Tunic Nintendo Switch Review – Is It Worth It?
Hello everybody zian over here from Nintendo life and today we’re here to Share with you our review of tunic on The Nintendo switch now this review was Originally written by Lowell Bell for Nintendolife.com but was reworked into This video by me [Music] The opening moments of tunic fooled us Into thinking we were in for a Derivative zelda-like Adventure a small Fox-like character wearing a green tunic Reminiscent of a certain hero wakes up On a beach from an isometric camera Angle this fox eventually finds a sword And not long after a blue and red shield Surely it wouldn’t be long before we Discovered boomerangs and Bows to solve Puzzles with yet these item-based Puzzles never came to be instead tunic Cleaves its own identity with a handful Of brilliantly Unique Mechanics and with Combat pulled from that bottomless well Of design that Indie developers have yet To run dry the Dark Souls well you’ve Seen it before a stamina bar dictates How much you can block or Dodge attacks And when you die and you will die an Echo of your body can be recovered to Regain the gold you lost upon death Spending this gold with the proper Upgrade I item in hand increases attack Health points stamina and so on your Sword has a simple three hit combo but
The complexity of combat against enemies Comes from recognizing attack patterns Making use of the invincibility frames And Dodge rolls and parrying if you’re Brave throw in a handful of magic items And the combat never grows stale in this 15-hour adventure you will however spend The vast majority of your time in tunic Exploring beautifully detailed Environments to a soundtrack that won’t Be out of place on a Lo-Fi study Playlist from ancient forests to Underground sci-fi ziggurats there are a Lot of little secrets to uncover much of The time the isometric perspective hides Secrets and shortcuts beneath Bridges And behind stairs rewarding the Tenacious player that explores every Nook and Corner these zones never Require pushing blocks onto switches or Lowering and raising water levels to Advance but rather the game requires Detailed analysis of the in-game Instruction manual which is by far Tunic’s most unique feature scattered Throughout the world are lost pages of This manual some pages show simple Controls such as rolling blocking and The sort While others depict maps of Certain areas and elaborate on the story It’s here within these wonderfully drawn Pages that tunic hides hints and clues On how to advance throughout the world Only by examining these Pages can you
Learn where to go and what to do it’s an Ingenious idea made all the more Engaging and mysterious by tunics made Up language now it isn’t necessary to Learn or translate this language as Enough of it is already translated to Get an understanding of what’s going on And where to go yet it reinforces an Undercurrent of old school difficulty And discoverability that runs through The entire game about two-thirds of Tunic plays out exploring and learning From the manual to go ring this Bell and Then find that Medallion while fighting Through a cast of enemies getting Wrecked by a handful of bosses and Uncovering more secrets of the in-game Mechanics seriously we had no idea what Was going on with the ability card System for more than half the game and It took us an embarrassing amount of Time to learn how to Parry and we don’t Count this as a negative though on the Contrary we loved just how few hands the Game provided us to hold in the latter Third tunic flips expectations both Narratively and mechanically in a way That we won’t spoil here but it Reinvested Us in the game despite Believing we had reached the end it all Accumulates with a final boss fight Which somehow we refrain from snapping Our Pro Controller in half over with our Two dozen failed attempts but a host of
Accessibility options including a no Fail mode and reduce combat difficulty Are there for those that find the sudden Difficulty spikes of the Bosses 2 much Personally overcoming these challenges Left us satisfied but we have to admit Some bosses straight a little too much Into the realm of unfairness but how Does all of this run tunic after all was Developed for much more powerful Hardware with 4K output at 60fps now Unfortunately the switch Port comes with A few hiccups that make it more Difficult to recommend if you have Another way to play already namely the Lowered resolution muddies the vibrant World giving the whole experience a Fuzzy Sheen in a game clearly meant to Have defined edges and clear Vistas Handheld mode alleviates this somewhat And if you haven’t seen footage of the Game running on another platform and if 30fps doesn’t bother you these caveats Might not bother you either you will However notice when the game freezes for A second or two during the more hectic Boss fights this never happened to us Against regular enemies but it quite Often did with the final fights of each Zone this didn’t lead us to taking hits We otherwise wouldn’t have nor did it Interrupt progress in any way but it Annoyed us nonetheless hopefully a patch Or two can fix this
You’d be wrong to assume the cue to Fox-like protagonist and colorful World Implies tunic is a relaxing little Adventure for all ages it’s anything but Tunic requires a lot of intuitive Thinking and patience to navigate its Beautiful world with its brilliant In-game instruction manual coupled with An unforgiving combat system that Punishes impatience and rewards measured Study of opponents tunic is a game Designed for those versed in Old School Adventuring and experienced in difficult Sometimes frustrating Sword Play given All of this and it’s evident highly in Inspirations and even with some Unfortunate performance hitches and Obvious downgrades from the versions on Other platforms tunic feels right at Home on a Nintendo console and we Recommend it as a creative and concise Adventure that both draws and expands Upon some prestigious inspirations We here at Nintendo life give tunic on The Nintendo switch an 8 out of 10. now If you’d like to check out our full Written review you can find that along With more news and information on tunic Over at nintendolife.com be sure to let Us know in the comments down below if You’ve played this game already on other Platforms or have been hoping and Dreaming it would someday come to switch And of course if you enjoyed this video
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