

Splitting up the Joycons can feel quite uncomfortable when you are playing with a friend, especially if you have larger hands as I do. It’s one of the most unique elements of the game, and at the heart of the game’s comedy. You’ll be using this to hold onto ledges, climb walls, or launch a friend to their certain death. Gang Beasts relied on you controlling the grip of each individual arm. The real issue that arises when taking the Gang Beasts experience on the go is the comfortability of the Joycons. Even then, however, you may feel a small strain, but this just comes with the territory of a seven-inch screen. However, you’d definitely benefit from the extra dimension and popping colors of the Nintendo Switch OLED, which I was lucky enough to play Gang Beasts on. Sharing a single wide view means that Gang Beasts is totally playable on the single handheld screen. Of course, the added benefit here is that you can split the Switch up and instantly square off with a mate wherever you are.
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The full experience is here as well, with new maps and all. With its low-detail textures and lovable physics, this is Gang Beasts through and through. It was delightful to find that the base experience remains relatively unchanged on Switch. I genuinely cried with laughter when my brother grasped onto a single strand of my hair to desperately pull himself from death. Whether you are hanging on for dear life on the side of a truck or headbutting the final cable on a sky-high elevator. With its range of stupid character outfits and small maps, throwing people off ledges is fun pretty much all the time. It speaks to the ingenuity of Gang Beasts, that it works so well on Switch. It is filled with a bunch of modes that range from solo to co-op to even online, and while they might not all hold the same level of entertainment, there is something here for every kind of player.

Whether it is 10 minutes in bed, or a full session with the Switch docked, you’re going to be laughing your ass off regardless. It encapsulates the run-and-gun style of gameplay that I find the Switch excels in. As if this wasn’t fun enough, Gang Beasts has hit the road with its portal release on Nintendo Switch.īringing Gang Beasts to the Switch, in many ways, feels like a match made in heaven. Released on consoles a few years ago, I’ve hosted some epic sessions where words were screamed, fists were thrown in the air, and in-game headbutts were dished out.

There are few games out there that have made me laugh quite as hard as Gang Beasts.
