The controls in Tesla vs Lovecraft are spot on, with even some additional options to tweak. Dead zone manipulation is available, as well as the option to use aiming direction to teleport. Go elsewhere in the options section and you will find more choices available than I expected. Now I’d like to go back to those profiles. There’s no reviving here, so best to watch each other’s back. And after playing some local cooperative games I should say, if your partner succumbs to the fiends, that’s it. Cooperative play defaults to the player’s current profile but additional slots allow players to use a separate profile for cooperative if they choose. I did not experience any slowdown playing in the single player campaign. I did notice a bit of slowdown once in a while and wonder if it would be worse with three and even four players, but it is hardly noticeable and with all that happens on the screen I don’t fault the game too much. But as a twin-stick shooter, not having well, twin sticks makes for an inferior experience and we had fun using the second controller. The game does not support individual Joy-Cons, or at least my kid and I weren’t able to get them working. Speaking of cooperative play, Tesla vs Lovecraft can be played as a single player campaign or in co-op mode for two to four players in local multiplayer. Perks picked up as you fight improve your firepower like by providing an extra barrel or increasing your rate of fire, improve your character like by increasing speed and health, damage enemies like with radiation or lightning clouds, or even provide all future powerups to your friends playing cooperatively. Abilities are secondary weapons that are limited but powerful, and help you when you need them most. Everything you acquire is temporary, so the shotgun you become quite fond of should be ditched in favor of the next weapon full of ammo so you can continue the fight. The weapons are unique and not something you should find yourself attached to, for good reason. Steps are taken further into fleshing out the atmosphere when arenas given interesting names, and monsters you encounter can be seen and read about in the Monsterpedia. Sights and sounds throughout Tesla vs Lovecraft add a heavy coat of polish. The heavy usage of purple and green of the enemy contrasting the blue and red from the actions of your protagonist, add to the chaotic fun when explosions, projectiles, and slain foes are filling the screen. The chilling music playing during the selection screen and sound effects that aptly fit the their applications make it worth putting on some headphones. There’s another aspect to this game that isn’t always something to address in a game aside from maybe a survival horror or RPG, and that is the atmosphere. Tesla vs Lovecraft feels concise in that it clearly knows who it is, yet crammed full of content that is just what it needs – no more, no less. Even more, there’s inventions that can be unlocked and upgraded with crystals. Along with the weapons, which are a mix of real and imagined, there are abilities and perks. There’s more to the shooting than just the weapons and more to moving than just the left stick, however. This is a twin-stick arena shooter for one to four players, and it is just plain fun while not being plain in the slightest.Īs a twin-stick arena shooter, you have weapons to use when fighting off the masses bent on your destruction and are best to stay on the move to avoid being overrun. With a writer and an inventor both wearing suits and neckties, science vs fiction might not seem like the most threatening matchup, but then you realize that one commands tentacled beasts and the other uses lightning rods to dispatch said beasts. You are Nikola Tesla, and you are fighting against the infernal creatures led by H.P. But just why is this game featuring the names of two notable figures in history? An introduction informs you of why there exists such an adversarial title and then you jump in. Then seeing the images of Tesla and Lovecraft on their respective steeds, everything just gets me hyped. There’s even a loading indicator icon that looks cool. As it loads and on into the main menu, there’s this intro song that is one of the better ways I can recall ever starting a video game. Right from the start, I realized they put some thought into the game with quote from namesakes Nikola Tesla and H.P. Tesla vs Lovecraft is a game on Nintendo Switch, from developer 10Tons. Maybe you’ll want to have a friend or three join you? Only you start in a mech, bitchin’ rock music is blasting, and you have a variety of lethal inventions at your disposal to dispatch hordes of monsters. Playing Tesla vs Lovecraft is like starting a trail run at the top of a descent with the thrill of keeping your wits about you while you run, navigating hazards until you see the end in sight, so the branches and rocks don’t cause you to land on your face.
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