Have you ever performed a recreation and requested your self why? Why does this exist? Why did somebody make a recreation on Switch that doesn’t work? Why am I so indignant taking part in a recreation about fixing and constructing bikes? These questions, plus so many extra, have been the one issues working by my thoughts “taking part in” Motorcycle Mechanic Simulator 2021. To be fully truthful, I’m not a bike individual, nor am I actually into “sensible” simulations of varied occupations. However I can respect these video games’ existence as a result of they really, , work. Motorcycle Mechanic Simulator 2021 doesn’t work on Switch and is one thing it’s best to keep away from. Seriously, I’ve by no means been so equally indignant and bored concurrently this title managed to attain.
The entire level of Motorcycle Mechanic Simulator 2021 is that you just run a bike restore store. This simulator tries to current the whole recreation as a “sensible” simulation, proper right down to the complicated elements and items that make bikes run. I say sensible in quotes as a result of, whereas it’s introduced as a sensible simulation, the insanely poor controls make it almost inconceivable to attain nearly something. Motorcycle Mechanic Simulator 2021 initially was launched on PC, the place a mouse and keyboard scheme little question helps with controlling issues. On Switch, this didn’t transition properly in any respect. Simple actions like transferring the digital camera or transferring the article you’re controlling (as an illustration, to select up a wrench and produce it in the direction of a nut or bolt) strikes insanely slowly. It additionally doesn’t assist that each motion feels inaccurate; you at all times really feel just like the controls are combating you.
Motorcycle Mechanic Simulator 2021 is additional a damaged mess by the opposite gameplay elements . It takes an INSANE period of time to load. In my time with the sport, it was regular to have 2-3 minute loading occasions simply to get into a really primary motorbike restore. It then takes a very long time to return to the primary menu. Maybe this could possibly be excused in case you loaded right into a richly detailed, hyper-realistic storage and super-detailed motorbike. None of this stuff are discovered right here. You load right into a storage that appears effective at its finest, one thing that appears nearer to an ok-quality cell recreation. The identical could possibly be mentioned in regards to the bikes you’re employed on. Yet, the truth that it’s important to wait such a crazyamount of time to easily load right into a recreation, and it seems to be the best way it does, simply provides a degree of disappointment to the entire expertise.
There’s additionally the problem of clipping if you take a look at the bikes outdoors of the storage. Besides working extremely poorly, the second the motorbike will get outdoors the storage leads to you being partially inside the bottom. This subject by no means goes away and really will get worse the extra you experience the motorbike. In one occasion, I rode a bike for about 5 seconds earlier than getting glitched into the bottom after which the sport proceeded to crash. To be truthful, that was the one occasion when making an attempt to experience the bikes the place it fully crashed. Unfortunately, the sport crashed a lot of different occasions throughout my evaluation, at fully random and unrelated occasions. One time it crashed when it reached the primary menu display. It seems like the entire package deal was by no means actually optimized.
When Motorcycle Mechanic Simulator 2021 isn’t combating you on controls and crashes, there’s a semi-relaxing recreation in there, albeit a really slow-moving one. While the controls transfer every thing very slowly, if you do get elements in the correct spot there’s a soothing tempo/tone current.
Is there way more to say about Motorcycle Mechanic Simulator 2021 that’s constructive? No, probably not. While there’s a soothing tone to placing bikes collectively and I’m positive somebody completely obsessive about bikes and motorbike repairs could possibly be intrigued by the title, Motorcycle Mechanic Simulator 2021 is such a damaged, poorly optimized expertise to seek out a lot enjoyable in. I spent most of my time extremely indignant on the controls that always fought me and the ridiculous loading occasions to get into these controls. There are a number of actually nice experiences to play on Nintendo Switch however Motorcycle Mechanic Simulator 2021 isn’t certainly one of them.
