Its inclusion in a strategy game is more impressive than those fights themselves but they work and I enjoyed them when I got the hang of them. There is enough precision to keep you going, there's enough weapon variety to take on different types of enemies and they vary the ship layouts enough so it isn't too formulaic. Looking at the FPS (first person shooter) parts, I would use the word enough. You have to rebuild their upgrades but its not like starting from square one. When your character dies, you get to keep their junk and you're presented with a new one. Plotting your character's course does get more difficult as the game goes on but you're playing the game for some kind of challenge and you cannot outright fail the game. They also manage to inject some humour into it, the game is very tongue-in-cheek and it keeps the gameplay from getting stale. That you can get what you need in certain missions without icing all the aliens on the ship which was a nice change of pace.
Instead of walking around and bumping into an overpowered screw, you can carefully navigate your way around the ship and buy a layout that reveals where they are. While it may feel a little intrusive for true strategy gamers, I found their suggestions to be helpful. I like how the game is pretty careful to direct you to what you need and when its time to turn tail and run as opposed to trying to shoot it out. The strategy elements of Void aren't too demanding so they can be picked up pretty quickly.
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Thankfully with how self aware the game is, they know how to poke fun at that so you can avoid being annoyed by it. Its a serviceable mechanic meant to get you from A to B.
You get to make choices but they have no affect on the story. It isn't always easy, most of these ruined vessels have guests aboard who won't take kindly to your planned raid. Most decisions come from which ships to raid and what you build with that junk. You are a convict picked at random that's rehydrated from a potato chip bag and you are tasked with collecting junk to build various parts so you can escape the Nebula. So there you go, despite a few technical issues, some unique to this game and others that are basically Switch Report staples at this point, you can still go in knowing you’re going to have a fun time with a game that really is a great fit for handheld gaming.Does every game have to be plot heavy? I don't think so but its got to have other standout elements. With a beautiful art style, tremendous humour (and great voice work to boot), and a fun loot-upgrade-repeat mechanic surging through its core, it’d be a shame to not recommend it. Void Bastards remains a slept-on gem, that, despite Game Pass, seemed to vanish as quickly as it came. It maybe sounds worse than it is, because what you’re left with here is a solid if not spectacular port of a game that people seemed to talk about for five minutes and then forget. I’d say it happens at least twice per mission, maybe more the longer you are looting a ship of its sandwiches, parts, and fuel. It’s like the game is catching up, though it never got behind in the first place. There is a seemingly random frame-skip issue, though, that will almost push you along suddenly. It’s not a smooth 60fps, but it’s acceptable. I’m growing to accept this kind of trade-off the longer the Switch gets great games to it, but Void Bastards also has a peculiar frame-rate issue. Ultimately this isn’t a huge issue, when playing the shooter-sections, which is the bulk of the action, it’s visually the same game, albeit a lower quality overall image.
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You can, thankfully, adjust the borders to suit your needs, but regardless of this, blown up on a TV screen the text is tiny and even people in my household with 20/20 vision struggle to read the font chosen for Void Bastards’ text. Put simply, the whites that surround the comic book that is the game draw the eye away from already small text. The combination of a lower overall resolution and that gorgeous visual flair actually works against Void Bastards. First up, the age old problem of tiny text rears its head here. Some you’d expect, and others that are surprising. Making the jump to Nintendo Switch has brought with it a few problems, however. A sublime comic-book aesthetic that cleverly doesn’t over-complicate the action with aiming down sights, or complex mechanics when actually running and gunning, it was an absolute gem when it hit Microsoft’s terrific Game Pass service back in 2019. I’ve often wondered if games that come to Xbox One’s Game Pass service get slept on unfairly, and Blue Manchu’s rogue-like first-person shooter definitely fits this mould.
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The PS4 edition is also being released at the same time as the Switch edition.
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Void Bastards was simultaneously released on Xbox One and PC on and scored 8.5/10 on Xbox One. Switch Re:port covers the Nintendo Switch version of a game.
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