Manticore: Galaxy on Fire is a good step up for the series. While it does feel a little short, and I would have loved to see a multiplayer mode, it’s a good experience for anyone looking to play a quick, on-the-go shooter. The missions are a little repetitive but the action-packed gameplay, beautiful graphics, and ship customization had me coming back for more.
Manticore - Galaxy on Fire
Deep Silver Fishlabs · Mar 22, 2018
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FIGHT RUTHLESS SPACE PIRATES IN THE #1 SCI-FI ACTION SHOOTER!
MAKE YOUR STAND BEYOND THE STARS
Write your legacy in gunfire and smoke as you take down the galaxy's most wanted criminals in action-packed dogfights! Rise to become the hero of the Neox Sector – a deadly fringe world terrorized by ruthless crime lords and their no-good underlings!
FIGHT SPACE PIRATES
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- 4.5Truly, I think the good folks at Deep Silver are a talented bunch, capable of making great games. Seeing them relegated to porting a mediocre game from the mobile devices instead of creating a new title that would better showcase their talent as well as the strength of the platform is a shame indeed. If you’ve been waiting for a quality game to fill that void until Star Fox makes a return on the Switch, you best keep waiting.
- It is in the thrill of space combat that Manticore: Galaxy on Fire comes alive, as you get an enemy in your sights and mercilessly hunt them down. It's not without its imperfections, but genre fans will get more than enough from the spectacle of it all.
- While nowhere near as complex or challenging as it thinks it is, Manticore is an enjoyable title for those who miss spacecraft fighter games like Rogue Squadron on a Nintendo platform. It’s easy, its missions are short, but the perfect length for a portable system.
- 6.5Manticore: Galaxy on Fire isn’t a bad game, but it exists in a genre that hasn’t yet found its feet. When you can fight and fly it’s incredible and works well on both the big and small screen of the Switch. While other genres have spent the past decades perfecting and refining themselves, flight simulators, to me at least, are still experimenting. Some try and focus on plot, or exploration, or combat but none yet have not managed to balance all these elements.
- 8.0Manticore: Galaxy on Fire is an outstanding example of mobile-to-Switch done right. A gorgeous looking, content-heavy slice of space shooting action with a deep plot, set in a lore filled universe that has taken years to mature during a decade since the Galaxy on Fire series premiered in the mobile market.
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