In an apartment
building, however? Umm, sorry neighbours...
ADD usually
stands for attention deficit disorder, and if you’re afflicted then
you won’t fare well at this particular ADD. It’s a
ferociously challenging arcade melange of Asteroids and
Space Duel, with sniffs of Super Sprint thrown in
(really).
But back to that screaming. Why? Well, we were
playing solo against the CPU. Take our advice and don’t do it. When
your Switch basically assails you with the intensity of a Terminator
it doesn’t make for fun on any level, especially as the controls can
be a teensy-weensy bit finicky. Just when you get a poofteenth of
thrusty confidence, FWAM! You’re space toasty fragmentational
bitty-bits.
With that noted, we dragged some friends in to
help us test out the local multiplayer aspect with non-Terminator
types. They may not have had as cool leathers or accents, but they
made for infinitely more reasonable cannon fodd- erm, opponents.
So, up to six players can play at once, making for craziness –
and that’s just trying to wedge everybody in near the couch.
Controller options vary, from Pro Controller to Joy-Cons to four
people huddling around the Switch going all touchy-feely. If you
value the life of your Switch then we don’t recommend that latter
option.
No matter which mode you
opt for, it’s basically a survival of the fittest deal, as you pit
your pointy-pointy spaceship against the pointy-pointy spaceships of
others in a pew-pew to the death. One mode even leaves your poor
pilot floating in space after having their ship blammyised, counting
the seconds for an eventual ship reequip.
Armed with a
bleeptastic chippy soundtrack and a tonne of arcade slickness,
ADD is some of the best brief fun that you’ll have this side of
Ritolin – assuming you’ve friends to play with.
