We all know the Switch isn’t exactly a powerhouse of a console the charm of the device comes from the convenience of taking some of your most beloved games on the go.
For the rest of the article, I want to talk about the Switch version and how it effectively showed me what it would be like to suffer from glaucoma. Yum!Īgain, I’m just going through this quickly because it was covered in the review of the original release. Alongside the management of ammo, movement and health, you’ll also be able to utilise a series of perks specific to certain mutants like a charged shot that disables robots or the ability refill of an individual health bar by chowing down on an organic corpse. It’s how I imagine Rambo felt taking out all those poor soldiers who were just doing their jobs. Stealth allows you to isolate stray targets and take them out before the battle, giving you a feeling of prevailing over the odds by outsmarting the enemy. There’s a degree of freedom offered to players as they make their way through the various locations, choosing whether or not to avoid enemies or challenge them head on.
Where MYZ really excels is the implementation of exploration within a turn-based combat system. Resident writer Sam Spiller did the original review for it, so check that out if you want his take on it. The story is compelling enough if you’re okay with really tired post-apocalyptic cliche’s but I’m not really going to go too much into that aspect of Mutant Year Zero. You play as the titular mutants who are sent to find Hammon, the only man who can keep your settlement which is known as The Ark, running. The world has been ravaged by some kind of plague, killing off nearly everyone and leaving small pockets of survivors scattered far and wide, each trying their best to make it through the day.
Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden, was released in December of last year and looked at taking the table-top strategy/roleplaying game of the same name and bringing it to a screen near you. Turned out that was probably the best way to go into reviewing Mutant Year Zero on the Switch, because the port doesn’t have much else going for it. I saw it as a learning opportunity to maybe find some sort of appreciation for a genre I’d long since written off. In a strange turn of events I was tasked with reviewing Mutant Year Zero’s long-awaited Switch release and I’ll admit that I was hesitant going into it, but I also wanted to give it a fair shot. How anyone has the patience for 80 hours of that is well beyond me ( Editor’s note: Shut up Brad). So I skipped every XCOM game, never got into Advance Wars and don’t even get me started on Fire Emblem. I want to say that it’s because I find the gameplay to be slow and boring and the whole “percentage to hit” thing furiously frustrating, but in reality it’s probably just because I’m not incredibly intelligent. I’ve never been one for turn-based strategy, no matter how often everyone sings the genre’s praises.
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