Gal Metal

Nintendo World ReportDaan Koopman

7.5/10

Gal Metal is a game with bold choices. The Joy-Con motion controls are interesting, and tightly fit the ideas of the title. In addition, the idea to create your own jams upon existing layers works surprisingly well. That being said, for most, this will be a one-and-done deal. You will play through it and be done after an hour or five. Beyond this, there isn't much to the package, though I do find myself replaying tracks a tiny bit. It really depends on what you're searching for, but as a music game, it certainly knows how to entertain.

Worth PlayingCody Medellin

7/10

Gal Metal is a rhythm game that turns the Joy-Con into drum sticks, where players will take hold of the Joy-Con and rock along with the music in order to repel would-be alien conquerors.

Gamer EscapeJosh McGrath

7/10

When talking about this game, Fujii told us, “I don’t expect some player sitting in the dark with pop and chips alone in front of the TV, swinging the Joycons, thinking, ‘Hey, I can’t do this,’ or thinking, ‘Hey, stupid game, it doesn’t detect my beat!’” While this is the exact way I played this game for review (minus the pop and chips), despite the technical issues, I still had a great time with it. There’s plenty here for rhythm enthusiasts, even if it doesn’t seem lik...

Pure NintendoKirstie Summers

7/10

For a game that is primarily about drumming, Gal Metal has a weird premise. You are a teenage boy who gets abducted by aliens and forced to share the body of a

DualShockersLou Contaldi

7/10

While there may be plenty of things I'd like to change in Gal Metal, the core of the game is an unmistakably fun time. With so many heavy hitters on the market in 2018, sometimes you need to just sit down, unwind, and out-play alien invaders with electrified versions of classical music.

Gal Metal is a unique experience that combines cute high school girls, galactic adventures, evil aliens and metal music together in one unmissable experience. The characters all stand alone in their own right and the story line is engaging with a few plot twists mixed in which has you wondering as to what will happen next. The game took about five hours to complete however mastering the rhythms and besting those difficult scores aided in my eagerness to replay levels factor and kept me coming back for more.

COGConnectedJames Paley

68/100

Gal Metal is mired in duality. The controls are either basic or brutally complex, depending on your preferences. The music is excellent yet repetitive. The story is charming yet asinine. In the same vein, I both enjoyed and abhorred my time with Gal Metal.

GameSpaceEd Orr

6.5/10

A group of high school students, an alien attack, and Metal. Gal Metal is a unique rhythm based game that mixes metal with a free form playstyle, from DMM Games. Nothing could quite have prepared us for this as we defend earth from certain doom.

GameSpewRichard Seagrave

6/10

Disappointing, that’s the best word to describe Gal Metal. It’s a game with great potential, but it just isn’t focused or accessible enough to capitalise on it. It works best as a music rhythm game, yet on that front it’s pitifully light on content; 13 songs just doesn’t really cut in in the long run. If the time spent creating its passable story and stat-building busywork had been spent further developing the core music rhythm gameplay and adding more songs, Gal Metal could have really been great. As it is though, it’s simply a curio that will bore and frustrate more than it entertains.

GamingTrendElisha Deogracias

50/100

Gal Metal is a weird rhythm game that unfortunately doesn’t live up to the hype that its premise promises. It’s worth checking out if you want some metal in your Switch diet, but other than that, you can probably skip it.