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If you’re a fan of the series who’s open to something a little different (for the series, not games in general), or if you’re just curious, I think it’s worth the look.Manticore: Galaxy on Fire (Switch) – image for this review provided by Deep Silver, Fishlabs, and Koch Media. I’d probably enjoy myself even more if the game wasn’t just a gauntlet of meaningless combat scenarios (many of which are a variation on protecting a specific point) - but I’ve been enjoying it nonetheless. I do miss the sense of exploration found in other Galaxy on Fire games (hey, it may not have been much but it was still there), but its absence hasn’t prevented me from enjoying myself.
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Simple though it may be I actually really like this control scheme as it lets me focus all of my energy on moving and aiming.
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Shooting happens automatically when you’re within range and have your reticule pointed at the proper spot. The left half controls your ship’s movement, and the right is used to speed up/slow down/roll to either side. Instead of trying to multitask tons of different space-dogfighting related actions using a touch screen – which amounts to basically two “buttons” you can use at any given time, unless you hold your phone super-awkwardly – here you mostly just use two halves of the screen. I’ll admit that the streamlined combat controls are pretty neat, though. It feels kind of… I think “sterile” is probably the best I can come up with right now. Then your ship warps in, you do whatever it is you need to do – protect a thing by shooting the hostile things, usually – and you warp back out. Instead, you just go to the galaxy map and pick a mission. It was often void of activity, but there’s still something to be said for sitting back and relaxing while your ship autopilots its way to your destination over the course of several jumps and a few minutes. One of the things I always like in spacefaring games is being able to freely – or at least somewhat freely – trundle around the galaxy at my own pace.
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sole) focus on shooting, it does bum me out that there’s not more galaxy to explore. While I do appreciate the visuals and did just make a case for the new (i.e. Good enough that I’m really happy to see the inclusion of a camera mode that allows you to pause the action, reposition the camera, and take a screen shot.
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Creative license abound, of course, but it still looks darn good. The lighting and colors of the various locations are quite something, and many of the zones you’ll visit are filled with a surprising amount of objects to add a bit more visual interest and make space feel a little less empty. Being the most recent entry in the series and having been designed around modern mobile devices, Manticore is also incredibly good-looking.