Vroom in the Night Sky is considered by many to be the worst game on the Nintendo Switch, let alone one of the worst games ever. Developed by Poisoft, a studio that clearly doesn’t speak English, Vroom in the Night Sky was once a Wii U exclusive, but was able to crawl it’s way out of the bargain bin console and onto your Nintendo Switch. I want you to let that sink in. Trash like Vroom in the Night Sky was able to survive the Wii U and yet Wonderful 101 remains trapped on there. This was the game that was considered better than Vroom in the Night Sky. May god forgive us all.



So from the badly butchered story that was filled with a lot of awkward grammar, what I can piece together is that you play as a Magical Girl named Luna who has to collect Stardust in the sky. I will say, I do like some of the visuals. Has that sort of children’s book charm that I love in games. But all the charm dwindles when you get into the game itself. Still heavy on bad English text, we start up the tutorial of the game. Well, the controls work as you would expect, if a bit of weight to them. It’s pretty much like a typical air flying game, like Crimson Skies or something. But the world is very much empty, and everything aside from your character looks polygonal like hell, like a PS1 game. And you are tasked with flying toward goal posts and collecting diamonds. I guess those are the Stardusts. Oh, and I hope you like vibrating controls, because this game vibrates the controller like crazy. I will say, if you are a woman on a lonely night, this is the perfect game for you (Sorry, not sorry). Once I got to the second level, I realized that this was all the game was. Going through rings, collect stardust, vibrate your controller. That said, my OCD kicked in hard and I wanted to collect all the Stardust in the area. And the broken English really made me laugh, like how the characters just stare at each other and the fairy goes, “They’re best friends” or how the fairy goes “Say smoething”. And no, I didn’t make a typo. He says smoething!
By the time I got to the third level, I think I got the idea of the game. I can see why people wouldn’t like this game. It is a game that gets really old really quick. You can use the Stardust to buy faster bikes, but at the end of the day, the gameplay is the same. Occasionally a random Magical Girl will come, but what they do, I don’t know. Do you gotta beat them in a race, are they characters you can unlock, I don’t know. That said, I don’t know if the bad English was making me laugh or it’s because I played so much worse so far, but Vroom in the Night Sky has potential. I was expecting to hate everything about this game. Is it a good game. Oh, hell no. It’s still pretty bad. But there is something here. It has a neat design choice and neat little ideas for a cute magical girl game. It just needed more time to be…. Good. That said, I’ve definitely played worse and I am definitely going to play worse. So I this will probably be the highlight of the games I play. It’s all downihll from here.