Of course, after grinding away a lot of these problems I mention are alleviated but it’s whether you have the patience to get that far. If playing the missions was fun I might see the appeal, but, I was honestly just bored playing this game and didn’t look forward to picking it up. Take Off is a game that doesn’t respect the player’s time at all. But my interest in this was pretty quickly diminished when I learned you need to gain more in-game currency to even send planes out in the first place. This seemed like an interesting management style game. Here you send planes to various world destinations and can opt to take off and land the plane manually or just skip that step. The game teaches you the main mechanics but I still struggled with the controlsĪt level ten you unlock a new mode where you run your own airline. The game also features a free fly mode where you can take any of your purchased planes and just fly about at your leisure. You can also upgrade your planes and buy new skins but of course, doing this requires more money which I was often very short of. Since this is not present in the console port your only option is to grind away at the same tedious missions until you gain enough money to afford a new plane. If you played this game on mobile the game would likely encourage you to spend in-app purchases to unlock another plane quicker. This here feels where the mobile to console transition was not addressed. Often the missions you unlock require you to purchase a plane you can’t afford, making unlocking the missions in the first place pointless. As you level up you unlock more missions. When you complete a mission you get either a bronze, silver or gold rating plus some money, experience and another in-game currency. The game does throw a few curve balls now and then, like having part of the plane not working and you coping with the restricted controls. Take off, fly through checkpoints and then land at a designated spot. Most of these follow a pretty familiar pattern. If you look to your left you’ll see Big Ben, I think Missionsįrom the tutorial you jump into a variety of missions. But despite a good addition I found playing this game quite uncomfortable. You can even use a hybrid of analogue and touch if you fancy. I guess if I was to give some praise the game does make use of touch controls in handheld mode. I followed the steps, yet often made a mistake and the plane crashed leading to another tedious restart of the entire mission. Landing, in particular, was difficult as I could rarely get down. I rarely felt I had full control of the plane, with the controls often feeling fiddly. However, I found that a lot of this I had to just figure out for myself through frustrating trial and error. You’re taught how to take off, move the wings about and of course land. From there you jump into a plane for a tutorial to get to grips with the flight controls, these are presented via text boxes and showing a screen of the controls which I didn’t find very helpful. You start the game by creating your pilot card which features a profile picture, your name and airport company. Grandad is ready to retire and he’s handing the keys to his airport over to you. To be fair this game does not feature microtransactions or in-app purchases but that’s not the only issue here. But then you play games like Take Off and I think I’m probably just better off sticking to consoles and PC still. Last year in fact I even thought to myself that maybe I should give the mobile platform another try. And I for one am grateful to have experienced some of those. Of course, buried in this sea of disappointment are some glowing games which have seen new life when ported over to Switch. I don’t like microtransactions or in-app purchases and often they have very little respect for a player’s time. To this day I have avoided the mobile platform since game design over there is just not my thing. Take Off -The Flight Simulator is another Nintendo Switch release that wings its way over from the mobile platform. Review code provided with many thanks to astragon Mobile To Console System: Nintendo Switch (Also on Steam (Windows) and iOS & Android)
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