Full Metal Furies

Genre: Arcade Brawler

Players: 1-4 Co-Op (Local, Local Wireless, Online)

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Review:

Full Metal Furies is an Arcade Brawler style game released on PC, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch in 2018. Players take on the role of a band of warriors with anachronistic weaponry hunting down monstrous titans to save humanity.

The presentation in this game is good, featuring hand-drawn 2D characters and backgrounds, and an energetic synthesized soundtrack. There’s nothing particularly impressive going on here, but the character designs are nice.

When it comes to the gameplay, Full Metal Furies does some interesting things with the genre. There are four characters, each with a very distinct class and skill set – a tank, a warrior, an engineer, and a sniper. In co-op, players will each choose one of these characters to play, but in single-player they’ll select two that they can freely swap between. They’ll need to do so, as some enemies are only vulnerable to one of the classes selected. Players will build up these characters over time, spending collected gold to upgrade these characters via a skill tree.

There’s a lot I like about this setup, but unfortunately the problem is in the execution. The characters are all painfully slow, with their moves taking far too long to execute, and then all but the most basic moves having a frustratingly long cooldown. Unless your timing is perfect, you’re going to take a lot of damage even from the most basic of enemies. If one of your characters gets downed, then you even have the fun of trying to stand in place long enough to revive them, something that’s often necessary when remaining enemies are only vulnerable to their class.

You might think that the skill tree system would help to balance this out, though. After all, if you’re struggling with enemies, you can always go back and grind your characters up to be unstoppable, right? Well, the problem there is that grinding in the game takes a frustratingly long time, especially if you want to upgrade all of the characters, as gold is shared among characters.

It’s disappointing to have to say this, but Full Metal Furies is just too frustrating to be worth bothering with when there are so many other great Arcade Brawlers on the Nintendo Switch. The sluggish characters, long cooldowns, and slow progression all make for a game that’s too tedious to make good use of its better qualities.

tl;dr – Full Metal Furies is an Arcade-style Brawler about a group of four warriors hunting down humanity-threatening titans using anachronistic weaponry. It has some creative mechanics, but unfortunately it also has multiple issues that slow the game down and make it far more tedious and frustrating than it needs to be. You have much better options for Arcade Brawlers on Nintendo Switch.

Grade: C

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