It's definitely not the kind of game where you can do other things in the background. Sh*t can go sideways really quickly in this game, so it always keeps you on edge. The game felt intense for nearly the whole campaign. They're nearly impossible to kill & they destroy you. The enemies are fun & well designed (EXCEPT the pirates. I can't even count the number of times a Jive called me a "Buttface". Weapons are fun & creative (which is pretty rare for a lot of FPS games nowadays)! - The (British) humour is cute & enjoyable. Decent gunplay - Weapons feel good: They pack a nice punch. PROS - Amazing comic book art style! (This is mainly what drew me in). If you are interested in buying the game, at least do your wallet a favour and get it on sale because it's a borderline ripoff. It's RIDICULOUSLY expensive for such a repetitive & short game (~$40 CAD for about 10 hours)! I didn't even unlock all the items, but I have zero urge to go back & get everything because you don't get anything for it as far as I'm aware. This review is based on a retail copy of the game provided by the publisher.70% Nintendo SwitchOVERALL IMPRESSION: The game is decent (not great, but pretty good), but it's definitely NOT worth full price. It’s also one of those games where you actually have to think about your plan of attack in salvaging the ships: Is it better to pick up those batteries from this ship or maybe the ship with a bunch of fuel tanks will make traveling easier? At the end of the day, as long as you’re pleasing that HR bot, your prisoner may earn freedom one of these days. It’s a game where you can easily spend half an hour to eight hours and feel accomplished either by picking up a few food items or completing that fancy new shotgun. In all, Void Bastards is a good roguelike FPS game. You can’t just jump to any ship at your whim to collect that AA battery for the laser cannon, you will need to collect food and fuel tanks from a bunch of ships before you can do that. From makeshift grenades to staple shotguns, obtaining the items needed to build these will need some strategic thinking on your end. The ships contain scraps and parts to salvage, and these ultimately are the items that will help you build your arsenal against enemies. Each ship has some travel requirements, and those come in the form of food and fuel tanks. The strategy component of Void Bastards comes from the different ships your prisoners will be scavenging. Your prisoner, however, may have such great aim that sniping headshots are so much easier. In Void Bastards, your prisoner may inherit an incessant cough from smoking so much, so trying to be a sneaky kitty to collect those fuel cans may not be a winning strategy. The uniqueness comes in the form of genetic traits, and as we all know about genes, some are awesome (hello piercing blue eyes) and some are shitty (boo diabeetus). Also, did I mention exploding ectoplasm? With many things to potentially kill you, you should fret not, because if the prisoner you’re controlling dies (and death is inevitable, even the game tells you), another prisoner will come out of hibernation to continue the tedious task your predecessor was given.Īs with any other roguelike game, each prisoner is unique in some sort of way to give you that feeling of novelty after each untimely death. Not only that, the ships contain so much oxygen for you to breathe, so if that runs out, well buddy, you’re dead. You see, the prisoners have to ransack these out-of-commission spaceships and navigate the dangers within them.Īutomatic gun turrets waiting for any movement to gnarly space pirates who are also ransacking the ships are just some of the dangers waiting for you in Void Bastards. While the tasks are mundane and boring, achieving the tasks are a different story. You are the prisoners controlling one at a time while completing tasks for the HR bot like collecting a line printer or something else menial like that. In Void Bastards, the pivotal character isn’t the one you control, but rather this eccentric human resources robot that has control over a bunch of prisoners to do its bidding.
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