
Should you spend literally all your weapon parts on the close-quarters effectiveness of Bormin's scattergun, or are you better served improving the ranged potency of Dux's crossbow? You can only afford one right now and, since there's no capacity for grinding, it may be some time before you can afford the other. The limited number of weapons and sheer expense of upgrades means you're forced to make tough choices. But Dux and Bormin, the two starting playable stalkers, are different they're mutated animals, a duck and a boar, respectively.Īt first glance, there's a lot you can do to customize each stalker and gear them up to specialize in certain fields, letting you mix and match your active squad based on the task at hand.

Everyone, even those safe in the Ark, has been touched by mutation. Stalkers are sent from the Ark, one of the few remaining hubs of human civilization, into the Zone to scavenge for scrap and fend off the bandits, ghouls, feral dogs and worse that now occupy the ruined towns and suburbs. Combats are very similar and predictable (100% hit rate, hidden characters waiting to pick off each monster with its known HP) once you get the hang of it offers quite limited challenge even on higher difficulties.Road to Eden depicts a post-apocalyptic Scandinavia where resources are scarce and knowledge of what the world used to be is even harder to come by. Characters are alright and quite funny with good dialogue. Don’t buy this, and don’t accept companies blatantly not giving a f*** about their customers :-( Graphics and customer experience aside, from the 3h gameplay I managed to put in (awaiting the 1-day patch), the game is quite linear, and it nowhere near feels like it has any exploration. Neither Nintendo nor Funcom has accepted refunds. The price was high (SEK 449, or EUR 45) and I really feel robbed of the money. The worst is that I bought the game from the Nintendo eStore based on screenshots that later were found out to be from the PC game, looking much crisper. The 1-day “graphics fix” patch didn’t do anything for hand-held (and frankly I’m not sure if it did in docked either).

It is VERY blurry, it stutters badly, it is slow. Game is totally unplayable in hand-held mode (also look 20 year old in docked), the port has to be one of the worst ever made and totally Game is totally unplayable in hand-held mode (also look 20 year old in docked), the port has to be one of the worst ever made and totally ruins the game-and the franchise for us that looked forward to playing it on Switch.
