Developer DMM Games has announced that Gal Metal, its endearingly bizarre rock improv rhythm experience, will launch on Switch next month, on November 2nd.
Gal Metal first came to Switch earlier this year in Japan, and it’s the kind of surreal, high-concept oddity that doesn’t always make the journey west. If you strip away the strangeness around its alien invasion storyline though, Gal Metal is actually a fairly straightforward – if idiosyncratic – rhythm game, tasking players to have a bash (using Joy-Cons, Pro Controller, or touchscreen) on imaginary drums.
Progress is made by accruing points, which are earned by learning increasingly complex drum lines then stringing them together in time with the music. However, there’s a firm emphasis on improvisation and free-form musicianship, meaning that Gal Metal plays out more like Nintendo’s sorely under-appreciated (I still maintain) Wii Music rather than, say, Guitar Hero.
Source: Eurogamer Alien invasion rhythm oddity Gal Metal gets a November release date on Switch