He covers a wide range of topics but with a particular naked link focus on gaming and streaming. When he’s not reviewing the latest games, searching for hidden gems on Netflix, or writing hot takes on new gaming hardware, TV shows and movies, he can be found attending music festivals and getting far too emotionally invested in his favorite football team. Now, stick with me, I know that sounds silly because that’s just normal soccer, but Rematch takes plenty of aspects from the popular online car-based sports game. The arena is entirely enclosed, so you can bounce the ball off just about every surface, and while you can’t sprint up vertical walls à la Rocket League, you can perform acrobatic actions that put a circus performer to shame. By that point, developer Uvula will have already worked its magic on you.
Simply put, the more you move in open sand, the more likely it is you’ll attract a sandworm. Once the bar turns red, it means your luck has run out and you need to sprint away to higher ground or risk losing everything you’ve worked so hard for. Short distances start to feel large, and I felt genuine pangs of fear as I tiptoed between the stone monuments that broke up this seemingly endless world. The simplest way to describe Rematch is that it’s Rocket League but with regular people instead of zippy RC cars. But Rematch takes it further, adding an increased skill element, and thrives thanks to that same fast-paced energy that propelled Rocket League into the stratosphere.
Across a handful of discrete “open zones,” Obsidian weaves a compact critical path between a wealth of fascinating sidequests that, while ostensibly optional, feel like the substance of the game. That effectively gives you three weapons to swap between, even if they’re all coming out of the same barrel. It’s useful and satisfying for the most part, although I did find Kay would occasionally pump some stylish, slow-motion blaster rounds directly into the cover in front of her rather than the target I had selected.
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There’s always the challenge of knowing when to detonate them to take out the most enemies, but that’s the same thing we’ve been doing for decades, so while it’s effective, it doesn’t make Outlaws’ combat stand out. Furry friend Nix is vital to Outlaws’ stealth mechanics, as he’s basically a space cat drone who functions like a Watch Dogs phone. The game cites influences front and center complete with a bibliography in the first few pages.
It’s a fun feeling to tell the players you’ve spent a few points on something wicked, then watch them sweat for a few moments before you reveal what it is. The skill ceiling in Rematch seems almost limitless, and I just know that pro-level players are going to put together some incredible Messi-like passages of play, making the rest of us look like Ali Dia (kudos to you, if you got that reference). But rather than this high level of mechanical complexity being off-putting, it’s a huge part of the reason I desperately want to play more.
It’s not clear if player numbers will ever be revealed but we expect Fortnite to prove very popular on Nintendo’s new format. Although this spin-off from the Harvest Moon/Story Of Seasons franchise was out for the Switch 2’s launch it also released the same day on Switch 1 and PC. We haven’t played it, but we’ve never been impressed with the series and its attempts to mix farming with dungeon crawling – so both aspects are usually very shallow and repetitive. Maybe Guardians Of Azuma is different though, as it has four reviews on Metacritic, adding up to a score of 80. One of the best games ever made gets a mild remastering for the Switch 2, which ups the resolution and raises the frame rate to 60fps.
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Teen is different, and coming to terms with that is part of the tale. But even then, it’s a T-shaped piece of a much larger puzzle. There’s something weird going on in town, and the game isn’t afraid to step outside of Teen’s perspective to explore that.
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The frame rate is uneven and while this isn’t a straight action game there’s a constant sense that it’s only barely managing to work on the Switch 2. The occasionally blurry visuals are also less impressive than other launch ports and while some of that may be fixed with a patch, it’s clear this is a fairly compromised port. Switch 2 still seems the least appropriate console for a fighting game, given the Joy-Cons have no D-pad and we don’t think there’s a fighting stick for it yet, but beyond that this really has no drawbacks. There’s the question of whether Capcom will give it exactly the same support as the other version but it’s already got the current DLC available for it, so hopefully that means they’re not just going to abandon it after launch. Their reviews help gamers understand a game’s good and bad points.
Each class also gets a thematic ability that costs three points to use. My favorite use of Hope points is the tag team attack where once per session a player gets to describe how they and another player do a big, flashy combo and both roll attack and damage to put the hurt on a brutal bad guy. Daggerheart, from Darrington Press with the support of Critical Role, is now in the hands of role playing fans around the world.
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The biggest issue, is the fact that Sega isn’t offering any sort of upgrade path for Switch 1 owners, meaning you’ve no choice but to pay full price for the Switch 2 version. Since it’s also available on PlayStation 4, this isn’t quite the miracle port it first seems but it’s still hugely impressive. To a casual observer it looks almost identical to the PlayStation 5 version and while careful comparison shows it has less effects and the resolution is clearly being upscaled, the important thing is that multiplayer matches are all 60fps. The main advantage of the Switch 2 version, if you casually ignore anyone who has played on a PC this century, is mouse controls.
