Dusk and ye shall receive.
Thank whichever deity (or prominent YouTuber, we guess) that you believe in for the “Boomer Shooter” explosion, and we mean explosion. Now that those who grew up on the original Quake (currently available in a very good edition on Switch) are themselves developers, we’re seeing a bigtime resurgence of old-school style first-person shooters, and we can’t get enough. Unfortunately they’ve been a little bit slim in the ol’ pickings on Nintendo, with only a passable port of Ion Fury and the rather good Project Warlock holding up the side. Until now.
Yes! The game that kickstarted the whole Boomer Shooter thing, New Blood’s brilliant, bloodthirsty Dusk, has finally hit the Switch after over a year of delay. Believe us when we say that the developers didn’t just sit on their hands — this is a game polished to the nth degree, a port that feels completely native to the Switch. It runs at a locked 60fps with zero hitching, slowdown or stuttering. Levels load in about two seconds. And, in what’s fast becoming a cliché, it looks spectacular on OLED. This is a port that should become a point of comparison in future, an exemplary effort that quite frankly shames all the half-speed, dingy attempts to drag other system’s games onto handheld.
Read the full article on nintendolife.com
