cities skylines switch review nintendolife

The hybrid shoot em up that blended platforming side scroller into the core levels was an essential on Sony’s now discontinued handheld and I was interested to see how it held up today. Originally released on PS4 and PS Vita before seeing ports to PC and Xbox One platforms and scored 8/10įuturlab’s Velocity Ultra was a great game on the Vita but the initial reveal of Velocity 2X had me pretty hyped for it. I hope this improves like the Xbox One version did post launch because given the control options and portable nature, this has the potential to be the best version of the game. I’ve had a ton of fun playing Cities on a portable for nearly 15 hours but this is not worth buying in its current state unless you can stomach the visual and performance issues. The one nice addition is HD Rumble reminding you of a good location to build something as a hint. While it slows down here and there almost all the time, zooming and panning in a crowded city brings this to a crawl. It does look very good in some situations but these are few and far in between. Visually, things look bad when you zoom in and while the game itself doesn’t really suffer from this, it can get ugly.

Games like this would benefit considerably from offering a touch option for various things like camera control and even precision selection. You can use three fingers to pan but I feel like that’s a bug more than a feature given how badly it works. I’m super disappointed that there’s almost no touch screen functionality. There are 3 problems with the Switch port in its current state. After Dark and Snowfall are in the Switch port from the get go. That has carried over to the Switch version but the overall experience is not ideal.Ĭities on Switch is called Cities: Skylines Nintendo Switch Edition and it has the base game with 2 DLC packs included. Tantalus did a great job of adapting the complex control scheme of Colossal Order’s Cities to a controller on Xbox and then PS4. The iPad is the best platform for these kinds of games so I was pretty excited to check the Xbox One port out. Originally released on PC platforms ( 9/10) before seeing ports to Xbox One ( 8/10) and then PS4Ĭities: Skylines is a game I never thought would see a release on any non PC platform outside of maybe iPad. I say supposed to be because release schedules and embargoes make the schedule go a bit haywire.

If you’re new to the Re:Port Review, I look at the Switch ports of older games, how games use Switch specific hardware, and just Switch games in general in a feature that is supposed to be weekly. I’ve also been playing the superb Velocity 2X from Curve Digital and Futurlab that hit the Switch recently and Subaracity which is a very relaxing match 3 like game. The last Nintendo Direct had one of the best simulation games this generation get shadow dropped for the Switch in the form of Cities: Skylines.

Cities skylines switch review nintendolife