Even when you don’t personal considered one of Nintendo’s new hybrid handheld/dwelling consoles, the Switch’s very existence has given just a few studios a stable excuse to return and revisit their earlier titles, sprucing them up for a re-release on the brand new platform. While not all of those trickle again to the PC (I’m you, Cave Story… longingly), generally we get the good thing about the extra improvement time.
The newest sport to bear a Switch-fueled spit n’ polish cycle is Mercenary Kings, the charming-but-flawed platform shooter from Tribute Games. Relaunching early subsequent month with a ‘Reloaded Edition’ subtitled, it’s getting a small growth’s price of additional content material; two new playable characters and a few surprisingly main quality-of-life enhancements, all free.
The thrust of the brand new model is your regular ‘NEW CHARACTERS, NEW GUNS, NEW LEVELS’ stuff, and I can’t fault that. The two new characters are an enthralling duo too – athletic girl Frigg jumps quicker than anybody else within the sport regardless of how heavy her loadout, whereas worryingly huggable-looking murderbot C-Zar has thrusters that lets him sluggish his fall. Not essentially the most thrilling of gimmicks, having 4 totally different character sprites in a Four-player sport helps considerably.
There’s additionally a bunch of recent weapons – what seems to be like ten weapons and ten melee weapons – which, attributable to their modular nature, means a slew of recent crafting elements to be mashed collectively into hideous frankenguns. Always good enjoyable. Grenades have additionally obtained an across-the-board buff, which is sweet as they had been a bit bit garbage earlier than. The new stage will allow you to stomp round in a kind of Steel Soldier mech-suits and precise revenge on the sport for making you grind them for components within the authentic launch. Speaking of grind, that appears to have been addressed as nicely.
What excites me essentially the most about this new model of the sport is, paradoxically sufficient, the extra mundane adjustments. More essential than any new characters or ranges, the Reloaded Edition will help you purchase crafting supplies with cash, relatively than having to grind missions in hopes of discovering the requisite loot drops – that alone is a game-changer. Better nonetheless, missions now inform you what rewards they’ll pay out prematurely, and your mini-map will show the places of all aims, which means not will you spend 80% of your time fully misplaced.
With these high quality of life enhancements, returning to Mercenary Kings seems like a relatively good time, and one nicely price bringing a good friend or two alongside for the journey on. The Reloaded Edition of the sport shall be rolling out on February sixth as a free patch for all.
