Review: Velocity 2X (Nintendo Switch)

Pilot the Quarp Jet at full speed with the Boost feature; use a variety of weapons to defend yourself and master the teleporting technology to outsmart the enemy in this race-tuned space combat. Here is our Velocity 2X review:

Pros:

• Chunky neon graphics.
• 1.7GB Download size.
• Includes additional content- Critical urgency, Dual core, and daily sprint packs.
• Part shooter part platformer gameplay. The game splits up the shmup action and chucks in a fast-paced platformer action with a run and gun mentality whilst always fighting against the clock.
• Touchscreen support- You can use the touchscreen to teleport around the screen and use the menu.
• The music compliments the game in every way, hell I even bought the album off iTunes, Its that good!
• 50 story missions to play through and unlock. Unlocking the levels is easy, Mastering the levels is the hard part and the true challenge of the game.
• Can play it undocked with both Joycons detached.
• HD Rumble support.
• What’s this game like? Think Galaga on acid, Metroid on speed, space invaders after a major plastic surgery rework. The platformers sections are very akin to a 2D recreation of a loner dropping a shed load of horse tranquilizers and let loose in a laser quest!
• Get a rank on each level based on a series of sores, Each section making up a badge of honor. the sections are: Time took, Score, Crystals collected and survivors rescued. Getting top marks in all sections will create a badge with stripes, stars on top and a collection of crystals sticking out on either side. Looks a lot better than I am making it sound.
• The game starts off as a straight shooter, then when opening gates to open more levelness, You may need to enter a docking port and carry on on foot. The on-foot section is surprisingly quick and fun. Shoot crystals to collect them, slide under barriers, warp through walls and avoid gunfire….Awesome.
• The gameplay is fast by nature, Add in your desire to top leaderboards and finish levels quickly, The turbo button notches that fact up and then some.
• Full leaderboard support and can be filtered.
• Cutscenes are wonderful pieces of art with text. You can rewatch or read as it were, These cutscenes at any time from the extras menu.
• Extras menu is HUGE! You have a section for the bestiary so you can see who.what you have been fighting, the technology you have unlocked/encountered, catch up on story stuff, even still has the now trademark Futurlab calculator option.
• Options allow you to change between inverted controls, left-handed, auto skip cutscenes.
• The UI is completely reworked and looks so sci-fi it is crazy, Coming in from the right in an almost old school 360 blade systems kind of way. The menu is a slick easy to use, Any new additions or updates to any of the many options will have an exclamation point on it.
• Unlock new abilities as you go and this is more geared towards to the on foot sections as more complex levels come into play. things like throw a small teleport pod to get through small gaps, Get a rifle to destroy stronger enemies etc.
• The shmup sections are very much a love letter to past shoot em up titles, injecting speed and urgency is a winner with boss fights popping up in a variety of ways.
• It is a hard game later on but never unfair. If you fail a lot then it is you, Not the game.
• Secret parts to the levels with bonus pickups like codex pages or extra health.
• the main story will take a good few hours to finish first time around, Going for full completion will take weeks if not months!

Cons:

• Few issues with gates as they are based off a timer which is a bit confusing at first but you soon get used to it.
• No tate mode would have looked amazing!
• You don’t like shoot em up games.
• You hate games.
• Cannot rebind controls.
• some of the times are so far out of my reach I will never 100% all levels! That’s a personal gripe as I suck at these games.