FIFA 20: Legacy Edition (Nintendo Switch). The worst games of 2019

The FIFA series has already accustomed us to the fact that the annual releases of next installments don't implement any great changes in the game. Fans don't mind it and are satisfied with the small adjustments and the guarantee of at least solid quality of each installment – after all, it's hard to spoil something that works if you don't tamper with it too much. Nevertheless, every new FIFA changes something, gradually but surely improving the popular formula.

This year's FIFA 20 edition for Nintendo Switch hasn't implemented any changes in comparison to its predecessor. Electronic Arts demanded players to pay a full price for a simple upgrade to FIFA 19, available to purchase for just a fraction of the price you have to pay for a copy of FIFA 20. Nintendo Switch version of FIFA 19, which is in many ways worse and behind the editions released for other platforms. Switch owners can forget about the already famous Volta Football mode, new features in career mode or gameplay improvements. The only thing you get is an update of names of football players.

FIFA 20: Legacy Edition could have been a nice gift, only if Electronic Arts had decided to release it as a free update to FIFA 19 on Switch platform. Even if all content would be released as a DLC at a price around $10, then it could be considered only as a special treat for the fanbase. But as a separate video game, priced like an AAA title, it turned out to be nothing more than a total waste of money. Well, money always talks.

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Monkey King: Hero is Back

Journey to the West, a classic Chinese novel written by Wu Cheng'en, has served as an inspiration for many well-known works and masterpieces of modern pop culture – such as Dragon Ball or Enslaved: Odyssey to the West. Also, it laid the groundwork for the 2015 Chinese animation Monkey King: Hero is Back. Four years later, the video game adaptation of the animated movie was released.

This title would most probably remain obscure to wider audience if it wasn't developed by the Hexa Drive studio, which has many successful achievements, such as, The Third Birthday, successful remasters of Okami and Zone of the Enders, DLC for Resident Evil VII or conversions of various games of Metal Gear Solid and Final Fantasy series. However, the experience gained from developing game ports and conversions was not sufficient to create a solid, standalone title.

Although the game made a good first impression, posing as a relatively solid slasher, it quickly exposed an extremely boring, repetitive level design and a rough-hewn combat system. All battles look pretty much the same – like a festival of button pressing. The poor dubbing of the western editions made it even more difficult to enjoy the plot, especially for those who haven't seen the movie, that is, almost every European and American.

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