Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for May 16th, 2024. Heh, Lagwagon. It s a Thursday today, and that means a whole bunch of games got dumped onto the eShop.
How One Of The Worst Racing Games Ever Taught Me To Enjoy Bad Things
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So reads the copy on the back of
Driving Emotion Type-S, one of the earliest PlayStation 2 games, released in March of 2000 in Japan.
Type-S was published by Square EA, a peculiar joint venture between the two gaming giants where they’d release each other’s titles in their respective territories. It was developed by a studio named Escape. As far as I can tell, Escape never made another game.
Illustration: Square Enix
Spend all of 10 seconds behind the wheel of any one of
Type-S’s 43 cars, and you’ll quickly understand why this forgotten racer might be Escape’s only credit.