By and large, it's still
smoother overall
than the
original Wii U
version, but the situation becomes muddier when Switch runs in portable mode - at this point, the drops in performance are far more noticeable and while hardly game - breaking, we would have preferred less of an adherence to matching docked visual quality and more of a focus on making the game run as smoothly as possible.
Like the other games in CHAMProgramming's series of arcade remakes, it is remarkable for closely emulating the
original, the
smooth gameplay and two game modes, the
original «Classic» and the enhanced «Champ» mode.The «Classic» mode plays and feels like the arcade machine, with very similar graphics, sound and gameplay: You play a spaceship, moving horizontally at the bottom of the screen, and shooting up at a bunch of Space Invaders - like aliens, which attack you in waves becoming harder and harder with the game.The «Champ» mode is an upgraded
version of the classic game with new enemy types — requiring more
than one hit to destroy, or equipped with a cloaking device making them nearly invisible — and a variety of power - ups for the player, with create an entertaining variant of the
original game.Finally, the game features a variety of options — one or two player modes, three difficulty settings, adjustable game speed, input by keyboard, mouse or joystick (Champ even released a «Champ cable» that allowed you to play the game with digital joysticks), and a high score table to round it all off.