Review: Crystal Crisis (Nintendo Switch)
An all-star cast of heroes has gathered to test their mettle in Crystal Crisis, a cute and chaotic new color-matching combat game! Crystal Crisis is presented like a one-on-one fighting game, but instead of kicking and punching, players attack by arranging colorful falling crystals and clearing them from the screen. It’s the ultimate puzzle battle throwdown!
Pros:
- Cartoon graphics.
- 1.8gb download size.
- Optional tutorial.
- Own achievements system.
- Match 3 battler gameplay.
- 20 characters to unlock including a few cameos.
- Has a real Super Puzzle Fighter vibe.
- Each character has a defensive and offensive special moves that you charge by clearing blocks. They have 3 bars that represent power.
- Pause menu gives details on each characters moves.
- Moves/actions: Rotate left/right, hard drop and split where you put a block on either side of the matrix.
- The goal is to match colors together and then blow them up with a spark block that matches the color.
- Chain attacks.
- Earn score.
- Story mode- plays out as matches with cutscenes and each match you generally get to pick which character to play as that’s on screen.
- Easy to learn and play.
- Multiple color layout for the Hud and blocks.
- 5 modes- Arcade, Story, Vs, Online and training.
- Online-Ranked, unranked, custom, Vs friends and leaderboards.
- Arcade-Standard, survival, in line, tag team, and memory.
- Vs-standard, in line, tag team, and memory.
- Music player.
- Gallery-concept and character art.
- 5 AI difficulties-Normal, advanced, expert, master and grandmaster.
- Game settings- rounds 1-5 and game speed 1-5.
- Can change grid perspective from angled to flat.
- English and Japanese voice work.
- So much fun to play.
- Endless replayability.
Cons:
- Long loading times between each match.
- No touchscreen.
- Can’t skip cutscenes.
- Lots of loading.
- No real warning of attacks.
