Zoids Wild: Blast Unleashed (Nintendo Switch) An Honest Review 

I remember when I was a kid in the anime they used to ride inside the Zoids... Using them as mounts seems pretty dangerous..

The gamecube zoids game is still the goat, there were a few cool rare ones on Xbox 360 and ps2 aswell, zoids is so underrated

They really need to make a zoids open world rpg where we can make and customise our own zoids for mass battles

After watching some of the 1st episode, i can safely say i prefer the other versions of zoids like New Century and Chaotic century. Just don't like that the rider is visible and prefer the antags of those other 2. I remember fuzors being pretty cool, too.

It looks fun, but it's dumb that the pilot is visible. He's supposed to be secured in the cockpit.

If there was a way to petition for an online feature to this game, I'd do everything in my power to sign it three times. The 3/5 is a very fair rating, considering that the combo mechanic in this game is easy for almost anyone to pick up, but hard to retain interest to those familiar with fighting games like myself. The nostalgic feel and yearning for a zoids item to have as my own is what interested me in buying the game anyways, and I have no regrets...if only there was online... T^T

If they release a dlc that allows you to play as characters from the Chaotic or New Century that would be cool. Picked it up I like the game play really wish we in the west got something like this in the 2000's when Chaotic Century was out. Would love to play as Raven manning his Genosaur and the wild blast could have it transforming into geno breaker.

The joke with (self assembly) Zoids in the eighties was, the kid asks for it, can't assemble it, cries and asks an adult to do it. Now it's the other way round

For those asking about why they ride the Zoids like mounts in Zoids: Wild instead of inside a cockpit, it's because Zoids: Wild is more or less based on the canon made for the original models/figures that came out in Japan in the 80s which had said canon describe the Zoids as sentient bio-mechanical animals that when tamed were ridden like mounts and were used for various things including battles. Now Zoids: Wild expands on this OG Canon with the concept of Zoid Hunters basically you have Hunter teams like Team Freedom led by Zoids: Wild's main hero Arashi, and Team Supreme led by Quade/Bacon who act like game-wardens and travel around the world with their Zoid partners protecting innocent settlements from attacking Wild Zoids, and Wild Zoids from poachers who see Zoids as nothing more then weapons, and tools along with having the belief that Zoids like any wild animal deserve their respect, along with the idea of you leave them alone they'll leave you alone, on the flipside you poacher groups like Emperor Gigaboss/Gallagher and his Dark/Death Metal Empire who believe Zoids are nothing more then tools, and weapons with no rights and go around capturing wild Zoids and then use various inhumane methods to completely strip them of their free will and turn them into emotionless weaponized mechs.

I loved zoids as a kid! Saw it on toonami back in the day

i fell in love with the Gamecube Game it was fun you could go and roam around this new game looks like a Budokai tenkaichi 3 mod

When I first heard about this game i was hoping it was gonna button a top down action story game where u went thru the stages and fought random bad guys then fought each bad guy at the end almost like ur going thru the actual series . But I'm happy to see it turned out ok.

This actually looks fun!

Very interesting looking game. It isn't for me, but it is cool to see the decent job the developer did.

I’m an old millennial you don’t know how much I love zoids

Awesome review, as always. I was waiting for the "this is a port of a phone game" due to the visuals and huge menu buttons near the beginning of the video. Was surprised not to see it looks like a fun game but dang that price tag seems high to me. It might be because I have never heard of the franchise before, or because I dont play fighters often, but I would have expected its price to bi in the $20 zone. Gonna have to make a hard pass on this due to price alone. That said, your review did make me consider trying the game out if it were not so expensive.

I briefly played one of the GBA games and it felt like a watered down front mission with minor rpg elements. That could have been great. This, just looks like the shonen fighters which have never been good. I also recall the zoids being bigger with the pilots being inside. Little kids riding robot dinosaurs doesnt seem as cool.

I used to build zoids as a kid and build them and gundams now as an adult. Never played a game of it tho

I believe certain games are meant for certain ages. I notice a lot of us Adults don’t care for this game however my 7 yr old son loves it. And I’m okay with that. 👍

i tried it once and felt combo locked by the computer playerlol. i like the review, you have a nice voice, articulation, and explanations. thank you

Man, I miss my Berserk Fury.

