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Transcripted Switch NSP Free Download GAMESPACK.NET Transcripted, developed by Alkemi, is a new take on two well established game types: the twin stick shooter and the match three puzzle game. Both have seen much popularity recently amongst indie game developers. However, Transcripted has managed to take these elements and blend them together into a thoroughly enjoyable experience. With the flood of releases on the Switch eShop it may be easy to overlook this one, but that’d overlook the soul that was poured into it. The developers clearly felt passion for this project, creating a rather simple game but with just enough complexity to intrigue even the most ardent gamer. The way Transcripted chooses to go about its gameplay model is to introduce the player to a basic plot to accompany the core hook, though in this case a storyline isn’t strictly necessary. You take on the role of a talented geneticist who pilots a nanobot capable of rewriting genetic code. The genetic strands appear as moving lines of coloured DNA with which the player must either – using the match three concept – queue up three of the same colour in order to delete that section, or in certain stages prevent a match three from happening by breaking the strands up. While this basic puzzle type seems innocuous, this is where the twin stick gameplay comes along to shake it up..TOP/BEST ADULT VIDEO GAMES IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA)

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While all this genetic puzzling is occuring, pathogens of varying abilities will appear in order to destroy your nanobot. The nanobot does, however, come with a variety of defense mechanisms such as a rechargable shield, “machine-gun” style weapons, a laser beam capable of penetrating multiple targets, and other upgrades that become available as gameplay progresses. By destroying the pathogens certain upgrades may appear, but the bulk will contain the single coloured DNA strands used in the match three puzzles. This is how Transcripted manages to neatly combine the match three and twin-stick styles. One feeds the other, prompting plenty of back and forth until enough objectives have been completed for each stage. In between stages you can also spend collected points to upgrade the nanobot’s weapons, shield, movement or various other features. One thing to note is how pretty the game looks and sounds on the Switch. As a rather simple indie game it may not require much of the hardware, but Transcripted does manage to make good use of it nonetheless. It always look sharp and clear, the colours pop against the dark background and the soundtrack is absolutely enthralling, using simple melodies that serve to bring a relaxing zen state while fighting genetic pathogens bent on destroying the organism you need to protect.

Twin stick shooter meets “match three” puzzles for addictive, tactical and fast-paced action.

The combination is quite endearing. One criticism we have, however, is that the control scheme is not as intuitive as we’d like. Certain actions, such as aiming to fire the gene strands, require precision to be accurate and the Joy-Con’s rather touchy control sticks make this rather difficult. However, it certainly does not make the game unplayable and it can be adapted to over time. The protagonists of Transcripted’s story spend a couple of hours puzzling over the origins of a complex and lethal virus, but it will take most players only a few seconds to identify the origins of the game itself. For all its talk of false DNA and Big Pharma, it’s a straight-up hybrid of twin-stick shooters like Geometry Wars and tile matchers like Zuma, but in a marketplace where developers are mashing together genres like George Mendel blending plant species, it shines as one of the finer efforts. It manages to feel at once like dozens of other games but like nothing you’ve ever played before, and it’s a rewarding experience that’s well worth its humble price tag. As if the odd mixture of Zuma and dual-stick shooters weren’t fascinating enough, the storyline also pushes the limits of what’s expected. Similar puzzlers usually satisfy the need for context with a vague string of sentences describing plot details.Distant Kingdoms

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Transcripted bulges with around half an hour’s worth of competently voiced dialogue between a nasty pharmaceutical businessman with an English accent. A sleep-deprived programmer named Adam who steers the probe you control, and a female AI named NADIA. The story is simple fluff that nevertheless achieves a certain charm at times, such as when NADIA and Adam swap quips with all the flirtatiousness of Mass Effect’s Joker and EDI, but it also eases Transcripted into a fairly manageable learning curve over its 25 levels. In the early tutorial stages, the idea is that you’re just blasting apart strands of malignant DNA in the lab, but as the story veers toward concerns of bioterrorism and alien interference, it introduces killer lasers and pathogens that fire plasma cannons in a way that fits well with the urgency of the storyline. Maintaining the biomedical setting requires an increasingly forced suspension of disbelief with all these lasers going off, but Transcripted handles it well for a game that would have been fine without a story. That’s mostly because it meshes the ideas behind the two genres so well that jumping into the first levels of gameplay without a tutorial requires only that you imagine yourself playing both on the same screen. In each match, you control a probe that fires projectiles at floating pathogens much as you’d fire lasers at space rubble in Asteroids.

25 core campaign missions, and 5 Challenge levels for scoring competition.

