Mechanically and visually, my favorite Densha de Go!! game. Honking at train nerds and switching off your lights for passing trains makes for some wonderfully chaotic stretches of score chasing in between stations, and the game's singe-player mode--full of bite-sized missions--is kind of fantastic in how much it manages to get out of the Yamanote line. Plus, I'm a big fan of the analog stick control method they've got here that let's us players without a special controller pretend at least a little.
The simple problem is that there's just not enough! This game would be a perfect fit for an avalanche of DLC, and props (I guess?) for saying "No, this is a complete product, all you will get is here," but come on, friends! Only the Yamanote? And you can only go one direction on it? And we don't even get unique station jingles? AND it's lacking in a real museum mode, which feels like a crime for the nerdiest, train-obsessed thing there is. That great single layer mode can only hide how skinny it all is for so long.
In the end, this feels like what it is--a single slice of the much fuller pizza that is the arcade experience. But boy if it isn't a slice of the most delicious pizza you've ever had...
The simple problem is that there's just not enough! This game would be a perfect fit for an avalanche of DLC, and props (I guess?) for saying "No, this is a complete product, all you will get is here," but come on, friends! Only the Yamanote? And you can only go one direction on it? And we don't even get unique station jingles? AND it's lacking in a real museum mode, which feels like a crime for the nerdiest, train-obsessed thing there is. That great single layer mode can only hide how skinny it all is for so long.
In the end, this feels like what it is--a single slice of the much fuller pizza that is the arcade experience. But boy if it isn't a slice of the most delicious pizza you've ever had...