I had a Zoids game when I was younger and loved it. Got into some of the animes a little bit after that. So when I heard the Switch was getting a Zoids game I was super excited, but this game lacks the most important thing to me- multiplayer. I'm long distance with my boyfriend right now and would want to play this with him, but since I can't, I'm not getting it. But even more than that is that the pilots are outside of the zoids... fucking why. Honestly this bothers me even more- it makes no sense and I'm sure it was harder to animate them than to just fucking not? Disappointing

On a separate topic, I'm glad this game is a good game and not some dog**** shovelware garbage meant to keep a dying brand alive.

I was a babe into zoids it was a big part of my younger childhood... i thought they just canceled out, but originally seeing this few years back makes me wonder how they went from full mechs and literal wars to these strange half mechs where the pilots are exposed on top of the now way smaller zoids fighting what seems like lil gang wars... what happened? The original zoids in all aspects were way cooler like Gundams and should have never been tempered with.

I wish they would do an open world RPG around Chaotic Century

Great review and love your accent. 🐢

Zoids doesn't get enough love I guess cause it has always been sold to kids Unlike Gundam which tries to sell to all age groups and doesn't go out of production Zoids did.

God, such a mega underrated game, it didn't get the love it deserved! Sure, far from perfect, I can agree it should've added more gameplay modes and online play. Still, it looked beautiful, it had amazing gameplay, it deserves more than to be completely forgotten!

I wasn't aware of the new zoids anime so I was hoping it would be more of a love letter to zoid fans instead of it being shovelware. While I'm happy this review makes it seem this is a step up from shovelware. It seems original zoid fans are not demographic but instead they are trying to get new fans instead :/

This kind of reminds me of zoids battle legends on the GameCube, good times!

I watched Zoids Chaotic Century and Zoids New Century Zero in my high school years and that's saying a lot considering that I'm 36 atm.

I think it's a bit too expensive I don't know the Zoids franchise but it seems really cool I mean pre Historic robots fighting each other is awesome but I think it needed a few upgrades to make it worth that price

Finally a decent looking Zoids game. I'll be picking this up even though I'm not a fan of the childishness of it. Hope we get a game set in the more gritty anime of the season that came out in 2000s. Also just hope for more zoids games in general.

Personally i loved the game, i am a huge Zoids fans been following the series since its resurgence in the early 2000s 2004/5 but i knew about them since the 90s, you're in england, search Zoids2 and the original Zoids line from the 80s those came out in Europe, i bought a bunch back in the day here in Portugal. Heres the thing, the concept behind ridable Zoids is not new, in fact that exists since the beginning. When Zoids first evolved on Zi, before they were turned into giant war machines they were used in labor like farm animals or kept as pets that came after, when the zoidian tribes began clashing with each other and a colony ship from earth the Globally 3 crashed landed on Zi. So this concept although strange to some is actually pretty neat because it gave Zoids personalities. To a lot of people only Zoids like the Liger Zero displayed personalities and had a mind of its own the truth is that every zoid was like that except some were more submissive than others. As for the game i got it recently and i really enjoy it. Its simple but the animation really captures their gracefulness and attitude,i wish they wouldn't slide on the ground when running and turning that's really the only thing i dont really feel with it. The previous Zoida title these guys developed was Full Meta Crash i believe and that was totally different i suggest you take a lot at that one to see where this one comes from.

I really liked Zoids when I was a youngster

I have about 300 hours in my copy of Zoids Battle Legends, was kinda hoping for more of that.

I bought this game on sale right now and I like it hopefully they add more characters

I can't believe I am seeing people complaining about this game being $40 when a switch title is usually $60. People are just so damn cheap. Look, if you want to try it, buy it and support the franchise. $40 is not that much in comparison to a normal switch game price

I'm more of a fan of the seasons where they pilot the zoids instead of riding them. But this was my childhood for sure

Great review

25 seems like an accurate and fair price. Probably not 40 though. This game looks cool and I am a fan of Zoids in general from when I was a kid. I appreciate you taking the time to honestly review this. If it ever drops to 25 bucks, I'll be willing to give it a shot.

