It’s a Snackbar Games staff kart party, as Andrew is joined by Graham, Henry, Lucas, Jeff, Chris Ingersoll and Chris Dominowski to check out the online racing of Mario Kart 8!
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It’s a fairly common game development practice: build on a game’s engine and assets to make a new experience on the same platform with less time and effort. It’s resulted in some all-time great games, like The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and it’s also meant dev teams could deliver more than one title in a generation.
These games aren’t often the ones we miss; once a series starts being localized, it tends to stay that way for a while. But sometimes it happens! Thankfully, these are easy games to import, as you know the controls and systems well from the previous game we did get. In this edition of Gaijin Guide, I’m sharing five games that follow this formula and could be worth your time.
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With the release of The Denpa Men: They Came By Wave, developer Genius Sonority hit upon a formula that was both compelling and a showcase of the 3DS’ particular strengths and quirks. Since then, the focus has been on augmenting and fleshing out that experience, building upon what was largely a proof-of-concept title and giving you more reasons to stay in the world and let yourself get lost in it. The Denpa Men 3: The Rise of Digitoll seems like the culmination of these efforts, a game so full of bells and whistles that we’re not sure there’s room for any more. READ MORE
On this episode of Snack Time, we don’t let technical issues keep us down! Graham jumps into his Super Famicom collection, joined by Lucas and Andrew. Featured games: Battle Cross, Super Fire Pro Wrestling Special, Kunio-kun no Dodgeball, Torneko’s Mystery Dungeon and Tetris Battle Gaiden. Topics: Transistor, Motocross Maniacs and more!
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I’ve previously written about the unfortunate history of handheld multiplayer and the occasional experiences that are worth having. The advent of wireless multiplayer in the DS era has certainly made things at least a bit easier, but up until this point, there just hasn’t been that much outside of Pokemon trading to get people to give it a try, and if you can’t get people in the door, there’s no reason to work on more games to keep those who’ve bought in happy.
Now that’s about to change. Now we’re getting a handheld Super Smash Bros. title. READ MORE
