Nintendo Switch User Reviews

There's not much to say here. Zombies Ate My Neighbors is a great game. Ghoul Patrol is just okay. The ports are good, but missing a few basic options that a lot of other ports have. If you grew up with these games, or like this arcade style of games, you'll probably enjoy this collection. However, if you don't like old school arcade games or don't like particularly difficult games, this may not be the collection for you.

Original ZAMN is a solid 8/10 for me. The 4/10 here is because achievements don't save, controls can't be rebound (and the new defaults are awful and confusing), the original title screen goodies didn't make it into this version, and no online multiplayer. Honestly worse than the original SNES release, and that's just really pathetic. They couldn't even bother to make achievements save OR announce when you get them, which would have at least added some extra life into the game. You're better off running this game on an emulator where you can get achievements and online multiplayer with very little effort. Buy it if you're a fan and just want it on the Switch I guess. Otherwise, just emulate it, you'll have a better experience.

The original games themselves are great. Zombies Ate My Neighbors is a 8/10, Ghoul Patrol is a 7/10, but this release of the game is pretty weak. I don’t mind not having simplistic bonus features, but not being able to remap the controls is a huge hit, especially since the control scheme they used feels like it was thought out at all - and it’s not what the original control layout was as well. They made no changes to the games themselves except the controls, makes no sense. I find myself dying simply because the controls go against formats that I have used throughout any other game in my life. Would have been nice if it had some quality of life options and improvements as well, because otherwise, they’re just the original game. The source games are great, this release is alright.