Ooh, we love a bit of turn-based strategy here in Nintendo Life Towers - well, this writer with his ageing reflexes does, in any case. It's a genre not exactly heavily served on the Nintendo Switch, albeit Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle does an excellent job. There are Indie efforts on the horizon for the eShop, however, and now we can add ACORN Tactics to that list.
It's developed by TACS Games, which has a bit of experience on Nintendo hardware with past games including Octocopter: Super Sub Squid Escape. It sees mechs go to battle with alien blobs over a 25 level campaign, seemingly also offering some nice customisation and depth.
Check out the trailer below.
There's no firm release date yet but we'll keep an eye out for details. Has this one caught your attention?
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Erm Lego rip off characters much?
Not sure that this one interests me. But I'm always open to giving things a go so I'll keep an eye out regardless.
"ACORN is for Alien Counter Offensive Response Network, by the way"
Well of course it does. This doesn't look very good at all.
how about kingdom rush or iron marines on the switch?
Looks like a generic mobile game.
Well, I think it looks excellent. But then I would expect me to say that because I made it.
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Btw, there was a Cigarette (the Smoking guy) from the trailer.
You know, Cigarette is considered as an Inappropriate content for young audiences.
A lot of Old Cartoons even Classic Disney cartoons showed smoking characters, but now all smoking activities was banned, not allowed to be aired on TV for young audiences.
I can't get past the cheap flat/cutout-looking explosions.
The blob noises are pretty weak haha
it looks decent but, judging strictly from the trailer, the music and character variety needs some more work/polish
hope it does well tho, this is a genre that needs more games on nintendo platforms. FE is the only srpg franchise nintendo supports now, and very few other major studios they work with make these types of games, atlus had a few good ones but thats about it really.
The music is also similar to Mario rabbids
Why it has to be acorns to defend the world? Why Chief Wu wears a doctors mask? Why the explosions sound so darn cheap? Why the humans let acorns drive tanks? BUT Why Acorns not peanuts? Why !?!?!
Sorry, lost my mind for few secs after watching a bad trailer.
Eeeeenteresting. I'm always up for some turn-based tactics, really hoping the Switch version of Tiny Metal makes it out later this month as the website suggests.
Where's WarGroove?
@Anti-Matter i beleive the internet doesn't count. I still see smoking cartoon characters every now and then. Hell, Disney has a new internet short with Pete pretty much having a cigar in his mouth all the time.
Maybe?
With Tiny Metal and Wargroove on the horizon, maybe not.
Who cares what it looks like? If it is a good turn-based tactics game - it does already appear to have a decent sense of style and identity - it will be fun to play. Too many people worry about the appearance of the game over the content. The dev has made several other entertaining games like Factotum (on the Wii U) so I expect this one will be similarly well-executed and quirky.
Looks like my cup of tea - my only real concern is apparent lack of different enemies and units.
Shame we don't have Miiverse any more for that guy to comment on how good the water looks.
Banjo Kazooie style music, nice. Game doesn't look bad.
30th November.
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