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Welcome to a future ruled by corporations and dodgy contractual obligations! Each ship has a distinct design, some unique rooms, and higher chance of specific crafting material. You’re initially told to scavenge several items to repair a component of the ARK, after which you get a short cutscene and are given yet another component hunt - repeat until you finish the run. The writing, item descriptions, enemy design, and animated comic book style cutscenes are always entertaining, but that’s where the narrative begins and ends.
#REVIEW VOID BASTARDS FULL#
(petty criminals are apparently deconstructed into powder for long-term storage in the future!), instructed by an obnoxious and very British AI to recover components to fix your “ARK” ship, to escape a deadly nebula, full of decrepit ships, space stations, and foul-mouthed, cockney space-pirates. In Void Bastards, you play as a rehydrated C.L.I.E.N.T. The end result is mechanically satisfying, even if their choice of environments is ultimately self-limiting and repetition creeps in before the end-game. This is yet another game from a team of former developers that is similar in design to The Flame in the Flood and City of Brass, which ditches the narrative for complex, roguelike gameplay. 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.After a dozen hours spent playing Void Bastards, and a bit of research into the developers Blue Manchu, I’m starting to think former Irrational Games staff simply wanted to make survival-focussed roguelikes, rather than the linear and narrative-heavy System Shock and Bioshock games. 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.
#REVIEW VOID BASTARDS PC#
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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