Other minor niggles are present and brought on by the developer utilising the 3DS hardware. However, the developer has missed a trick by not including a way to compare scores with your friends and when all the gold medals are won, the idea of replaying these side missions becomes limited. When the game began to frustrate – underwater sections are the bane of any retro gamer’s existence – I would attempt to set high scores and win medals in the ludicrous kill-spree side missions which are equally fun and challenging. And after finding the arcade in the city, I had to force myself back to the missions rather than spend time playing BIT.TRIP or Meat Boy mini games.
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Upon stumbling on a Minecraft designed area I became a Cheshire cat looking upon a bowl of full fat cream. I love looking for loot bags and messages on the phone booths and it wouldn’t be a great Indie game without hidden nods to the community. The story is fun, the missions are enjoyable – at least before the difficulty attempts to climb so steeply it becomes vertical – but it’s in the minutiae that the deign shines. On one level, I was required to break out of prison and was being spotted by guards that were actually off-screen.Įasily my favourite aspect is in the exploration. Some simplistic ideas are also spoiled by frustrating mechanics, such as stealth levels. There are also a few set-piece scenes which are flawed due to the controls. Annoyingly, the controls are occasionally a little lacking in precision, which doesn’t help as the difficulty begins to ramp up. When I first began exploring Theftropolis I was having a blast, speeding down avenues and leaping out to cause havoc with a large array of weapons. Missions are incredibly varied and are played out in much the same vein as those that inspired this game, each featuring plenty of tongue-in-cheek humour as well as bags of action. The core of the game obviously apes past open-world crime games in both a clever and satirical way. However, the humour isn’t limited to spoofs but also VBlank entertainment taking a vocal stand against the current landscape of the video game industry. Anytime another nostalgic moment would arrive I could be found chortling behind my 3DS.
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I loved each small nod to past games, TV shows and movies. If you don’t know what Saved by the Bell is, then it’s quite likely you won’t get 100% of the references from what the developers have created. This Indie game is relishing a back catalogue of pop culture which features Back to the Future, Bill and Ted, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and even the “much admired through rose tinted glasses” Saved by the Bell. As a child of the 80’s, I couldn’t help but revel in the details lavished throughout. Some will see a retro version of GTA, some will see a parody version of the original GTA and for others, much of the writing may pass above their heads. The first thing that occurred to me is that this game will offer completely different experiences to the various generations who play. And, to be honest, there is no way anyone could play this without causing mayhem on the in-game streets. The 3DS allows the player to fully immerse themselves in this violent, GTA-esque 8-Bit adventure and hide their hideous actions in game from prying eyes. The closest you could get to multiplayer gaming back in the day was a LAN party or discussing tactics and techniques in art class. The games that Retro City Rampage DX is emulating – or mostly parodying – were insular experiences. This is my first experience of the game in any iteration and on first loading the game, it seems like a perfect home for this kind of gaming experience. Thankfully that isn’t the case with Retro City Rampage DX, which actually adds plenty of new features and also upgrades many existing core mechanics. Usually when successful games are brought over to a handheld they are dumbed down or spared a few features to make them more accessible.
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