A quite unique and memorable little mini-game collection. The star of the show here isn't necessarily the games themselves, which are for the most part quite fun and well designed, but the framing device behind it all is what's truly brilliant.
The idea is that you've been taken back in time and forced to complete challenges in fictional (but fairly authentic feeling) NES-styled games. It sounds basic, but it's a concept that's really fleshed out, with fictional backstories and development stories written about all the games, you can read gaming magazines with cheat codes and reviews, and the games get more advanced and sophisticated over time as the in-universe technology evolves.
Haggleman 2 and Rally King SP feel a bit like padding and Guadia Quest being a whole ass JRPG you have to go through a good chunk of feels like way too much, but overall it's a really shining example of what presentation and some clever attention to detail can do for a game.
The idea is that you've been taken back in time and forced to complete challenges in fictional (but fairly authentic feeling) NES-styled games. It sounds basic, but it's a concept that's really fleshed out, with fictional backstories and development stories written about all the games, you can read gaming magazines with cheat codes and reviews, and the games get more advanced and sophisticated over time as the in-universe technology evolves.
Haggleman 2 and Rally King SP feel a bit like padding and Guadia Quest being a whole ass JRPG you have to go through a good chunk of feels like way too much, but overall it's a really shining example of what presentation and some clever attention to detail can do for a game.