PC or the Xbox One, however, we have some more ideas to try and get it to be more stable and performant. It will take some time but we're working around the clock to get it done.
Once it's done, then we have to submit to Nintendo and wait. It typically takes 10 business days for a patch to pass certification... which is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ eternity but that's just how these consoles work. There's nothing we can do as we're not a huge AAA company that can bend them to our will... we can just ask politely and hope that they'll help us out and certify it a little quicker.