5 reviews
Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?!
Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! is a wacky simulation game where you manage your very own weapon shop and expand its business across an incredible potato world. Use your potato smiths to forge weapons and sell them to questing heroes. You will meet more than 70 potato heroes, forge more than 200 weapons, expand your business into 20 wacky areas, ma...
Details
- Released
- July 13, 2015
- Developer
- Daylight Studios
- Genres
- Role-playing (RPG) · Simulator · Strategy · Indie
- Publisher
- Daylight Studios, Rising Star Games
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Sometimes there is a craftsman so renowned that heroes come from all over the world in hopes of purchasing a legendary weapon. Other times they are a simple country potato easily manipulated into something 99.9% shady. Read all about out in our Holy Potatoes A Weapon Shop PS4 review.
Although it's been done before, running your own RPG shop is such a clever premise for a game. Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! puts you in the jacket of a wannabe shopkeeper. Do you have the tots to run a successful business?
Thankfully though, Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?!’s charm and sense of humour helps give the game more longevity than its gameplay loop alone. Its witty dialogue and groan-worthy character puns will keep you chortling along even after you’ve got a little bored of going through the same menus. It might not keep you hooked for hours at a time, but it’s the ideal game to dip into for short bursts – and the Nintendo Switch offers the perfect platform for that.
If you are looking for a simulation game to spend some time with on the Switch, Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! may do the trick. Just be warned: it’s painfully average, not bringing anything new to this genre, and super slow. I feel like this genre is better suited for PCs or even tablets rather than portable gaming systems because it feels too cluttered for the Switch’s screen and not comfortable on any television. The core gameplay definitely works how you’d expect and you’ll find plenty of tasks to accomplish. Maybe this would be a good one to jump in and out of while making some po…