Tag: switch
Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 (Switch): COMPLETED!
And yet another Lego game beaten. This one was pretty good fun, focussing mainly on Spider-Man, Thor, Captain America, Doctor Strange, Guardians of the Galaxy and a lot of less well known heroes (and foes). The plot is stupid and has Kang taking various different Marvel locations, universes and time zones and creating Chronopolis by smashing them all together. What that means is there’s a lot of variety in the levels, with some really geeky references to the comics. Other …
The Count Lucanor (Switch): COMPLETED!
One stealth section too many – ah ha ha! Two stealth sections too many – ah ha ha! etc.
OPUS: The Day We Found Earth (Switch): COMPLETED!
This is a game with a nice little story wrapped up with a “find the right dot in a load of dots” mechanic. You’re a robot, and your creator has tasked you with finding Earth, which involves a lot of looking at the galaxy through a telescope and zooming in on specific star systems. To find these systems you’re sometimes given coordinates, or a direction to look in, or a particular region of space. Later on, the location descriptions become …
Scribblenauts Showdown (Switch): COMPLETED!
I’d heard that this was a party game based diversion from the main Scribblenauts series, so wasn’t going to get it. But it was £10 and I thought, how bad can it be? Luckily, not as bad as I was expecting. The party game mode is the main purpose it exists (and is actually pretty good, considering), but there’s also a “Sandbox” mode which is a simplistic approximation of the previous Scribblenauts games. A number of levels with ten tasks …
Metropolis: Lux Obscura (Switch): COMPLETED!
It’s the age old story: Man released from prison, man tries to find the reason he was framed, man gets caught up with the mafia, man visits strippers, man fights everyone and everything via the medium of a Match 3 puzzle game. We’ve seen it so many times before. And that’s exactly what this is. There’s a branching story, with four endings (three of which I’ve seen so far), a lot of violence and somewhat graphic sex. Also, swearing. So …
West of Loathing (Switch): COMPLETED!
A black and white stick-man role playing game set in a warped version of the Wild West where demon cows attack and there’s goblins, skeletons and necromancy and folks make their fortune mining meat? I mean, it’s a cliche setup for a game already. How could it possibly stand above the hordes of other similar titles? I jest of course because my god is this one strange, silly game. What with quests where you must find a bowtie, or round …
Fairune Blast (Switch): COMPLETED!
Well this was a bit different. As a reward for completing the three other Fairune games in the collection, this little shoot em up is unlocked. Taking its cue from the bosses at the end of the first two games, this is a full-on Pop’n TwinBee style vertical shooter, featuring enemies from the main series in formations, and miniature versions of the bosses as, er, bosses. It’s fun, but very short and easy. I mean, sure, it is only a …
Fairune Origin (Switch): COMPLETED!
I’m guessing here, but I think Fairune Origin is the original idea for a game that eventually became Fairune. It’s a very short, similar game with just 12 screens and a few puzzles which are vaguely recognisable as those in the “proper” Fairune. Your girl is taller and thinner, the baddies don’t seem to require you to level up to beat them, and it’s all over pretty quickly. It definitely feels like a working prototype, and, I suppose, if you …
Fairune 2 (Switch): COMPLETED!
Perhaps the easiest way of describing Fairune 2 is “Fairune only more”. More enemies, more puzzles, more areas, bigger maps, more items, more on-screen, more lore, more everything. It’s a lot longer too, as it took me six and a half hours to complete – compare that to two and a half for the first game. That all said, it’s pretty much the same idea. Bump into enemies to kill them, find items to open up areas of the map, …
Fairune (Switch): COMPLETED!
A few years ago, I picked this up cheaply on the 3DS and quite enjoyed it. This week, Fairune Collection, which included Fairune, it’s sequel, and two other Fairune related games, came out on the Switch. Since I’d passed up on Fairune 2 elsewhere (mainly through Too Many Games) I jumped at the chance. And decided to played the first game again. It looks a little silly on the Switch screen, with a huge amount of the area showing the …
Fire Emblem Warriors (Switch)
It’s widely known (he says, as a nobody on the internet) that I’m a massive fan of Hyrule Warriors. Not really the musou genre generally – just Hyrule Warriors. Such a big fan of it that I’ve put over 300 hours into the game across the four copies that I own. I thought the draw was mainly the characters from the Zelda series, but here’s Fire Emblem Warriors proving that to be nonsense. On the face of it, Fire Emblem …
Rogue Aces (Switch): COMPLETED!
Well, the “Frontline Campaign” completed, at least. I’m not sure the other modes are completable? Anyway, I completed it. And good grief was it hard. It plays out as a grid of islands, each one like a miniature normal mode, only there are a fixed number of targets to take out. Once you’ve done that, you move onto taking over another island, heading from the bottom left of the map to the top right. As you do so, the enemy …