Do you wish you could play Bandai Namco's excellent Ace Combat series on your Switch? Well, we're not quite there yet, but Playism is bringing its flight-based action game Vertical Strike Endless Challenge to Nintendo Switch, so that will have to do for now.
As revealed in the latest issue of Japanese magazine Famitsu, Playism will be releasing the game this Summer on in Japan for ¥461. We can only assume that a Western release will follow shortly after.
Here are some more details about the game from Playism and a trailer above:
VSE puts you in the cockpit of a fighter plane with one of two missions; Anti-Air or Anti-Ship. The instructions are simple, equip your plane, take to the skies and shoot down the enemies.
With the endless arcade mode, you can easily pick up and enjoy the game right away, be it in 5 minutes or 5 hours.
For those who love the joys of flying, or simply the challenge of constant incoming waves, VSE can keep you entertained as you enjoy the freedom of the 360 flight in the sky (just don’t barrel roll too much, that’s my advice!)
With fully adjustable and detailed controls, your plane can handle the way you desire, helping you to take the challenge head-on.
But your controls aren’t the only thing that is going to be directing you through the skies; extensive artillery allows you to customize your plane and take on the challenges in the form that works best for you. With the variety of weapons, you can change your plane to specifically match your play style and strategize against the enemies in front of you.
Each weapon has its merits, and a detailed radar chart to give you a full understanding of its abilities and specs. Mix and match your weapon to dominate the sky!
Let us know if you're looking forward to playing this on your Switch with a comment below.
[source nintendoeverything.com]
Comments 16
It sounds pretty barebones.
@SmaggTheSmug a fair amount for the price, I reckon.
Might have been tempted but sky rogue is already scratching that itch
@nhSnork "Cheap" does not always mean "good value". If it's a bland, barebones game it's still money and (more importantly) time wasted. Especially with no refund system. Why waste time playing something cheap and bland when you can pay not much more for a better game, like Sky Rogue or Manticore? You're not getting your time back, even if you get a refund.
Wait, wasn't there an article about this on a different site I commented on? Digitally Downloaded I believe.
Still not "vertical". Try again, NLife !
2 planes, 2 mission types for 5 bucks. Sound like a good 'pick up 6 play' deal to me, I am even tempted to pick it up on STEAM just to see how perfectly they caught up the Ace Combat feel. It will at least be the first modern jet fighter arcade flight game on the System (unless something radically surprising pop up until then) and I do hope Project Aces and Bandai Namco are taking notes on the growing audience on Switch for these games.
Sky Rogue is good enough, I'm passing on this one.
@SmaggTheSmug I even tried Sky Rogue and found it barebones too - so this one would disappoint me even more! :/
I had high hopes in Sky Rogue but its relatively visual samyness each mission and instability through multiple crashes saw me wean off it rather fast.
This looks nice but looks rather light on content; was it originally a mobile game?
I only hope Project Aces is working on something Switch related alongside AC7.
Also were those canards necessary??
@Shiryu To me it sounds like something that 10 years ago would have been released as a freeware or a tech demo to include in your CV.
While I consider the indie boom a great thing for the industry, it made people eager to charge for the things that used to be free, no matter how undeveloped they are. While back then the original Cave Story was freeware. I played this version and I was happy to pay for the upgrade to Cave Story+, but come on, even asking $5 for what's essentially a demo sounds a bit much :/
Speaking of, where's Eternal Daughter DX or remake for the Switch? I'd buy that for a dollar (or 10)!
@SmaggTheSmug I really do genuinely liked how they managed to make that F22 move like the ones in Ace Combat. I'm ok with giving 5€ to these guys for what they are offering here, but I am sure most people will feel otherwise.
@SmaggTheSmug "good value" is judged on a personal basis; what the game generally has to do is live up to the advertised functionality in descriptions so that players can measure them up to the aforesaid personal good value in advance. If this game does everything it promises, then it gets the job done for the couple bucks it costs; but if one estimates that the offered content is too little to hook them and/or give them enough invested playtime to meet the money's subjective worth (depending on many general and situational factors, a couple bucks can be a significant spending for people, too), then they're clearly not in the market for this item - at least until it's updated and/or discounted. And that's about it.
Barrel rolling too much will prompt Star Wolf to say "What the heck?!" Followed by a swarm of cuccoos devouring your aircraft for angering the gods.
@nhSnork Well, I had a lot of fun-per-dollar from extremely cheap Tactical Mind. But that is a board game with a fair number of different boards. For $5 you can get stuff like VVVVVV or old classics like Dark Messiah of Might & Magic (I'm going off of Steam here). 2 planes and 2 game modes for that price? Thanks, but no. Those would have to be amazing and I'm fairly skeptical that they are.
In general "value" is not as subjective as it may seem. Predominately because of the other cost: time. It doesn't matter how much a game costs, what matters is how much quality time it's going to give you for that cost. And in case of Vertical Strike it looks like up to an hour or two for $5. I think paying $10-$15 for 8-10 hours other games in the genre would give you is just objectively better value. People are actually not that different from each other and we share a lot of our tastes (otherwise things like blockbuster hits and bombs wouldn't exist).
In the Digitally Downloaded article I brought up two board games in my comments (that both cost me about $5 amusingly): Catan: Dice Edition and Love Letter. Both are light on components and have easy to pick up rules, but the former is basically each player rolling dice on their own and writing the result on a piece of paper while the latter is a quick competitive card game with light social deduction themes, where all decisions matter. Needless to say one was definitely more worth of those $5, even if you are a huge fan of Catan. I left the Catan game at a board game cafe on a shelf after years of not opening the box (after a few initial plays) while Love Letter remains in my default set of games to travel with.
This looked quite boring from the trailer, however I am hoping it pans out as I love a good shooter like this.
It looks like a 3DS eshop title, but in HD.
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