Switch Reviews

21Oct

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Call of Cthulhu Review – Intriguing To The End

Call of Cthulhu is a role-playing survival horror game developed by Cyanide and published by Focus Home Interactive. Call of Cthulhu is inspired by H. P. Lovecraft's short story "The Call of Cthulhu" and an adaptation of the 1981 role-playing game of the same title. The game was released on 30 October 2018 on PC, Xbox & PS4, and was recently released on the Nintendo Switch on the 8th October 2019. Call of Cthulhu had fairly good reviews when it was originally released in 2018, "8.6/10 from IGN", "59% from PC Gamer" & "67% from Metacritic", but even though I didn’t originally play the game and as a lover of horror/psychological thriller genre, I was very interested in seeing how it would fare on the Nintendo Switch. Gameplay The plot of Call of Cthulhu starts off in 1924, w...

Sniper Elite III Ultimate Edition Review – Hit Me With Your Best Shot

16Oct

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Sniper Elite III Ultimate Edition Review – Hit Me With Your Best Shot

Sniper Elite III Ultimate Edition initially released on multiple formats back in 2014. It was perhaps inevitable that a Switch port would one day arrive, but I'm pleased to say that this is a quality conversion, and brings across extra content and improvements which developers/publishers Rebellion Developments have introduced over the years since it first came out. Sniper Elite III Ultimate Edition is set in 1942 in Nazi-bothered North Africa, which makes for a refreshing change from the usual dingy grey bunkers on dingy grey streets which litter games set during World War 2. You play as Karl Fairburne, a gruff-voiced man with a rifle which enters the room 10 seconds before he does. Your goal is to track and take down the fictional General Franz Vahlen, who is doing naughty things with ...

Fight’N Rage Review – Button Bashin’ Face Smashin’

3Oct

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Fight’N Rage Review – Button Bashin’ Face Smashin’

When I was growing up, I was a huge fan of Beat 'em ups. I still am, there are just fewer outstanding ones coming out. Games like Final Fight, Streets of Rage, Altered Beast and ever Spiderman & Venom: Maximum Carnage got rented from the local video store week after week. So when I first discovered Fight'N Rage, I had to have it. Fight'N Rage is developed by only one man, Sebastian Garcia of Sebas Game Dev in Uruguay. Fight'N Rage dropped onto PC Via steam on September 19th, 2017 and I immediately picked it up. Two years later, almost to the day, It was released on the Nintendo eShop for the Nintendo Switch ported by Blitworks. Naturally, I had to have it again. I was thrilled when an opportunity to review Fight'N Rage on the Nintendo Switch came up. So without further delay, I need...

Untitled Goose Game Review – I’ve Been Goosed!

1Oct

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Untitled Goose Game Review – I’ve Been Goosed!

adveAs one of Yorkshire's foremost amateur geese enthusiasts, when I was offered the chance to review Untitled Goose Game, I considered it an excellent opportunity to educate bird-brained Thumb Culture readers about the majestic beauty of the family Anserinae. Upon accepting the honour, however, I was somewhat chagrined to discover that I had not been chosen to review the game due to my expert knowledge of geese, but rather because the particular goose-protagonist in question had a vindictive and irritating nature, and it was suggested that I had an unparalleled grasp of such personality traits. Whilst deeply upset at what I considered a somewhat spurious claim, in the end, I agreed to evaluate the game, all the same, so long as I could litter the review with atrocious puns [I don't...

Cyber Protocol Review – Hack my Switch up!

1Oct

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Cyber Protocol Review – Hack my Switch up!

I was sitting on my sofa in a mundane area of North England when I loaded up Cyber Protocol, a Cyberpunk infused arcade puzzler by RedDeerGames. The opening sets the scene, and the soundtrack transported me to a world influenced by classic cinema such as Blade Runner. I was a hacker, tasked with bringing G0X6 back to life by activating the protocol. I had no idea who G0X6 was and what the ‘protocol’ was but I was invested. Starting the campaign, I hoped to feel like Mr Robot’s Elliot Alderson, a cool but socially awkward vigilante taking down E Corp, however that fantasy was quickly squashed. I had been thrown out of the Matrix, and the promise of a neo-futuristic world dissipated into a muggy September evening in the North of England. My adventure as a hacker started and finished bef...

