Worse is the noticeable lag push the analogue stick and there’s an obvious pause between your input and character movement. To be fair, Kingdom Battle makes Splatoon look sombre, but the bleached palette and repetitive environments had us jonesing for a splash of colour.Ī choppy framerate and occasional hitches when opening doors or talking to NPCs don’t help. It looks and feels much older than its years, especially when compared to Switch’s premier XCOM-alike, Mario + Rabbids. Loading screens aren’t tortuous but from the look of this port, you’d expect them to be sprier. Wasteland 2 is built in Unity, an engine with a chequered history on Switch. It takes a while to parse the information, but it’s all there. A varied group skillset – from demolitions to dog whispering – is the key to success and tooltips on loading screens give plenty of hints to survive the dust bowl. Radioing HQ upon victory bestows points in three areas: ‘Attributes’ for character traits like Charisma or Luck, ‘Skills’ for areas of expertise, and ‘Perks’ which unlock bespoke buffs and benefits. Using cover or crouching increases your percentage chance of evading attacks and friendly fire must be factored into your strategy. The dials also function outside of combat with available skills highlighted in the presence of appropriate objects – a pickable lock, for example. Pulling ‘ZR’ brings up a radial menu of attack options and ‘ZL’ activates a similar menu of skills surgeons, for example, can suture wounds and revive downed teammates if they have the right gear.
All actions during fights – from basic movement to attacks and reloads – require Action Points (AP) to pull off, of which each character has a limited number per turn (a small amount can be carried over to the next). Encounters begin when enemies spot you and a grid materialises over the field. Outside of combat, you have direct control over party movement and cycle between members with ‘L’ and ‘R’. Wasteland 2 forces you to make choices which can affect the narrative considerably stealing from a weapons cache in an allied camp, for example, may have dire and lasting consequences, but there’s no ‘right’ choice and you’re encouraged to live with whatever happens rather than reload your last save (although that’s always an option). Along the way, you’ll pick up friends and enemies who shape the story.
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