As a side note, the game does have both online and local co-op – I didn’t test this feature though, instead playing the entire game in single player. I played both handheld and docked, but the majority was in handheld as that is how I prefer to play my Nintendo Switch. Nobody Saves the World had no performance issues to report on Nintendo Switch during my 20+ hours through the game’s campaign. This further builds on the ability of swapping forms depending on the need at the moment. Another might be one where enemies have shields and first need to be broken with a certain type of attack before they can sustain damage. For example, some dungeons, especially story-related ones, will not let your complete form quests within.

They are procedurally generated each time you enter them, but some have a set of rules or buffs to them. The overworld is handcrafted and will show you NPCs, objectives, merchants, and dungeons – the latter is where you will be spending most of your time, though. When you enter an area or dungeon you will see its level displayed on screen along with any buffs or rules in place. The game has a fast travel system, so fast travel back and forth between areas of the map is a breeze once you have unlocked those locations. For example, water areas will require you to use a form that can swim or fly. You traverse the open world with the ability to go anywhere you want assuming you have the form that can handle the terrain and enemies of that area. You will find mana upgrades sprinkled all around the over world and your health increases as you level up and, of course, you replenish your health by eating food that enemy’s drop. Mana can regenerate over time, or you can enable a passive ability to increase the rate at which it recharges. Some of your active abilities use mana, which is denoted by the blue bar at the top of the screen below your health bar. One feature I felt was lacking is the ability to save loadouts or builds you could easily swap between – having one or two loadout slots per form would have been a nice addition. When you first unlock a new form, the form-specific ones are usually about your new main ability but over time, you will be required to complete quests for this form by mixing and matching both abilities and passive perks. You will complete quests by doing tasks for NPCs, completing story objectives, and doing repeatable quests, such as picking up so many health items or killing so many baddies, as well as form-specific ones. This game has tons of quests to complete in order to level up both your overall character as well as a particular form. You will find yourself swapping abilities, both active and passive, depending on the current quest you are trying to complete. With your new ability, you transform into a rat and look to escape the museum and fight off the calamity, gaining many new forms along your adventure. Nobody’s malleable physical forms lends himself to being a shapeshifter, who can transform into various forms.

That’s right, Randy was too busy to notice you still had possession of the wand before trapping you, so you pick up the wand and learn about your first form.

The basement of Nostramagus serves as the game’s tutorial dungeon and you learn about the wand. Randy drops you into a cell in the basement beneath a trap door and sets out to fight off the monsters that have invaded the kingdom as he looks for Nostramagus. After some dialogue plays out, we learn that this is a crime scene. Meanwhile, Nobody discovers a wand with a note from Nostramagus telling Randy he is in trouble and to come find him. Randy is a bit distraught, as Nostramagus has gone missing and he wants to set out to avenge him. Nobody then sets out from his shack and makes his way over to Nostramagus’s Museum, where you meet Randy the Rad. He awakens to discover that a Calamity has awoken as well. Nobody, the game’s hero, wakes up in a little shack with no recollection of who he is, or even where his clothes went.

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