PlayStation 4 : Nova-111 (Limited Run #46) VideoGames

PlayStation 4 : Nova-111 (Limited Run #46) VideoGames

Melding and combining genres is a bit of science. Luckily, in Funktronic Labs’ Nova-111 the player has a compatriot named Dr. Science. The game combines a top down dungeon crawler with a puzzler, mixing moments of real-time and turn-based gameplay in an interesting degree. These mechanics rarely get a chance to wear out their welcome either as the game happens to have a short completion time, but it could take a while to find every pesky secret. If Nova-111 had more than bite-sized portions, there would be something great here. As it stands, the short run time means it will breeze by quickly, which works out well on the go with this Switch port.

In Nova-111, the player controls an orange vessel that’s stranded after a scientific experiment has gone wrong. The rest of the team has been pushed all over the space-time continuum across various planets, and the player is tasked with finding out what went wrong and collecting as many scientists as they can. Well, collecting a few of the members, as outside of Dr. Science they all just blend into the background after a line or two when they are saved, and picking them up affects a high score that doesn’t change anything of importance. The high score itself is determined by how fast the level is completed, how many turns taken, how many secrets were found, and how many scientists were saved. Dr. Science himself has a bit more to say, but his dialogue is limited mostly to tutorial dialogue or pun-filled comedy that induces eye-rolls as the player propels forward.

NOVA-111 is a sci-fi themed turn-based adventure game with a real-time action twist. Explore alien worlds and combat fiendish alien creatures in your quest to restore the flow of time, all in the name of SCIENCE!

Pilot your trusty vessel through mysterious and foreign planets in this original sci-fi adventure. Your mission: fix space-time and search out the scientists lost in the aftermath of the Universe's greatest experiment. Aided only by your trusty (if somewhat sandwich-obsessed) guide, you must repair the temporal vortex!

Navigate mind-warping puzzles and engage in strategic battles with bizarre astrobiological creatures in a twisted environment where the turn-based world and the real-time world collide.

As you progress through three distinct worlds, you'll need to protect yourself by collecting new abilities and upgrade modules for your ship, but remember, your greatest weapon is SCIENCE itself!

EB