Need to take zero damage? That could make for some creative choices including speed, making yourself a bit smaller, bullet dodge. Hostage situation? You’ll want to consider either boosting their health, making your shots unable to harm them, or even both. This allows you to cater what you’re bringing to the party to what will maximize your chances of success. Missions and objectives will vary quite a bit and, to be clear, in many cases they may be mutually-exclusive and that’s fine… you can complete the objectives one by one if you’d like and there’s no bonus for knocking them out all at once (though that would be pretty badass). Once you have your load out ready you’ll then have the challenge of executing and many times this will require some thought, tactics, and even an ability to improvise if you want to save the day. While most are of the brutal “kill anything that moves” variety at the end of the day that isn’t to say you won’t need to approach them with a certain sense of flair and creativity sometimes to be successful. In some ways playing out more like a strategy or puzzle game at times JYDGE is all about being given very specific missions with varying objectives and then figuring out what skills and weapons in your arsenal will best help you complete them. Where Neon Chrome was a long-form roguelike shooter where you would try to make your way to see and overthrow the maniacal Overseer, using whatever skills and weaponry the game would throw at you, JYDGE works in pretty well the opposite direction. While, at a glance, it may feel like you’re seeing something very similar to last week’s Neon Chrome (and you’d be right, they share the same base engine and many assets) as a shooter aficionado I’m very happy to report that JYDGE has a style, and more importantly pace, all its own. The folks at 10 Tons have sprung yet another excellent twin-stick shooter on the Switch and you should be pumped folks. All in all a real indie gem that also plays fantastically on the Steam Deck.There’s a new sher-, I mean JYDGE, in town and the bad guys had better start making their funerary plans because he’s not too keen on redemption. On top of the great content, you get nice stylized visuals and a banging synthwave soundtrack. So if you are really stuck on an objective you always have several other options to advance. And no, you don’t need to accomplish all goals to “finish” the game. A lot of content for a low-priced game like this. There are also several endings you achieve and tons of unlocks and upgrades to collect. Upping the total available missions to 72 with 216 medals to get. So while the maps stay the same, enemy placements, collectables, hostages etc. Each mission comes in four difficulty settings with its own goals. The “rescue all hostages without getting seen” task however is better done by replaying the same mission with stealth, hacking and higher hostage health upgrades.īut wait, this isn’t all. So if one mission goal is “kill all enemies in 60 seconds” health upgrades, explosives and regenerating shields will come in handy. You don’t have to achieve all goals in one run. There are 18 missions in total that come with three objectives each. It combines fast-paced action with a clever planning phase and tactical gameplay. This is far more than another twitchy top-down shooter. But once I realized how cleverly designed the whole game is and how many weapons, upgrades and tools you constantly unlock I was hooked.

I have to admit that I was annoyed by replaying the missions over and over again to get more medals to unlock more levels at first.

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