Cricket Through the Ages: Nintendo Switch review

Developed by Free Lives, 24BIT Games
Published by Devolver Digital
Platform: Nintendo Switch

Sometimes dumb fun is just that - dumb fun.

And in Cricket Through The Ages' case, this clearly is the mantra for a game that doesn't stand up to long term scrutiny, nor does it really offer any extended life beyond a couple of drunken gaming sessions.

With just a couple of buttons to press in a sort of Rock'em, Sock'em Robots style arena, Cricket Through The Ages puts the game of cricket into a two player arena as a series of pixel-heavy characters face off against each other.

But in a stupendously silly start, the game sees you trying to fist fight a dinosaur, before the evolution of bowling sees you pick up rocks to hurl at each other in time. A series of mini confrontations that end with the best of 5 or the best of 10, before hurling out into space and other climates, the game isn't really interested in depth, no matter how well presented it is.

As it progresses, more levels unlock and the game opens up but never really evolves past its fighting each other mentality. 

Granted, with an over-the-top voiceover and a case of simply doing what it says on the tin, the game is okay, but outside of just a couple of solo sessions and a few with mates, its shelf life is perhaps facing as much extinction as the dinosaurs it begins with.