I didn't like them to begin with, but the more time I spend with them, the more I do.ĭribbling with the sticks is easier and more precise, and does away with a finger blocking your view and ending up at weird angles as you try to weave players into the box. But more importantly, the Switch version comes with optional thumbstick and button controls. There are other welcome additions, too - it being on a bigger screen than my phone, to say the least. Even with the hours of mobile experience thrown in, I'm far from understanding everything.
I've barely upgraded my stadium and my facilities, and I'm struggling against higher-tiered opponents. I'm still, after a dozen hours on the Switch version, only one proper season and a promotion in. This isn't crash-bang-wallop like New Star Soccer - New Star Manager takes time. It allows New Star Manager to settle at a slower pace which suits the deeper game underneath. You just have to work out how best to use them. It means, on Switch, you have the tools to solve your managerial puzzle, and you aren't missing what you know is in the shop. On Switch, you earn a pack of cards whenever you level up, whereas you earn diddly-squat for levelling on mobile. Some pictures from my time with New Star Manager on Switch. But the upfront fee means the in-game shop has been ripped out, and it changes much. Then along came the Nintendo Switch version, earlier this month - the £15 Nintendo Switch version! Heck of a mark-up from a free mobile game. It, along with frustration at fiddly controls and unpredictable gameplay, turned me away. The card packs aren't expensive - 99p for an energy-boosting pack, £1.99 for some better players and so on, and I bought a couple (because I wanted my League Two team to be overpowered) - but the constant presence of the shop ate away at me. Naturally, that's when the game prompts you into the shop.
And those you earn naturally, through playing, come too slowly and frugally. They are your players, your training, your team-talk, your energy drinks - cards are everywhere. The cards in New Star Manager, you see, represent almost everything. What really irked me was a constant feeling I was being pushed towards an in-app card store. The numbers are smaller - ~500,000 downloads on Google Play - and the buzz less. But New Star Manager didn't catch on in the same way. It put you in control of the whole team rather than an individual, as well as everything surrounding it: stadium, facilities, training, youth - yours to develop and tinker with, right down to ticket prices and interpersonal relationships. New Star Manager was bigger in every way.
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