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Last week it was a Mario Kart patch, this week it's a version update, with new content added to WayForward Technologies' Mighty Switch Force inching the 3DS eShop ever closer to iTunes territory. More »
The lively graphics, unique gameplay, and excellent soundtrack all mesh together superbly to create a bouncy and enthusiastic experience. Portal proved that a game doesn’t have to be really long to be enjoyable and Mighty Switch Force has kept my interest longer than many disc based games at this point. Don’t miss out on this fantastic eShop title if you have the chance.
If you have the speedrunning bug, be warned: Mighty Switch Force's taunting clockwork worlds are going to be a dangerous, and possibly fairly maddening, compulsion. Even if you don't, this is still clever, personable, and beautifully made.
I only hope that more developers working on 3DSWare are paying attention to WayForward's design efforts and taking notes; this kind of vintage game design is begging for more attention.
Mighty Switch Force is the best Mighty installment yet, even if it still feels like a tease. It's a game of cops and robbers, the sexy future edition, that blends light running-and-gunning with crazy platform manipulation. Once again, WayForward proves that it knows what its doing when it comes to downloadable titles on a Nintendo service. Other developers need to step up their game.
After Shantae: Risky's Revenge, Aliens Infestation and Mighty Flip Champs, this is another excellent game from WayForward. Packed with original ideas but there just aren't enough stages.
There’s plenty to love about Mighty Switch Force. The platforming is solid. The visuals are amazing and the soundtrack is going you’re going to want on your music device of choice.
WayForward's weirdos are at it again. These demented minds have already unleashed downloadable madness upon Nintendo fans thrice before with the adventures of a belly-dancing half-genie, a dimension-flipping wizard and a planet-smashing alien girl and DSi owners have loved every minute of each one...
As impressive as its first two previous Mighty releases are, WayForward has managed to kick things up a few notches with this third title. Not only is the switching mechanic extremely well implemented, but the visual and musical presentation the developer has moulded around it is equally amazing.
Oh man, WayForward always has amazing music in their original games. Mighty Switch Force is no different. This sample track is called Yummy...and it sure is!
- capture all five Hooligan Sisters and take them to the extraction robot Corporal Gendarmor
- earn a blue star for finishing levels under par time
- press the A button to make the main character's siren helmet light up
- this causes blocks to shift in and out of your playing field
- special blocks will cause you and your enemies to shoot out in specific directions
- puzzle-platformer
- play as Patricia Wagon, a cybernetic law enforcement officer
- Patricia has the job of recapturing escaped girls, which may be members of the Hooligan Sisters
- five girls scattered about each stage
- fnide these girls and then your mech to finish the level
- some levels are linear, while others are not
- actions such as the ability to jump, a blaster gun (which lets you shoot horizontally), and a special helmet that lets you use special blocks
- use the L button to switch special blocks from the background into foreground
- you can swap block positions in mid-air
- one potion of the game has you shooting enemies with your gun to line them up infront of blocks, and then switching block positions to push them forwards to crush them
- place yourself or enemies infront of cannon blocks and then switch positions to shoot yourself in the direction the block faces
- use these cannon blocks to guide explosive enemies to breakable walls
- playthroughs are timed
- possibility of an additional, unlockable mode
- action freezes completely while the blocks are shifting phases
- sprite artwork is layered
- Patricia screams out "Stop in the name of the law!" and also has death shrieks
