With so much of the game taking place in heavily-wooded forests and other hostile enemy territories, it's not too much of a surprise that Mutant Year Zero might have had issues in being brought over to the Switch (and faced with such imposing technical limitations), given the amount of objects and detail that would need to have been rendered at once. The environments especially suffer from a severe lack of detail and muddiness, making it more of a challenge than it should be to explore and work your way around enemies. This comes across most blatantly through this version's low-resolution textures and blurriness, which can make playing the majority of Mutant Year Zero on Switch an exercise in frustration. " Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden is one of the more disappointing Switch releases that I have played recently, largely due to it being so severely hampered by the system's technical limitations." And alongside other titles like Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle and Into the Breach, strategy games in particular just lend themselves so well to being picked up and played in short spurts, making them some of my favorite games to play on the Switch. Much like its characters, Mutant Year Zero is an interesting hybrid concoction of genres, even with some brutal levels of difficulty in places.Įver since it was announced for the Switch earlier this year, I couldn't help but find myself excited at the prospects of taking this challenging strategy game with me to play while either commuting to work, or to spend some time exploring its charmingly weird world before bed. Combined with the game's bizarre premise and band of characters (which you gradually "mutate" to gain new abilities and strategies), Mutant Year Zero largely plays with XCOM-like strategy and tactics combined with stealth mechanics, as players can roam around the world to try and gain the upper hand on their enemies and find loot before battle. From what I played of the game previously on PC ( and from our original review), it's the type of sleeper hit that players shouldn't, well.sleep on.įor those unfamiliar with the original game, Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden is a turn-based strategy game based on the tabletop RPG Mutant, where players take on the role of a pair of Scavengers (the mutants Dux and Bormin) on a post-apocalyptic journey through the wastelands of the world in search of a scientist named Hammon. Maybe I'll pick it up again one day alongside a guide.As much as I've been looking forward to the big marquee releases that are coming to the Switch this year like Luigi's Mansion 3 and the upcoming Link's Awakening remake, one of the titles that I personally have been most looking forward to playing on Switch has been Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden. While the game has been out for some time on consoles and PC, Mutant Year Zero still might have flown relatively under the radar for a lot of players out there, and undeservedly so. I want a challenge but I don't want to feel like I'm smashing into a wall repeatedly with little to no forward progress and that's what I felt like was happening here. I know some people out love games to be super extremely difficult, but I find that a tiresome. I felt like the difficulty of the game continues to rise throughout and your characters do not feel like they keep up with that in a meaningful way. Gear upgrades were at least better than the skill trees which I found to be extra lacking. ![]() If not that, then I want more meaningful upgrades, but wow did I not feel like that was happening. Perhaps it's just my taste, but I wanted more gear or more opportunities to upgrade gear. The gameplay is challenging and aside from the satisfaction of figuring out how to clear a map successfully, it doesn't give you that positive reinforcement to continue to push forward in-game. I think in large part because it felt sort of empty and unrewarding. I don't have too many complaints about graphics, yea they're a bit muddy, but for me, this didn't contribute to my dissatisfaction with this game. I love xcom a lot and was hoping this would scratch that itch on the Switch. ![]() I enjoyed the world and setting quite a bit as well. I do love the cast of characters you get to play with.
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