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You’ll start out in a circular room that’s lacking in detail or cover, where a steady flow of zombies will be thrown at you coming from different directions. To start armed only with a pistol with limited ammo that aims like hot garbage and a knife that you’ll need to dispatch a bunch of pretty generic walking undead creeps, looking to pick up some dropped cash or ammo along the way. Once you clear a wave you’ll gain access to an upgrade room where you can spend your cash on ammo, a new weapon, or various traps… just be aware that getting most of it will be slow going and it will take some time to afford anything exciting. You’ll also have gained a skill point which you can use to assign yourself some perks, but be warned that many of these will require more than one point so again expect to wait if you want anything that sounds promising. Thrown back into the action you’ll find… you’re in the same non-descript room and being confronted with pretty well the same freaking zombies. Get used to this idea as that’s roughly all there is. Sure, you can build up some barriers or traps the lemming-like dumbass zombies will lumber into, eventually breaking them if you can’t keep killing them first. But just running around and trying to get some whacks in to speed them up on the way to dying isn’t terribly thrilling. Shooting them takes multiple shots, even if you manage to hit them in the head, and generally feels pretty ineffective. Upgraded weapons can kill more quickly but ammo is a premium item that carries some cost so you won’t want to just expend it for nothing, which means you can expect to awkwardly slash away with your knife and then try to roll around to safety quite a bit each wave to try to conserve your cash in the hopes of getting anything that’s better. Perhaps even though the premise and essence of play are paper thin at least if any of it was executed with any visible care or imagination it wouldn’t be so bad. A combo meter, some attack chains, a little flair, anything at all. Nope, just a bunch of non-descript and stupid zombies against you in the same boring room trying desperately to find a way to justify having wasted a minute of your life playing this. Do yourself a favor and skip it. Randomly move your cursor without looking to choose a game without even seeing what it is and the odds are you’ll be happier with the result. Blood Waves feels like someone bought some models and animations, slapped them together, added some menus, and called it a game… and there are simply far better ways to spend your time and money on Switch.
Justin Nation, Score:Avoid [3.0]