Green Hell Review (Nintendo Switch)

You are left alone in the jungle without any food or equipment, trying to survive and find your way out. Clinging to life, the player is set on a journey of durability as the effects of solitude wear heavy not only on the body but also the mind. How long can you survive against the dangers of the unknown.

Pros:

• Decent graphics.
• 2.2gb Download size.
• Four save slots.
• Game settings-subtitles, crosshair, and hints.
• Invert axis and sensitivity sliders.
• Toggle settings for crouch, run, and watch.
• 3 modes-Story, survival, and challenges.
• Four difficulties- a walk in the park, welcome to the jungle, King of the jungle, and Green hell.
• Custom difficulty options-combat difficulty, nutrients depletion, permadeath, sanity, tiredness, health loss. Hazard options-tribes, predators, arachnids, leeches, snakes and piranhas, and stingrays.
• Tourist mode-no predators or depletion and is for doing exploration and the story.
• Challenges-seven set challenges to complete.
• All difficulties, tourists, and custom options are available for both story and survival modes.
• Survival Rpg gameplay.
• Tutorial opening. (can be skipped)
• Rolling stats.
• The crafting is more in-depth with more layers to basic crafting.
• Glorious locations to explore.
• Play how you want.
• Notes give stories and background knowledge. You can read it as is or click it for a text box.
• Radio to talk to other people, you unlock and use multiple choice interactions and commands.
• Fully voiced characters.
• Day/night cycle and weather effects.
• Radial dial for quick select.
• Bag-you see your actual bag and can move items around it to make more space.
• Watch-shows all your vitals like health/stamina/food etc. Click it to change to time and to a compass.
• Crafting can be done anywhere and is a case of grabbing and placing items onto a crating spot.
• Inspection-you can select four parts of your body and move that part around to look for injuries but also treat the injury.
• Notebook-fills in with key facts and recipes as you find them. Shows missions and quests.
• Sanity-actions will increase and decrease your sanity which if too high will cause hallucinations.
• Learn the ways of natural remedies.
• Materials-a lot more in-depth than other games. Hacking a tree will get a bit of wood but then hit that wood to make large sticks then hit again to make small sticks, it’s like that with a lot of materials you gather.
• Atmospheric.
• Has a horror/physiological horror feel to it.
• Very ambitious.
• Deep versatile cooking methods.

Cons:

• Long loading times.
• Small text.
• No touchscreen.
• Overcomplicated or needlessly drawn-out recipes.
• You have to be pixel perfect for interacting with objects.
• Menus can be a pain to navigate.
• The slowdown in places.
• Handheld looks a bit smudgy in places.
• A lot to take in.
• Controls take some getting used to.
• Pop in and pop up happens a fair bit.