Studio recently Two points introduced a new edition of its management video games, in this case a university campus where you manage the craziest races, Two point campus.

This time we decided to test the pro version of the game switch which allows you to play this game in a more casual way.

Story and gameplay

The story is the same as Two Point Hospital. In the story mode, we will have to transfer different universities and we will do it by achieving the objectives. If we get a star, the level is already considered complete and more will be unlocked on the map. We’ll unlock a new title at the start with each university, so everyone will have their own situation or problem to solve. Some of the titles that can be studied are: chivalry, sorcery, joke accounting…

Before starting a new course they ask you to have a number of requirements, you can start it without them, but students will complain and leave the course when they reach the limit, which will reduce your income and leave you at a loss. There is no “lost game” situation, in fact you can lose money indefinitely, but if you stay in the red, you will no longer be able to hire or upgrade the campus, so there is no point in continuing to play.

Anyone who has ever played a management game of this style knows that there are a number of things that you need to have ready before you start, in this case it would be the teacher, the administrator, the janitor, the classroom, the bathroom and the residence.

There are three metrics we will need to track to keep our campus afloat, money, grades, and student morale. As in all these types of games, it is important to control our spending, but we also need to make sure that they do not stop and leave, or that they do not leave due to boredom.

In the first point, we have to check that we do not negotiate more than what we earn. In addition to the registration fees, which are finally entered at the beginning of the course, we can increase our monthly income by selling food or drinks or organizing events.

Having a leisure room is important for the satisfaction of students, we can organize events in different rooms, such as a leisure room, student association or classrooms, which will greatly improve their mood.

We will improve grades with private lessons. When we go to the student management menu, we can see each student’s grades and mood, and the only action we can take on them is to send them to private classes to improve their grades. For private lessons, we will need a private classroom and a teacher of the subject. Having multiple classrooms and multiple teachers is ideal, especially when we have many students with poor grades.

The course runs from August to July and after it ends they will show us the key data of the course, income achieved, approved, average grade… once the course is over we can continue to play and prepare for next year, but time won’t be able to run until we start the course . At no point can we advance or pause the game, which is sometimes a bit boring, especially when we need to get paid to continue playing or when we need to build to generate more income.

In addition to managing money, we also need to control glory the points that the game will give us when we achieve goals with which we can unlock different items. These points are earned by completing tasks or earning badges. But there is also a third point system, the degree system, with which we can improve the degrees we are working with, increase the number of students per course, or add new degrees to the campus, for example.

Graphics and OST

Two Point follows the same cartoon aesthetic for its Two Point Campus franchise. In addition, the characters are customizable, we can change their clothes and include themed costumes depending on the time in which we are. We can also modify some objects such as beds or plants.

The BSO of the two-point campus is the same as the hospital, it is a radio-type music thread that itself changes the music and inserts audio announcements.

Sandbox, play your way

If you want to play for free, without the pressure of unlocking maps and leading a single campus to success, there is a sandbox mode that allows you to improve your university endlessly and customize its complications to your liking. In this mode we can choose different scenarios, first we choose the University we want to play in, each one will have a different situation and specific problems to overcome, for example in Piazza Lanatra it is a gastronomic university in which we will have to serve quality food and focus on studies of this type.

As we change universities, we will see how much land is available, which will help us get an idea of ​​how much we can expand our campus. Once the university is selected, we can choose the mode in which we want to play: standard, which is the most balanced mode in terms of objectives and starting situation; creative mode where you can create more money and points in your free time, it’s easier to get money and you have all the elements unlocked, you don’t need to get fame to have everything; challenge mode is the most difficult, you start with minimum money and points, earning points is difficult and you have to unlock items and tier options; Finally, you have a personalized mode, adjustable according to what you want most at that moment.

You can choose cash to start with, fame, get an income multiplier and a fixed monthly payment. You can also choose the campus location with temperature and point degrees. It is also adjustable by construction modes and if you want to play with goals or requirements.

In the sandbox, we can have up to 20 fields active and thus choose which ones we want to play.

challenge mode

They did an update in October where they added a challenge mode with two challenges: “The Siege of Noblestead” and “Horror of College” are Halloween themed events. In the first you have to protect Noblestead University from the mob and you have to survive two years to complete this challenge, in the second we play Chachindor University, all the students’ heads have turned into pumpkins, so their socks have dropped to the minimum, it will be necessary to improve the average grade to be able to challenge to overcome.

Conclusions

After a short period of adaptation, I got used to playing a resource management game like Two Point Campus on the Nintendo Switch. What I missed was that I don’t know which way the wind is blowing at each level, this means that money management is quite random and not very detailed, there will be months where you earn more or less with practically no change.

As for the controls, it is difficult to decorate the switch and adjust the furniture to the desired positions. I haven’t been able to find a way to pause time during the game, although it doesn’t seem like it’s something very critical when running certain aspects of the campus, personally, when I notice some management flaws I like to pause the game and tweak it or speed it up when I’ll have everything ready and I’ll just wait for some goal to be completed, in Two Point Campus for Nintendo Switch you’ll have to play in one go with no pauses or time speedups available.

Despite everything, very comfortable to play lying on the sofa while watching some simple series or on the road during a trip.