There's some novelty here in racing boats instead of cars for a change, and the controls are decent, but the gameplay itself gets repetitive quickly.
Pretty neat idea. Controls are ok overall.
Doesn't control well and isn't fun to play.
Not a great game, it certainly is one of the many NES games that have not aged all too well. However, it is still very much possible to have fun with a friend on this. If you have Nintendo Switch Online or just happened to have it lying around, it's a good way to kill 30 minutes to an hour.
Playing Through My Evercade Collection Part 16: Piko Interactive Collection 2
Starting the Piko Collection 2 with a game thats.... ok? I don't think its a particularly bad game, heck, I had quite a bit of fun with it but despite some nifty little ideas like the shop mechanics and the flicking between top-down and third person racing providing a set of fun little distractions, there just isn't really enough to do here.
The races themselves, while amusing enough, are all too similar and samey thanks to almost every single race being a strict race from bottom to top affair. Theres some turns about but no real variety in the layouts. The art is also absolutely ugly as sin, especially the massive gurning character faces in between races. Owtch.
Starting the Piko Collection 2 with a game thats.... ok? I don't think its a particularly bad game, heck, I had quite a bit of fun with it but despite some nifty little ideas like the shop mechanics and the flicking between top-down and third person racing providing a set of fun little distractions, there just isn't really enough to do here.
The races themselves, while amusing enough, are all too similar and samey thanks to almost every single race being a strict race from bottom to top affair. Theres some turns about but no real variety in the layouts. The art is also absolutely ugly as sin, especially the massive gurning character faces in between races. Owtch.
I kind like this game just for the fact that you can ramp your boat and land on top of another guy's boat and just annihilate it. Also the box art for this game looks like trapper keeper art.
This was a surprising amount of fun. Again, rewind made it better than it would have been otherwise, because it's full of that NES shenanigans.
Eliminator Boat Duel was a game that I thought I would not enjoy based on what I saw from the NSO trailer for it. But when I played it, it was a very dynamic racing game with boats, and you essentially use prize money to upgrade parts of your vehicle to win bigtime. It was a good title, although the movement was a little wonky.