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Sword of the Vagrant Switch NSP Free Download Romslab The story of Sword of the Vagrant is interesting, at least. Our bikini clad hero, Vivian, is a Runewarden, like her father and sister before her, and while the rest of her family seem to have met a variety of sticky ends, Vivian herself has dedicated herself to becoming a mercenary, a sellsword, selling her skills to the highest bidder. As the game opens we have just parted company with a bunch of sellswords as they took on more work for a tyrannical king, and as luck would have it, we are just in time to save a young lady from being killed, and thus a train of events is set in motion. These events involve a witch, a curse, an apprentice wizard and many monsters and bosses that need to be defeated. ROMSLAB.COM Best Switch Games

Sword of the Vagrant Switch NSP Free Download Romslab

The first test of a decent game is passed easily and the narrative is strong enough to keep us playing. The graphical style is very nice indeed too, with a very neat hand-drawn aesthetic to it. Further, the design of the monsters, NPCs and Vivian herself are all very good. Quite why all the ladies in the game (yes, even the NPCs that don’t do anything) are drawn with such large top halves is beyond me, but still, the different monsters all look good as do the boss designs; especially one of the later ones that seems to be made up of a pile of writhing skeletons and definitely needs a good slapping about with a blade.

Multiple weapons, armors, and accessories to loot, purchase, and discover.

However, there is something odd about the animation of Vivian as she walks, and whilst it took me a moment to put my finger on it, it is this: when Vivian is running right to left, her sword is in her right hand, and her right arm is encased in metal. When she faces left, the sword is suddenly in her left hand, and her left arm is encased in metal. I did spend a couple of minutes swapping her from left to right for a giggle, I have to admit. After launching on Steam in 2017, O.T.K Games’ The Vagrant has finally released on consoles with the new alias Sword of the Vagrant. The game is heavily inspired by the games of Vanillaware; renowned developers of games like Muramasa: The Demon Blade and Dragon’s Crown. Moero Chronicle Hyper Switch

Sword of the Vagrant Switch NSP Free Download Romslab

This inspiration can be seen straight away with the wonderful hand-drawn art style, and even down to the smaller elements like the animation and the uhh… let’s call it “sometimes gratuitous” character designs. A 2D hack-and-slash adventure with some light Metroidvania-style exploration elements, Sword of the Vagrant places you in the shoes of Vivian; a young sellsword sailing toward the island of Mythrilla in search of her missing father. After being faced with a mysterious owl guy, her ship conveniently wrecks on the beaches of Mythrilla. After assisting a young local woman, Vivian returns with her to a village in ruin and is soon cursed by an evil witch who demands that she retrieve magic artefacts, or else she will destroy Vivian instantly.

A large-scaled skill set to enhance character builds for immersive and intense gameplay.

To ensure our hero does not try and escape, the witch sends her disciple Camden along for the journey to keep watch. The Vagrant’s story is interesting; however, due to the sheer amount of exposition between the characters, it can be easy to lose the thread of what exactly the characters are discussing. However, Camden’s character arc throughout the journey and his relationship with Vivian are highlights, their scenes together helping to humanise the latter and her usually stone-cold demeanour. Vivian starts off with a fairly barebones moveset, making the early game a bit of a slog at times. Monaco: Complete Edition Switch

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However, once you begin to unlock extra combos and special moves — through a skill tree finding items in the overworld — combat gains a bit of momentum and becomes more interesting. That momentum doesn’t last, as Vivian’s combo list ends up consisting of just a handful of different combos, meaning that repetition returns. There’s no autosave system, meaning death will send you back to when you last saved; luckily, this isn’t an issue for most of the game as the overworld is rarely a challenge, and most bosses have a save point just before their arena, except the final boss where a long, tedious structure and lack of checkpointing easily added an hour to our nine-hour playtime.

10+ challenging Boss monster with intuitive AI and battle mechanics. Challenging even for the most advanced players.

As we mentioned, the art style looks great and the game runs well in handheld mode, although it has the tendency to get a bit choppy when docked. We also ran into a few glitches over the course of the adventure, the most common causing Vivian to just slide across the screen while stuck in a crouch animation, and a soft lock later in the game in which the character would not stop walking right into a wall. By no means are these extreme and you would hope they’ll be patched, but they got a bit frustrating over time. These issues aside, Sword of the Vagrant held our attention and, especially considering the modest asking price, is still worthy of light investigation if you’re a fan of rough-and-ready hack-and-slashing.

Sword of the Vagrant Switch NSP Free Download Romslab

I suspect you’d like to know more about the actual gameplay next, yes? Well, Sword of the Vagrant is very much a game, not quite of two halves, but more of two thirds against one third. The smaller section of the game is spent exploring and looking for items to collect, be that money, weapon, armour or anything else. As you explore the world, the game is made up of short stages, with at most two other exits, and each time you walk off the edge of one stage, the next one is loaded and away you go again. The game also fills in a very rudimentary map as you explore, which looks like nothing so much as when I used to map out old text-based adventures using graph paper and a series of squares – this isn’t the most detailed map I’ve ever seen, put it that way. Musou Orochi 2 Ultimate Switch

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