And you pick up the colored cubes these enemies sometimes drop with the aim of firing them at three or more cubes in the moving pseudo-DNA strands that surround you. It doesn’t take long for this formula to get intense (especially when you consider that both Geometry Wars and Zuma get intense enough on their own), which makes the option to independently adjust the difficulty of the shooting and the tile-matching a welcome one. If you’re a master of the tile-matching portion but less adept at the shooter aspect, for instance, you can crank the puzzle setting to hard and nudge the shooter portion to easy. Such options are especially useful in the enjoyable boss fights, which hinge on clever uses of the strategies you learn in prior levels. Transcripted’s design makes bold strides toward easing you into its learning curve; for instance, it grants breathing room for shots by temporarily registering the probe as one of the pathogens while it’s carrying the globs at the expense of slowed movement. This allows enemy projectiles to bounce off your shield, and cloaks you from enemy pathogens. Elsewhere, upgrades abound, allowing you to install better weapons to blast through enemies more quickly or boost your probe’s health and speed if you’re dying too much.Cleo a pirate’s tale Switch NSP

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The upgrade system inspires replay and bestows a clear sense of progression and improvement, particularly since you can get more credits to spend on the upgrades only if you beat your score from a previous attempt. This detail alleviates concerns of simply replaying easier levels to snag better gear. Further replay value arises from the five challenge rooms, which limit the probe’s upgrades and include worldwide leaderboards. It’s a credit to Transcripted’s design that you never lose sight of what’s going on, thanks to a smart use of color, even in the later stages when the screen is packed with flying projectiles, increasingly complex DNA strands, and enemy pathogens. It’s also a visually striking game, with a limited but arresting assortment of backgrounds that mimic the wonders seen through electron microscopes. The visuals are complemented by a softly pulsing soundtrack that suits the biological setting and manages to walk a delicate line between soothing and intense. The combination is such that Transcripted is relaxing once you’ve mastered its idiosyncrasies, even in the frantic final levels when you’re shaking off toxins and attempting to stave off pathogens from specific zones across the map. Sometimes a game can have too much story. An action game or RPG, even a shooter, needs that.

Memorable, ambient score.

Context makes the wheels turn, brings the game world to life. While I understand the reasoning behind giving games like Transcripted a story, I also wonder if it does more harm than good. It’s a twin-stick shooter / match 3 hybrid that does a more than decent job of being either. You control a microscopic drone inside the body of a test subject, and your job is to eradicate a virus by repairing DNA sequences. I think. Essentially you shoot cells to leave behind a coloured block, which you then shoot into a chain of coloured blocks, matching 3 to fill up a meter at the top of the screen. The mechanics are solid, the controls are responsive and overall it’s a lot of fun. Your drone has a replenishable shield and unlockable weapons to cycle through, further bolstered by collectible power-ups. It’s all par for the genre, but the presentation is impressive and what’s here feels well put-together if not particularly fresh. It can be a genuine challenge to stay alive, and periodic boss fights add another hurdle that only perseverance and concentration will see you over. Between each mission you’ll get the chance to upgrade you skill trees, which is a nice touch, but almost feels like a mechanic too far. I’m not one to complain about skill trees, but simple milestone upgrades would be a better fit for a game about speed and efficiency.

Still, it’s another idea they’ve packed in to fatten the package. However, the big “but” lurking behind all this praise is that the storyline and narrative actually feel intrusive. There’s a plot involving Adam the hacker who pilots the probe, a handler / AI called Nadia, and a shady overlord type who butts in between stages to prattle on with static dialogue on a dull background that does nothing but delay the actual gameplay. It’s hard to care about Adam or his “mission”, partly because he’s such a smart-Alec dick, so it just feels irritating. It’s also incredibly heavy-handed with the tooltips, repeatedly bombarding you with distracting, flashing pop-ups to clumsily explain every new element. It doesn’t come across as a natural way to learn the mechanics, and succeeds in being just another thing that interrupts the good stuff. Transcripted is a mixture of two incredibly addictive and vastly popular casual gaming styles: the dual-stick shooter and the match three puzzle game. In Transcripted players take control of the Nano Probe, a microscopic apparatus used to combat disease. With the aid of a skill tree that improves ship equipment, health, shields and the Nano Probe’s arsenal of upgradeable weapons, players must successfully navigate through hordes of deadly pathogens to destroy the disease’s pseudo-DNA as it twines perilously on its endless path to infection.

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Along the way players must defeat gigantic boss colonies the pathogen has evolved with the sole purpose of stopping the Nano Probe from completing its mission. Difficulty levels of both puzzle and shooting segments can be adjusted independently to suit every play style, making Transcripted an amazingly replayable experience. Yet for all its strengths, Transcripted isn’t without its issues. Its unique hybridization works best when it’s playing it safe by simply mashing the two genres together, but it falters when it attempts to introduce gameplay elements of its own. These weaknesses are most apparent in escort missions, which subvert the matching genre by asking you to prevent enemy pathogens from making matches on DNA strands by tossing in white blocks that disrupt the chains. These missions always feel awkward even with the best upgrades, especially since the need to fight at the same time disrupts the extreme concentration and precision required. Elsewhere, the settings screen indicates that you can play Transcripted with an Xbox 360 controller, but plugging one might only activate the hint screen when you press the Y button. Some players have discovered workarounds, but these troubles are a shame, since a controller is better suited to the game than a keyboard and mouse.60 Parsecs!

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