New Game Review – Vaccine (Switch) | Way Too Many Games

Bringing back the worst memories from 1996.

Just like the premise of most horror movies featuring zombies and mutated creatures, Vaccine is an interesting idea gone so poorly executed it was turned into a monstrosity. This is sadly one of the worst games available for the Nintendo Switch right now, even though it is quite an original concept made by just one brave person.

[MLGecko]

Ew... Switch

[DaDrunkenJester]

Props for the effort... I guess?

[lptmg]

I want my 1,000 yen back regardless

[lptmg]

pretty sure tank controls are the worst control scheme ever envisioned

[NapalmSanctuary]

Only if you suck at using them. Maybe this game bad, I'll give you that, but its not cause it uses tank controls.

[DaDrunkenJester]

Tank controls should have died with the invention of dual analog controllers which was in '97. Developers just took a while to really figure out how to control players and the camera in 3D...

[NapalmSanctuary]

Acting like there is only one acceptable form of controlling a character on screen is like saying there is only one acceptable flavor of ice cream or only one acceptable set of toppings for a pizza. Old school RE games weren't good for what they were, they were great because of what they were. The fact that they don't make any good games with those sorts of cameras and controls any more isn't an evolution of gaming, its a dumbing down of the medium.

[OniFenix]

Switch the GOAT, amirite?

[chris235]

the switch is still a thing?

[Joel_Drake2]

Apparently it didn't die after Breath of the Wild. Haha

[NapalmSanctuary]

Dude... tank controls aren't going to make you spin around when the camera angle changes. Thats precisely what they are there to prevent. Forward on the d-pad is always forward for the player character. Also, they were fine in 96 and they're fine now. Being unable to use them well doesn't make them bad, its just means you're limited in your ability to adapt to different things. BTW tank controls are still in REmake and RE:0 remasters and are still the best and most precise way to play those games. Also, RE4 uses tank controls too, they just put the camera behind the character instead of using shifting camera angles. The only difference between RE4 and the classics, in terms of controls, is the ability to do precise aiming.

[DaDrunkenJester]

I know from plenty of experience that in some games when the camera changes, so does the orientation of the character and the direction of the movement. It happens all the damn time haha also this isn't '96 anymore nor is this a remake of a game that has these controls so no excuses. RE4 fixes this issue with a 3rd person camera angle so there is no fixed camera control issues when the camera decided to swap.

[NapalmSanctuary]

Of course the orientation of the character and the direction of the movement is going to change, thats part of the game design. Its one of the most interesting aspects of the shifting camera angles and the way it forces your mind to interpret the illusion of 3D space. The author says it like changing the camera angle makes the character actually spin, not talking about an illusion created by shifting camera perspective. Your issue with fixed cameras and tank controls are your issues. If you don't like that then fair enough, I don't like onions on my pizza, but don't pretend that it is somehow an objective gripe. There are plenty of people that love those games for exactly what they are.

While RE4 is a great game, it fixes nothing within the genre of survival horror. If anything, it put the genre on ice for several years. It revolutionized 3rd person shooters but that is a different genre... and a whole other story for a different topic. Had they been smart and made it a different franchise like they did with Onimusha and DMC (both those games started development as RE titles), then its possible we would still be getting decent games from said, different franchise, while still possibly getting decent RE games that actually lived up to the name.