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Black Future '88

Developer: SuperScarySnakes

Publisher: Gambitious

Adventure
Action
Multiplayer
Shooter
Roguelike
  • Price: $19.99
  • Release Date: Nov 21, 2019
  • Number of Players: 1 - 2
  • Last on Sale: Jan 29, 2024 [$1.99]
  • Lowest Historic Price: $1.99
  • ESRB Rating: T [Teen]
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Reviews:
  • Roguelike shooters have been a staple for me on the Switch, generally providing a great outlet for intense play for some period of time that will feel familiar to a degree but ever-changing. Typically these games tend to be top-down affairs but in the case of Black Future ‘88 you’ll be taking on a cyberpunk and pretty bleak world full of robots and inevitable death. There are undoubtedly elements that work very well here, the visual style and weapon variety are both exceptional, multiple base classes offer up pretty different feels to keep your runs fresh, and the fact that biologically you’re literally racing against the clock representing your demise will keep you moving. Where it falls down a bit is most often visual clarity. Between occasional elements moving in the foreground and just a lack of clarity in the action when a lot is going on at once it can be pretty easy to lose a truckload of health or even die without really knowing what the cause was. That’s not to say it isn’t hella fun,it just adds to a general frustration factor due to death often being quick and perhaps the reason behind it being a bit too ambiguous.


    Justin Nation, Score:
    Good [7.5]
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