Morphies Law is returning to Switch with a new update that also sees the game release on Steam, too.
Morphies Law originally released on the Nintendo Switch last summer and was met with, shall we say, “lackluster” reviews. It’s a third-person shooter in the same vein as Splatoon, but with a neat gimmick: as you shoot your opponents, you grow, and they shrink.
Why do you grow while simultaneously causing enemies to shrink? The physics are unclear. However, as a game mechanic, Morphies Law has legs. As players do well and shoot more opponents, they themselves become easier targets for everyone else to hit. Meanwhile, players that are suffering get the added boost of becoming harder to hit.
Unfortunately for Morphies Law, the game was poorly executed at last year’s launch. It was full of bugs, technical issues with online multiplayer, and a general lack of content.
That might have meant the death of a game a few years ago, but this is 2019. Now, all a developer has to do is take their game back to the drawing board and re-release it a year later with the bugs fixed and a whole bunch of added content.
So, now we’ve got Morphies Law: Remorphed. It’s the same game but without those pesky bugs and with a bunch of new things like customizable Morphies (which are the growing/shrinking Day of the Dead-themed robots you play as), more maps, and build-your-own, unlockable guns.
If you didn't catch Morphies Law the first time around, each match pits two teams of Morphies against one another in a Mexican-themed battle to the death. Maps are filled with interesting things like oil slicks, rocket fuel, giant fans, and crumbling walls. Best of all, each component of your festive robot expands individually, so you’ll look pretty ridiculous on your way to victory.
Morphies Law: Remorphed arrives on the Nintendo Switch July 30th and will even come with a friend: a PC release on Steam. There will also be full crossplay between the two platforms, so players will be able to duke it out no matter what hardware they game on.