Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighbour-Ville complete Edition

Alright, declaration time. I have not played Plants vs. Zombies ever on mobile or any of its third-person spin-offs.

Plants vs. Zombies came out at that unusual time when mobile games were kind of showing assurance- authorized as it was by games such as Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja, and Doodle; but just as rapidly destroyed by over-saturation of microtransaction field not-games such as Candy Crush, Clash of Clans, and the millions of others that would chase.

As much as I constantly assumed mobile could be a great avenue for gaming, the well was systematically poisoned, and when Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare was unconfined in 2014, the whole Plants vs. Zombies series meant so less to me that it went by entirely unnoticed.

However, now in 2021, it is my work to observe games, and even though I overlooked it in 2019; here we are with Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighbor-Ville on the Nintendo Switch.

I want to preface everything I’m about to confess about Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville by stating upfront that I do think it is fairly, a most excellent game.

It’s a pretty artistic little Hero-shooter that presents a fair amount of diversity for the attack, defense, or support-based play. It functions pretty solid on the Nintendo Switch, and though the 720p resolution in handheld is less than faultless when docked at 900p, the game is somewhat more satisfactory.

Furthermore, it controls well and adds numerous accommodations for working around the fussy nature of the Joy-Cons—particularly Roll and YAW choices for motion aiming.

That being said, maybe I’m not the goal demographic for this game—being old and jaded as I am—because I sincerely couldn’t get into it. I was right away annoyed when the game booted up and threw me into some horrible hub world, which I know is trying to be artistic and fanciful, but everything seemed a jumbled mess.

Everything had sassy names and nothing was indicated correctly, so searching how to get into a multiplayer match took a bit of trial and error.

Furthermore, when I did ultimately find what seemed to be the simply hub for engaging in online multiplayer, it didn’t appear like there was any way to decide different game modes—only being able to access “Turf Takedown,” or whatever modes the game felt suitable at that time.

Again, maybe this is the game’s exclusive personality, but it just felt strange to me that I couldn’t decide on a simple death match.

Even though, even when I did get into a game; although it ran extremely smoothly, it appeared to be a bit of a ghost town 90 % of the time.

Only a handful of times did I ever get into matches that were completely populated with other human players; and the game doesn’t notify you that you’re playing a game that is poised mostly of AI bots, only until you check the player list will you observe this very actual fact.

And perhaps I just don’t fully understand the appeal of these “hero-shooters,” the kids appear to love so much. I never actually got into Team Fortress 2, and to this day I still haven’t played Overwatch. I’m a simple person, who likes clear-cut shooters.

While I understand the intricacy that having numerous unique characters—each with diverse roles and skills—adds to a game; at no point did I ever feel like I was making the best decisions—constantly getting killed by the superhero zombie that appears WAY overpowered to me.

I don’t consider I’ll go back to Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville any time soon. I can confess it is a delightful game, with a fun visual, artistic, and authentically solid gameplay; but I just don’t feel the Switch is the correct place to play it—and judging by most of the games I got into, it seems the wide-ranging populous agrees.

It’s a game I’d advise to Switch owners who haven’t played it, but this may be one of the games that is better on other consoles.