Review: Invasion of Alien X – Earth in Crisis (Nintendo Switch)

Aliens are on a terrifying Earth Invasion Tour! Your mission: Fire artillery and protect the base from the enemy flagship…Repel the invaders. Deploy weapons batteries delivered by drones wisely, and you can win.

Pros:

• 696mb download size.
• English/Japanese language option.
• Voxel graphics.
• Shooter gameplay.
• Game-defend your base from an alien attack, take out the boss to win.
• Reinforcements-shoot incoming helicopters to spawn in turrets to help defend.
• Vortex bomb-charges up as you play and does an area of effect explosion.
• Zoom in/out camera.
• Icons to show boss and helicopters appearing.
• End of level breakdown and overall rank.
• Cheerful soundtrack.
• Tight controls.
• Good time waster.
• A level lasts around five minutes.
• Four planets-vegetables, mohawk, zombie, and fish.
• Tutorial on how to play pop up.
• Increasing difficulty.
• New enemies arrive as you play.
• Plays out in an area a setting and you can pan left and right.
• Looks and plays like a light gun game, you just see the crosshair.
• Fun.

Cons:

• No touchscreen.
• The tutorial is just a pop-up.
• Constant difficulty spikes.
• No leaderboards.
• Vortex takes ages to charge and is so rare and not that powerful.
• Zooming in and out doesn’t feel smooth.
• Gets repetitive.
• Only one control layout.
• The level end does not have a play next level option.
• Little reason to come back.