A Switch in Time (General Switch Chat II)

What a catastrophe.

I can't believe that a publisher is trying to pass this off as a twenty quid retail game in 2017. This has got much, much less going for it than the last Monster Jam game I played, which was on the Nintendo 64. There's only three types of gameplay mode, and they're all resolutely single player only (a one player racing game...fuck me). Firstly, there's a really shoddy interpretation of Monster Truck arena racing, where the races literally last less time than the loading screens do. You can complete all of these with the top ranks in roughly five minutes. Secondly, there's a Freestyle mode, where you scoot about a really barren arena trying to do tricks off of big ramps. The game doesn't explain how you do tricks though, so all you're doing it trying to stay airbourne for as long as you can. Dogshite. Thirdly is the real 'meat' of the game - the Hill Climb, which is what Trials HD might be if it were made on the cheap for the SEGA Saturn in 1995. All you do here is accelerate forward and occasionally angle your Monster Truck for a very imprecise landing. The Survival mode is cheap as fuck, the time attack can be completed by just holding R2 and the Stunt mode can actually be beaten with a score of 0 points. There's no sense of ironic fun to be had with this either; it's all so poorly executed, and nothing sticks out as being even half-decent. Visually it's boring, but the entire soundtrack takes the piss - three songs that all sound like the shitey nu metal stuff that WWE used back in 2003. Honestly, I had to stick it on mute.

There's only two redeeming qualities. Firstly, I managed to trade it in for a profit (to the same shop I bought it from a fortnight ago, oddly), and it's really, really easy to Platinum; no joke, I played it for half an hour and noticed that I had been awarded 64% of the trophies. I got them all in under two hours. Otherwise, I'll be unfortunate to play another game worse than this in 2017. 2/10.