Ikki Unite Review (Nintendo Switch OLED)

For this Ikki Unite Review, It’s the autumn harvest, a time to rejoice in the fruits of labor, but a swarm of locusts ravages the land! The village is in trouble, and yet the collectors still demand taxes… So let’s start a rebellion get our rice back, and protect our village! This time we aren’t alone! It’s time to “Ikki Unite” with up to 16 people!

Ikki Unite Review Pros:

• Pixel art graphics.
• 556MB Download size.
• Own in-game achievements.
• Graphics – resolution, v-sync, and fullscreen.
• The game manual acts as a tutorial.
• Action survival gameplay.
• 16 characters to choose from each with unique weapons, skills, and play style (offense/exploration/enhancement/recovery).
• Multiplayer – create a room, join a room, and quick match.
• Full solo play support.
• Time limit and the only way to extend time is to kill bosses.
• Minimap with arrows towards the next boss.
• Damage numbers show on the screen.
• Plays like Vampire Saviours.
• All attacks and abilities auto-fire when ready.
• Hot zones are big chests that once touched trigger an area full of enemies, you have to stay in the circle and defeat them for big rewards, leaving the circle ends it immediately.
• Collect food for health and timed buffs.
• Multiplayer supports up to 16 players!
• Earn EXP and level up to pick one of three random rewards.
• End of a run breakdown showing time played, score, kill count, and highest level reached.
• Emotes are in the game and are text-based.
• Collect materials to power up your sub-weapon so you can use it.
• You can see any teammate’s health bars.
• Enemies drop coins and you find the shopkeeper to buy one of three random items.
• Different shop types dictate the sort of items they have like health-related, Weapons, etc.
• In multiplayer every starts in a different part of the map.
• Very difficult game.
• Every run randomizes everything including the map.
• You can revive fallen teammates.
• Waves of enemies happen a lot and you get a countdown until their arrival and a time bar for when they are ending.
• A Hermit is a character that once found will give you an optional bonus objective for unique rare rewards.
• Simple controls.
• As you play a character you can choose what item you inherit and start with in future runs.
• Very addictive.
• A lot going on all the time.
• You can show your ping.
• Streaming options – set your Live streaming name, display your name and streaming name, and display other players’ names with both names shown.
• It gets proper mental with all the abilities going off, enemies projectiles, and boss fights.
• So much replay value.
• Awesome Chiptune music and sound effects.
• In game cutscenes.
• Recruit other Ai characters to play alongside.
• In six glee player you can pause the game.

Ikki Unite Review Cons:

• Cannot remap the controls.
• The manual is not that great.
• There is so much they don’t explain.
• Takes a little while to get used to the flow of the game.
• Very difficult.
• No online leaderboards.
• The music isn’t great and it is very repetitive.
• You cannot pause the game even in a single-player!
• The menus are clunky.

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Ikki Unite:

Official website.

Developer: Sunsoft

Publisher: Sunsoft

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Nintendo