Tag: switch
Bomb Chicken (Switch): COMPLETED!
I was never not going to buy a game called Bomb Chicken. Especially when I saw it in action. You’re a chicken, and you lay bombs. You can kick them when you’ve laid them, but other than that and moving left and right, you’ve no other moves or abilities. Using this somewhat limited array of skills, you have to navigate platforms, kill baddies, hit switches and generally avoid touching anything. Having no jump button is the main enemy you have …
Pokémon Quest (Switch): COMPLETED!
Aha! Take that Nintendo! I completed your IAP’d up game without paying a single penny! Although I should temper that with two things: 1) I never saw the need to pay any money, and 2) where do you even pay money anyway? It was, however, a bit of a grind for the last two worlds due to me not having any decent psychic or electric pokémon. I think I probably spent around two-thirds of the entire time I played just trying …
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, …