Agnostiko VS

Genre: Fighting Game

Players: 1-2 Competitive (Local)

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Review:

Agnostiko VS, a spin-off of Agnostiko Origins, is a Fighting Game released in 2025 on Nintendo Switch, with the game’s eShop page naming it as the sequel to Agnostiko Origins.

And… yeah, it might as well be. If you read my review of Agnostiko Origins, you’ll recall that I absolutely hated it, and said it was a broken, unpolished mess of a game. And I won’t bury the lead here: Agnostiko VS is also a broken, unpolished mess of a game, although at the very least this time it’s not one that gets you stuck in the first area you find yourself in.

Like most Fighting games, you get a selection of characters, including the masked hero from Agnostiko Origins, with each character having a punch, kick, dodge, block, and special move that uses its own charging meter, as well as a character-specific super move that requires charging up as well.

None of this matters, because it seems that your best strategy here is to just walk up to your opponent and button-mash. The gameplay here is so unpolished and bizarre, lacking any real nuance or timing for your attacks, that attempting to approach it like an actual good Fighting game just slows you down and leaves you open to attacks.

Like Agnostiko Origins, this game features a 2D art style, with larger characters this time, that has clunky, lacking animations, backed by repetitive chiptune music that you’ll want to mute. Oh, and despite there being nothing especially impressive going on here, the loading times are absurdly long.

All of this for… oof, $20. In a game I once again would not pay $2 to play, at least if I wasn’t playing it to review. Yet another unpolished mess of a game, and absolutely not anything that anyone should waste money on.

tl;dr – Agnostiko VS is a Fighting Game that is horribly unpolished, with clunky gameplay that seems to encourage button-mashing more than any sort of strategy. Do not waste your money on this.

Grade: F

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