Super Mario Maker 2 Review – Go Ahead, Make My Game

30Sep

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Super Mario Maker 2 Review – Go Ahead, Make My Game

The original Super Mario Maker, which released on Wii U back in 2015, was a bolt from the blue, a rare example of Nintendo allowing their fan-base to tinker with the very building blocks of the Mushroom Kingdom to create their own Mario levels. It offered a robust toolset which allowed for players to experiment to their hearts' desires, and the Wii U's touch screen and stylus meant enjoyable levels could be created in a matter of minutes. Given the level of success, almost in spite of the underperforming console on which it appeared, a sequel was inevitable, and Super Mario Maker 2 was released in June 2019 to almost unanimous praise. Gameplay Most of the tools from the original title return here with a number of additions. As before, levels are constructed on a grid, and a wide varie...

The Sinking City Switch Review – Water Waste

18Sep

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The Sinking City Switch Review – Water Waste

The Sinking City was developed by Frogwares and was published by BigBen Interactive. It was released on PS4, Xbox One and PC on June 2019. This is a review of the Nintendo Switch port, which released on 12 September 2019. In The Sinking City, you play as Charles Reed, a private investigator who is drawn to the fictional town of Oakmont after being continually tormented by visions of slithering, supernatural horrors. Reed hopes to bring an end to his nightmares while also investigating a slew of disappearances, but shortly after disembarking Reed is drawn into investigating the grisly murder of a local aristocrat, and it soon becomes clear that Oakmont has a dark, mind-bending secret below its surface. The plot borrows heavily from HP Lovecraft’s works, with suspiciously ape-like humans...

Solo: Islands Of The Heart Switch Review – Pocket Counsellor

16Sep

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Solo: Islands Of The Heart Switch Review – Pocket Counsellor

Is your relationship failing? do you often want to know exactly how your partner is feeling but they never talk about it? playing Solo: Island Hearts sure opened up a new can of worms within gameplay for me! Involving both real puzzles to mess with your brain and real-life issues that may occur during relationships, asking at many times personal questions, was it worthy of me spending more than an hour? did it look like a cheap alternative to relationship counselling? enough with the questions, Coral - Although, I think the game has rubbed off on me with all the invading questions given. Solo: Islands of the heart is a quirky puzzle game brought to you by developers Team Gotham and published by Merge Games Gameplay Kicking off the game I noticed something I have never before seen i...

Creature in the Well Switch Review – Pinball Puzzle Perfection

11Sep

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Creature in the Well Switch Review – Pinball Puzzle Perfection

The year was 1901 and Julia Davis Chandler knew only two things, she liked peanut butter and she liked jam. At that moment genius struck and just like the Spice Girls, she decided that two must become one. That day the American youth were introduced to the Peanut Butter Jelly (Jam) sandwich, and this revolutionised snack time for years to come. Fast forward to 2019, and Flight School Studios have combined the dungeon crawler and pinball genre to create a truly fascinating game, which releases on Switch, Xbox One. and PC on September 6th 2019. Creature in the Well opens in the midst of a sandstorm. The protagonist, Bot-C, awakens and begins his journey towards a mountain town in the distance. This is where we are introduced to the antagonist, the Creature in the Well, who is a loomin...

Hotline Miami Collection Switch Review – Welcome to Miami

10Sep

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Hotline Miami Collection Switch Review – Welcome to Miami

Hotline Miami is a top-down shooter game developed by Dennaton Games & published by Devolver Digital. The game was originally released back in October 2012 on PC, but was released on August 19th on the Nintendo Switch as the Hotline Miami Collection, which includes the sequel Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number. The premise of Hotline Miami is set in 1989, where you take control of a hitman named “Jacket” where you walk about in his apartment, but receive an answerphone message every day offering “Jacket” to do various jobs, aka go out and kill lots of Russian Mafia. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number which originally came out in March 2015 takes place before and after the events of the former, and focuses on the backstory and aftermath of the hitman, “Jacket”. Both games contain extreme...