Head for the hills, the prepare station’s on fireplace.
Because the resident prepare man at Nintendo World Report, I used to be very excited after I heard that Railway Empire 2 was introduced and coming to the Swap. Enjoying the unique on the Swap, although it was launched years after the PC model, was an incredible expertise and scratched the recurring Railroad Tycoon itch. And now it was transportable, which was even higher! So when it lastly got here out, I made positive to leap on reviewing it.
Sadly the port of Railway Empire 2 to Swap is so buggy, it’s mainly unplayable. I used to be delaying writing the overview in hopes of an replace to make the sport work appropriately, however as of this writing, I haven’t seen an replace. The large difficulty is that the sport randomly crashes the system, requiring a tough reset. It occurred twice throughout simply the tutorial ranges, which then pushed me to only attempt beginning the marketing campaign, and that then crashed within the first stage after about 20 minutes in. One other, smaller difficulty with the tutorial is that at sure instances, it could require you to position sure components in a particular spot, however relying on the way you laid your monitor beforehand, it could not will let you lay that factor. This wouldn’t be an issue, however the tutorial at this level doesn’t allow you to again out of that menu to repair the monitor’s placement, (which you possibly can do within the regular recreation), requiring you to restart the tutorial stage.
Except for the preliminary bugs, the graphics are horrendous, in a method that makes this Swap port appear a long time behind. I went again to the unique recreation (operating on the identical precise Swap) simply to verify I wasn’t fooling myself, and whereas the graphics within the unique recreation aren’t wonderful, they’re lightyears higher than Railway Empire 2’s graphics on Nintendo’s hybrid.
The sport has some brilliant spots, although I didn’t get to discover it an excessive amount of due to the aforementioned glitches and crashes. The trackbuilding has been reworked to require much less micromanaging, with enhancements such because the station gridiron, which is a monitor factor that features a sequence of switches and a sign bridge going over parallel tracks that robotically direct trains into an empty spot on the station. This may be dropped as a single factor in entrance of the station, as a substitute of getting to structure all of the monitor switches manually. The sport additionally makes it simpler to sign and direct trains by robotically putting in indicators on parallel tracks. This could make it simpler to deal with the extra financial components of the sport, however honestly I wasn’t in a position to play it sufficient to see if my idea was appropriate.
Total, except an replace comes out to repair the glitches, both go purchase the sport on one other platform or simply return to taking part in the unique Railway Empire on Swap. With graphics the best way they’re, it most likely isn’t well worth the frustration of making an attempt to get it to work. It’s a disgrace as I see that they put work into bettering the monitor laying system, however it simply doesn’t appear like they put work into the Swap port.