Ylands Nintendo Switch Edition Review (Nintendo Switch OLED)

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Ylands Nintendo Switch Edition Review, Adventure awaits you and your friends in the world of Ylands! Gather resources, craft tools, construct anything and everything, and explore the lands! Build a ship and set sail, encountering mythical animals, a wide variety of sea life, enemies of all kinds, and much more!

Ylands Nintendo Switch Edition Review Pros:

  • Decent graphics.
  • 3.6GB download size.
  • Own in-game achievements.
  • Adventure gameplay.
  • Tutorial pop-ups as you play.
  • First and third-person views.
  • Controller settings – Invert axis and sensitivity slider, and Aim assist.
  • Can import saved data from the demo.
  • In-game cutscenes.
  • A full 3D game world with 360-degree camera control.
  • Has a lot of Easter eggs and nods to films and other games.
  • You can tame creatures, and then pet them and change their name, and even ride them.
  • Text pop-ups detailing the materials and items you are currently hovering over.
  • Handy loot one or loot all button commands.
  • You have your own pirate ship and can control your speed by lowering and raising your sales.
  • Play how you want.
  • Puzzle elements throughout.
  • C.A.G handbook houses all your recipes, quests, etc.
  • Beautiful looking locations.
  • Impressive physics engine.
  • The offline mode is a first for the series and makes sense for the Nintendo Switch.
  • Sticks and stones mechanic whereby you collect resources and materials to craft items, tools, and weapons.
  • As you progress you improve your crafting rarity.
  • Tech tree entries allow you to unlock ships and technology and add-ons for the ships.
  • Complete diary quests to get rewards from chests.
  • It all feels familiar and fun.

Ylands Nintendo Switch Edition Review Cons:

  • You don’t get told about the import demo option in the menu.
  • It cannot remap controls.
  • Performance hitches happen a lot and at times the game can freeze for a few seconds.
  • The menus are not as clean and easy to read as you would like.
  • When playing the text can be unaligned with the screen meaning words amd letters get cut off.
  • Loading times are not great.

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Ylands Nintendo Switch Edition:

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Developer: Bohemia Incubator

Publisher: Bohemia Interactive

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  • 8/10
    Graphics - 8/10
  • 6/10
    Sound - 6/10
  • 7/10
    Accessibility - 7/10
  • 8/10
    Length - 8/10
  • 8/10
    Fun Factor - 8/10
7.4/10

Jim Smale

Gaming since the Atari 2600, I enjoy the weirdness in games counting Densha De Go and RC De Go as my favourite titles of all time. I prefer gaming of old where buying games from a shop was a thing, Being social in person was a thing. Join me as I attempt to adapt to this new digital age!