Review: Vertical Drop Heroes HD (Nintendo Switch)
Vertical Drop Heroes is a procedural platformer RPG hybrid with roguelike elements, where your hero adventures through randomly generated stages. Armed with a variety of skills and traits, you must use your cunning and reflexes to survive the dangers of each stage.
Pros:
- Chunky cartoon graphics.
- 189MB Download size.
- Splitscreen support.
- Auto attack on/off.
- Slight tutorial.
- Roguelike gameplay.
- You make your way down a randomized vertical level.
- Coins- Collect in the game and drop from enemies, Use them to buy unlocks and teleports. You keep coins upon death.
- Hub- Here you can upgrade health bars, Increase weapon strength, Teleport shortcut, Learn about your abilities.
- Every life you get to pick from 3 randomized characters or pay with coins for a re-roll. Each character has unique abilities and stats.
- Save and exit option.
- Keys- Found in the level and used to free random heroes who help you, Or you can skip the final fight and pay 5 keys.
- Gems- Give EXP and coins.
- Earn EXP and level up to get HP refill.
- Addictive.
- Tons of replayability.
- Boss fights at the end of every level.
- Unlock new weapons and get bonus loot by doing optional side missions within the game, Example could be find dogs or flowers and return them.
- Abilities- Limited uses but can be restocked. Adds abilities like arrows, Daggers, High jump, Spawn clones etc.
- Instant loading times.
- Warp in levels that send you back to the start of the level.
- Simple yet effective gameplay.
Cons:
- No touchscreen support.
- Some small text.
- RNG dependant.
