Retro Goal Review (Nintendo Switch OLED)

For this Retro Goal Review, we get to play it our way. From the Hollywood pass to the hospital ball, an absolute screamer, or a simple tap-in, We ponder questions such as will your game day skills match our managerial know-how? Are we a great man manager or will we lose the dressing room? And most importantly will that new striker you’ve just signed be able to perform on a cold, wet, night in Stoke?

Retro Goal Review Pros:

• Detailed pixel art graphics.
• 71MB download size.
• Own in-game achievements.
• Football gameplay.
• Full touchscreen support for all the menus and playing the game.
• Controller/Joycon support.
• Four difficulties – Easy, normal, hard, and extreme.
• Five save slots.
• Choose which side of the screen you want to be on every game.
• Optional and repayable tutorial.
• Turbo mode – 1 to 5 stars.
• Camera settings – far, near and dynamic.
• Scanlines can be turned on and off.
• Weather types – on/off.
• You run and play a football club. You can choose to work your way up from the bottom or pick your team.
• Full team management from buying and selling players, hiring and firing coaches, formations, and tactics.
• Players earn exp and level up to earn coins and improve their ratings.
• Overall team rating.
• Coins are used to upgrade team facilities, and stadiums and buy players/coaches, etc.
• The game plays out where you can only do limited actions like move up and down, shoot/volley/header.
• It’s not an arcade or Fifa-style gameplay setup.
• Constant replays of plays and goals.
• Fast forward/rewind and skip replays.
• A huge referee avatar pops up when issuing cards, free kicks, penalties, etc.
• The game flow is you take over the game at key points and the rest is simmed.
• Uses the same controls and gameplay flow as Retro Bowl if you have played that.
• Shots can have a guide arrow come up to help with aiming/power etc.
• A lot of fun.
• A refreshing take on the sport.
• Highly addictive.
• Your club/team has a morale rating for the players and conditions for how well you are doing.
• Achievements pop up as you earn them.
• A little flag will show above a player’s head if they are offside.
• At the end of a game, you can choose who to praise or scold which affects bonuses and rewards.
• Newspaper reports will show off accomplishments.
• You can have teams approach you about sales and loan players.
• Optional radar at the top to show player locations.
• Tackling is automatic for the most part, you just line the player up but you can press for a hard tackle.
• The controls are surprisingly tight and precise.
• All upgrades to facilities take time to build and are measured in games.
• Full stats and breakdowns of players, the team, and other teams.
• Player info can tell you about them, their star rating, and then stats on performance and their overall fitness.
• Set up to do a half or full season.
• Set your favorite team.
• Has multiple leagues in all European and world countries.

Retro Goal Review Cons:

• Takes a while to get used to the controls regardless of the touchscreen or controller.
• Not real names but the team names are very close.
• Your teammates get in the way a fair bit, especially in the box.
• When your opponent is playing you just get a text pop-up saying what’s going on.
• The changing of your lineup is confusing as it doesn’t give feedback on the dynamics of the team or even if the player actually plays in that position.
• No way to rewatch previous games.
• Can’t upload or share replays.
• No goal celebration variety or control.
• Full or half-season is the only game mode, doesn’t have tournaments or one-off matches.
• No online play.
• Doesn’t have world teams just domestic.
• Cannot create your own team and kit colors.

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Retro Goal:

Official website.

Developer: New Star Games

Publisher: New Star Games

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