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Thats not entirely a glowing recommendation, since the Transformers property has been driven into the dirt thanks to those movies and games from publishers like Activision, so the bar has been set really low, but Battlegrounds is a spot-on interpretation of the properties strengths.

XCOM and its ilk have traditionally been the hardcore alternative to Fire Emblem; the deeply challenging, intense tactical action that really makes you work hard to understand all of its nuances in order to succeed.

These are games that are traditionally unforgiving on errors, rely on complex interactions between individual character skills and party-based tactics to deliver strategy, and provide an immense sense of reward to those that master them.

Different units differ from one another mildly and have unique special attacks, but each are firmly linear in approach.

Youll have mastered the tactical utility of a unit within a level of having it join the party, and from that point, their use in battle becomes clear with each new level.

Certainly if you up the difficulty level the game will be more willing to punish you, but that simply turns each battle into a puzzle rather than an example of tactical depth.

By that I mean theres one path and solution to a level and if you stray from it youll fail the level.

Ironically the lower difficulty setting is the more creatively engaging from a strategic point of view, but without the challenge, its not going to test the brain matter.

Kids will love it though because its so bright and colourful, and older people will love it because its pure fan service for the series.

The first Transformer you control is Bumble Bee (of course it is), and that sets the tone up for the rest of the game.

Its got the same hamfisted dialogue of the Transformers of yore, and while it is, indeed, very hamfisted, its also but of the charming aesthetics of the cartoon.

Where a typical XCOM clone focuses on cautious, deliberate movements and heavy use of cover, as well as the ability to read and respond to enemy movements, in Battlegrounds youre encouraged to be mobile, with your characters able to move up to three times in a turn, or once or twice and still deliver an attack.

Taking a shot and zipping by cover, or tempting the enemy into close range so you can duck out and deliver an attack with potency makes sure that things are always moving in every turn.

With the levels built around this mobility, its clever design that both matches with the series ethos of characters that can turn into vehicles (or dinosaurs), and prevents kids from becoming bored with something static.

Throw in the breezy presentation and highly accessible gameplay, and it makes this one of the more distinctive and thoughtful efforts to capitalise on what XCOM pioneered.

Transformers: Battlegrounds did the right thing in eschewing the Hollywood mature efforts and the games that tried to piggyback along with those to give us a true Saturday morning cartoon aesthetic.

It was also right to go with a turn-based tactics game, rather than yet another action effort.

What this game does is add to the Transformers property and demonstrate that it can be more versatile than the folks in suits have been pushing for over quite some time now.

Its certainly not the XCOM clone for people that come to XCOM for the nuanced tactical strategy, but its a nice, light little game and, for someone like me who grew up loving Transformers, only to watch the series be driven into the ground in recent years, its nice to have something nostalgic to some very fond memories that I had as a kid.

Item Reviewed: Review: Transformers: Battlegrounds (Nintendo Switch).

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