Review for DC Super Hero Girls: Teen Power. Game for Nintendo Switch, the video game was released on 04/06/2021
DC Super Hero: Girls Teen Power is a video game Nintendo Switch based on the homonymous TV series available on Netflix, which tells the adventures of teenage Batgirl, Zatanna, Lantenna Verde, Wonder Woman and Supergirl. The young teenagers of the Metropolis Hight School, after having won the hearts of viewers with a humorous style and various themes, try again this time with a tie-in that is not entirely successful.
DC Super Hero Girls Teen Power transports the player right from the start to the heart of the battle, in the Hob's Bay district a group of out of control robots are ready to blow up the entire city center but thanks to the intervention of the young Batgirl the situation is soon resolved.
After a short introductory video, the player finds himself in the role of the young heroine ready to eliminate a group of automatons, save three survivors from the roofs of the buildings and eliminate Giganta, in a few minutes we pass from an introductory video to a prologue that acts as a confused tutorial and not at all related to the opening scene. After this short tutorial the player learns that behind the attack on the Hob's Bay neighborhood there is a mysterious cyber criminal who has broken into Lex Luthor's security systems.
Beyond the uninspiring incipit, DC Super Hero Girls Teen Power for its duration of about six hours manages to keep the player's attention despite a game structure that is not at all brilliant.
During the six hours of the game the player will be able to use Batgirl, Supergirl, Wonder Woman, Catwoman, Harley Quinn and Star Saphhire, the six heroines will be unlocked in specific points of the adventure and their use is linked to specific moments of the storyline. In terms of gameplay, using Batgirl or Harley Quinn is the same: the difference is really non-existent. The only character that offers slight variety is Star Sapphire, who is sadly designated the shortest game section of the entire adventure.
Structurally, after completing the first chapter with Batgirl, it can be said with certainty that 90% of the game has been seen, as the remaining five hours of play are only one repeating the same mechanics. The development team with DC Super Hero Girls Teen Power has managed to insert collateral activities within the game structure that can vary the entire and tedious gaming experience, even if only slightly.
During the exploration phases - which are part of 70% of the entire adventure - the player can explore the town in search of collectibles or buy small cosmetic objects with the virtual currency, take photographs to publish or help some citizens in difficulty. Unfortunately, these outline elements have been inserted very roughly: the secondary missions have no specific weight within the game plot and recovering a lost object without obtaining a plus to the game plot is an end in itself. As well as the purchase of clothing, each costume does not make changes to the gameplay but only on an aesthetic level and the items available are very few. Small aspects that highlight how the developer wanted to insert mechanics only to increase the quantity of things to be done, but in essence we find ourselves with elements of little quality.
The game structure follows an all too predefined dynamic: two phases of exploration with one of the protagonists, helping a citizen and the intervention of the super heroine on duty to eliminate the handful of enemies in fights where only the pressing of the Y key is required. to the elimination of the bad guys on duty. The combat system is structured in a lazy way, the moveset is common for all six characters, each player has the same fighting style to differentiate Batgirl from Catwoman is the simple iconic move that, to be honest, is rarely used because the battles despite are multiple, can be solved by pressing a single button.
Despite the target to which the game is aimed, it was legitimate to expect a more stratified and less banal combat system especially given the final result: for the entire duration of the adventure the player will be called to always perform the same actions; fortunately the game plot, despite being banal, works and manages to involve the player for the short duration of the adventure.
Technically DC Super Hero Girls Teen Power doesn't scream a miracle by being dated for the Nintendo console, the title alternates convincing polygonal models of the main characters with the raw ones of the enemies and game environments. The audio sector is satisfactory: catchy music that blends well with the game settings; the dubbing in English is truly exceptional as well as the perfect Spanish text localization.
DC Super Hero Girls Teen Power is a tie-in not entirely successful, it fails to repeat the success of the homonymous TV series that instead, we recommend you to watch. The production of WBEI offers interesting ideas sin that is penalized by a tedious and repetitive game structure to the point of unbelievable, it fails to bring out the charisma of the six protagonists, highlighting how the development of this tie-in is done in a superficial way. DC Super Hero Girls Teen Power is recommended for all lovers of the TV series and those who are looking for a frivolous and unpretentious adventure able to overlook the innumerable defects of the game.
► DC Super Hero Girls: Teen Power is a scrolling fighting game published by Nintendo for Nintendo Switch, the video game was released on 04/06/2021
