![]() The second is where the fun really lurks, though: you control the game by using the Vita's triggers to shunt you back and forth across a series of lanes, avoiding obstacles and collecting power-ups.Īs concepts go, it's a sly expansion of Switch, the studio's endless runner for smartphones, and the main difference is that your journey's been carved into bite-sized missions as you hop from one planet to the next. It's full of playful little semi-familiar quirks, the first of which being that there's no accelerator - you just travel faster and faster the longer you blast along the track, sliding over boosts, without hitting anything. Created by a team that includes veterans from Psygnosis/Sony Studio Liverpool, this is a slight game but a very thoughtful one: a racer that's concerned with positioning as much as it's fixated with sheer speed. It's charming, yet Switch Galaxy has a lot more going for it than mere charm. Once you reach the far side of the galaxy you unlock the ability to jump back across the map and revisit old races. I now know more about Setovia than I know about Saturn. ![]() Each planet you buzz past comes with a handful of details, too: click on Setovia and you'll learn the name of its capital city, the number of satellites it has and the length of its yearly cycle. So it is with Switch Galaxy, which spins a whole science-fiction yarn about an element called Tantalum that in the future can only be collected at high speeds, just so you feel like you have the proper emotional context for doing the sort of thing you almost always do in this sort of game - pelt along a deep space highway dead fast as you blast from one planet to the next. They'd provide a little more narrative than you realistically needed from a 10p lunchbreak treat. Instead, it's all down to the fact that Space Raiders, for some strange reason, used to come with bits of expanded-universe gibber-gabber on the back of packet. ![]() Whatever: Switch Galaxy has a lot in common with Space Raiders, and not because Atomicom's futuristic racer has anything to do with pickled onion. Or perhaps that should be a specific brand of corn- and wheat-based snacks. ![]() Switch Galaxy belongs to a very small subset of video games: games that might remind you of a specific brand of crisps. ![]()
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