The Wii U eShop has the tendency to throw up some surprising and clever games, and Swap Fire aimed to deliver just this in 2016. Primarily a local multiplayer game - though you can play it solo - its hook is that when you shoot an opponent you swap places with them, setting up the potential for some chaotic and entertaining scenarios.
For those interested in taking the plunge it's 30% off at present in North America, and will be discounted until 14th February. The developers have even produced cute themed gift cards.
Some copies are also being given away on Twitter, though note it's currently only out in North America:
Beyond that an EU release is in the works, in addition to a version 1.1 update. After our review in which we awarded it 6/10 there was a little communication with the devs on the criticisms and concerns we'd shared. To the developer's credit, it's some of these areas that are being targeted for improvement - the fix list includes the following:
- Easier staged access to Exhibition Mode
- Audio cues in multiplayer to compliment opening animations
- More precise dual analogue controls
- Several bug fixes
We'll keep you posted once an estimated release date for the update and European version are confirmed.
Have you tried Swap Fire on the Wii U, or are you tempted to try it at a discount?
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Not awkward, or weird, but "awkweird". Still, I seem to recall something Zelda oriented like this in the past, or maybe I'm just thinking of the NL game character Valentine's joke dating profiles. Also, an interesting way to generate talk/pr for a game, & they also are devs willing to update their title, to fix perceived flaws. Very good for them. Edit: It is nice for love-bird gamers, that might like this game.
I've never heard of this game but I'm going to try for a free copy and give it to a friend. No one ever comes to my house so getting a multiplayer game for myself is a little pointless.
Never heard of this one. Gonna check out some footage and if it looks good, I may just have to bite.
Got to play this a few times. A good bit more fun than I'd expected, but it wasn't playing in the best environment, and it felt like the Wii U itself was also a limiting factor somewhat. Control is kinda bad (on some third-party dual analog controllers, at least), but understandable due to the lack of gyro on the hardware. Thankfully, the lack of precision wasn't too off-putting (this sure wasn't Quake or even Splatoon). Getting points by swapping players into certain areas, or killing them with risky jump-into-the-abyss-then-swap moves was interesting. S(w)occer got surprisingly intense, what with the swapping around really screwing up everyone's control of the ball. I'm curious as to whether the gameplay could hold up on the Switch, if it had online play and gyro control (or at least good-enough side-Joycon for local).
I didn't even know it released already. I'll check it out later then.
@Jumpman Oh my goodness! Thank you so much! I am really excited to play this!
@Jumpman I spent several hours playing this with friends yesterday and it is absolutely brilliant. There are glitches, cringey voice acting, and the controls definitely could use some fine-tuning, but the core ideas are as brilliant as Splatoon, IMO. With some polish and online capability, a sequel could honestly be the next Rocket League, IMO.
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