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ATOM RPG Switch NSP Free Download Playing some Fallout 76 months ago I started to yearn to be able to play the original Fallout on a modern system. The Fallout series is a group of post-apocalyptic RPGs. I had started Fallout 1 when it first came out way back in 1997 but never completed it. Then one day on my guild’s forum pages I saw someone mention Atom RPG as being a spiritual successor to the Fallout series. I missed the boat on its Kickstarter and eventually its release in 2018 onto Steam PC. I saw it got positive reviews on Steam but I never quite pulled the trigger. Months ago I saw it advertised for forthcoming release on the Nintendo Switch and figured this was my chance. ROMSLAB.COM BEST SWITCH GAMES

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So I sought out developer Atom Team‘s post-apocalyptic turn-based RPG on Nintendo Switch for review hoping to relive the Fallout moments I had. The Atom Team used all the appropriate buzzwords about Atom RPG in their description. It’s a post-apocalyptic game, “inspired by classic CRPGs: Fallout, System Shock, Deus Ex, Baldur’s Gate”. I figured this was the “one” and in principle, that’s not a far off statement. You’ll play in 1986 when both the Soviet Union and the Western Bloc were destroyed in nuclear bombings upon each other. You are one of the survivors of this nuclear holocaust. You’ll end up investigating this Soviet Wasteland trying to figure out where you fit in.

Fallout of a different flavor

Computer Role Playing Games (CRPGs) such as the Fallout series, to me, are often tedious, bloated-feeling experiences with punishingly difficult restrictions. Such restrictions include being encumbered and not allowed to move for holding too many items, making resources so scarce that calling each decision hand-to-mouth is generous, or skills and attributes that only work by min-maxing them to make you a powerhouse in one or two areas only. This is a forewarning for anyone like me—ATOM RPG falls squarely within that category, even more so since it appears to line-up more with the first few Fallout titles in format & style, swapping the post-Apocalyptic Americana with a radiated Soviet Russia motif instead. Ruiner Switch NSP

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The story is straightforward: Mutually Assured Destruction happened in the mid-80s, bringing with it the advent of a post-apocalyptic world of scant towns, decrepit abandoned facilities, and scrap—so much scrap. As a member of the secret society A.T.O.M., you are sent out to find a missing search party (ironically), and are shortly afterward mugged by bandits and left with nothing. Combat is turn-based, using an isometric view with tile square movements and action points; offense and defense are affected not just by stats/perks chosen at level up, but weapons and armor you find along the way. Different points of interest like towns and vacant facilities are identified on the map, and as you walk from point A to B, random encounters will occur such as traveling caravans to buy and sell goods from (with Rubles as currency) or bandits looking to kill you and pick your corpse clean.

For those sensitive to load times,

Know that ATOM RPG is rife with them: twenty seconds at a time every time you enter or leave a town or dungeon, have a random encounter, or explore some outpost. It was excruciating how much it broke up the action for me. That said, I did my best to take ATOM RPG through its paces and give it the fairest shakes possible for someone predisposed to not enjoy it. I have for you a tale of two A.T.O.M. agents – Maria and Beavis (yes, Beavis was a custom name). Maria had Sex Appeal and was a Slick Dealer, two distinctions that made her a sliver-tongued devil (especially with men), but in exchange weakened her and reduced her carrying capacity. Rune Factory 4 Special Switch NSP

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After the ceremonial mugging of the game’s introduction, she trekked to the closest town of Otradnoye, speaking to several locals, most of them with an understandingly myopic view of their plight and way of life. After picking crops for an old hunter and being given a shotgun without any ammo, she took on a job to get a copy of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” for the bartender from the distant town of Krasnozamenny. Her walking across the wasteland was a slog. Slow, plodding movement in the overworld made the trek from town to other areas of interest an exercise in frustration. The wastelands were rife with random encounters, which coupled with the aforementioned oppressive load screens & times hard to swallow.

The separate locations for points of interest

Random encounters were smaller slices of map which felt more interactive like the towns, but they similarly were often a plodding event, having to wander that map with no indication of where people or buildings were. It may be more true to form for a wasteland, but it cuts into the fun. Maria encountered a trio of men at a campfire, all three frozen in a stand-off. The first one after some coaxing let her in on a secret: the other two men had been panicking about a tall tale of a worm that would burrow its way into the victim’s head, controlling its mind and rendering them unable to adequately recall all their memories. They had feared each other had been infested with them. Rune Factory 5 Switch NSP

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Maria in a cunning act informed the first man that they were both indeed paranoid and plotting against him, planting the seed for them to turn on each other, but she didn’t return to see the fruit of her labor. The travel was plodding, and hunger clawed at her health until remembering she could set-camp and eat a can of pre-war meat that somehow didn’t go bad. While checking the wastes for supplies, she encountered toxic waste that infected her with radiation poisoning. In spite of that, she eventually stumbled onto Krasnozamenny. While trying to find the bookkeeper, she noticed all the locals started speaking in strange reverse language, or worse, repeating that this existence isn’t real—she had contracted radiation poisoning.

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