This is a killer arsenal, literally and figuratively - you can dual wield shotguns, get precise with a hunting rifle, slice enemies to ribbons with twin sickles or simply blow them into smithereens with explosive rockets which, of course, also open up the world of rocket jumping. Speed and slick motion are this game's priority over realism and weight, though thanks to excellent sound design every single time you fire a gun it feels like the world is about to come to a crashing end. Unless you play with your eyes closed (the sort of insanity you should save for AGDQ), you'll always know what killed you, why and how. Difficulty options range from laughably simplistic to psychotically tough, but even on the hardest "Duskmare" level, the game feels fair and balanced in favour of skilled play. Yes, there's exploration, key hunting and some platforming for (brilliantly hidden) secrets, but by and large you'll be utilising those trigger skills above all else.
Shooting feels amazing, which is a good thing because it's pretty much the entire game - Dusk is suitably old-school in its pursuit of doing a single thing very well. This is a port that should become a point of comparison in future, an exemplary effort that quite frankly shames all the half-speed, dingy attempts to drag other system's games onto handheld. And, in what's fast becoming a cliché, it looks spectacular on OLED. It runs at a locked 60fps with zero hitching, slowdown or stuttering. Believe us when we say that the developers didn't just sit on their hands - this is a game polished to the nth degree, a port that feels completely native to the Switch. Yes! The game that kickstarted the whole Boomer Shooter thing, New Blood's brilliant, bloodthirsty Dusk, has finally hit the Switch after over a year of delay.
Unfortunately they've been a little bit slim in the ol' pickings on Nintendo, with only a passable port of Ion Fury and the rather good Project Warlock holding up the side. Now that those who grew up on the original Quake (currently available in a very good edition on Switch) are themselves developers, we're seeing a bigtime resurgence of old-school style first-person shooters, and we can't get enough. Thank whichever deity (or prominent YouTuber, we guess) that you believe in for the "Boomer Shooter" explosion, and we mean explosion.
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