I can’t believe they made a game of this I fucking loved this show as a kid I had many of the toys as a kid they were my fav and I used to draw them because they looked so cool 💚💚💚

Oh and before you build u can find a beat down one use it collect parts for it as you gain money from battles and doing missions and odd jobs buy parts and can buy blueprints of already known zoids to build u also can just buy one already built I would build my own unique zoids you can have 100 zoids but you have to buy land to build house and next it a building you build and have a room that is dark turn on the light your room where zoid goes in it. Building gets taller more zoids more floors customize building how u like it look in and out. The house is yours if want make your own guild the house gets bigger till more people u get and so make sure it doesn't lagged or crash yes cause you are leaders your building get huge your design members have their own room make it theirs and they buy land not to close to yours for their zoids. Now any zoids you own you can take parts from them n help build your own and fix others or sell parts or after build your unique zoids sell them if you want

I want them come out with zoids open world make your character and you find pieces to build your own zoid any way you want make your look like others or have your own one of a kind cause you made it no one online would have it cause you make it

This looks surprisingly good

You do one player or you can play online people running everywhere you get lot of city's small villages and country's if you got flying zoids fly everywhere land you build or buy your own boat I got tons of ideas for this and lot of games

Seeing the "pilots" riding on top seems so goofy. Why didnt they keep the cockpits like normal zoids?

I feel like the price is going to hold this one back. Looks like a fun romp but not at this price for me at least

I'll probably bust out my wallet and buy this game for the kiddos just because I like zoids in general. So much nostalgia from back in the day. Plus busting out the gamecube and even if I were to pop in zoids battle legends it's just not to their Fortnite standards

OK Zoids has definitely changed since I was a teenager. I don't remember them riding ON the Zoids, I always thought they rode inside them like mechs. Also the character designs...they're just so bad. Not to my taste at all.

a poor attempt to re launch zoids, a Nintendo switch remaster of legacy and saga is the way to reboot this epic franchise

I’m sorry best thing that separate zoids game is customize weapons on zoids that’s what made games good

Zoids Wild: Blast Unleashed - Nintendo Switch

I personally prefer the zoids franchise with the cockpits so the pilots won't get hit by any attacks

I wish they piloting zoid instead of riding it

I'm old. It's official. I was 10 when Zoids first came out in Europe and the U.S. (Trivia: Zoids were Japanese, but they came out in Europe and the U.S. first, in 1982, and then in Japan in 1983. They were the follow-up to a Japan and Spain only product called Mechabonica, which didn't do well, and was cancelled quickly, but sneakily, TOMY used repackaged Mechabonica toys as the first wave Zoid release, then created new toys for wave two). I loved building them, and loved that they were powered toys, though I preferred the clockwork ones to the battery-powered ones. Is Spiderzoid in this game? I ask, as SPideroid was my favourite of the original Zoids AND it was used in "Zoids: The Battle Begins", the first Zoids computer game, which I had on my Commodore 64 back in 1986!

I got mixed up with thinking this was that weird bakugan game announced 💀 this seems interesting tho

I haven’t been around zoids since the original anime and I absolutely HATE that they’re riding zoids like mounts now...

I honestly didn't know this game came out in North America and it was on sale. I guess I'll wait again, too determine a purchase

They downgraded it quite a bit with the stupid re-names of the Zoids and removing Wild Blue insert song for Wild Blast

please just give me a switch port of zoids battle legends with online multiplayer

I paint, and after seeing Gigaboss I want to paint him.

What if we try to compare it to jump Force?

Why are the pilots riding on the back rather than in cockpit?? Looks so stupid.

i really dont like what zoids has become. zoids battle legends and zoids legacy are still the best video game versions of the old anime.

This is a fun game, yes the whole having the person riding on top of a zoid is distracting and dumb, it still a fun game I mean at least we got a zoids game in the current year. However, I still don't understand why in today's world of advanced hardware we still don't have a Zoids game that has the pilot in the cockpit, and see from the cockpit's point of view?

I liked Zoids back you were in the cockpits and actually destroyed other pilots. Or that tournament fighter one. This is just a dumbed down insult to what was one of my favorite series... *buys Space Force instead.*

Remothered may be shovelware... or worse

The most stupid zoids adaptation ever

Denk

I'm glad the game doesn't have online multiplayer. Too much out there.