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:
Developer: New Star Games
Publisher: New Star Games
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