by Donald Theriault - February 22, 2021, 8:00 am EST Total comments: 1
Source: Nintendo
What else is out this week besides Bravely Default: The New Class?
It s the rare occasion in which you can debate whether a Nintendo published game is the big game of the week: Bravely Default III: This Time It s Personal is countered by the full release of Persona 5 Strikers to give those who enjoy RPGs a coronary. But this week is busy even beyond that: the planning spreadsheet for this week runs 40 deep and it took two and a half hours to load the list.
Code;Realize -Wintertide Miracles- is also in shops this week, and Steam Prison is a) digital only and b) breaking the $59.99 US price barrier with what appears to be a randomly selected number (but is likely straight conversion). Capcom s doubleheader of old school concludes with Ghosts n Goblins Resurrection, and we have a loving tribute to Crazy Taxi in Taxi Chaos giving me a lift. I ll also be monitoring Curse of the Dead Gods
The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening,
Shadow of the Colossus,
Demon’s Souls, and Final Fantasy VII have been remade in the past few years, in very different but equally successful translations. And through it all, we hold out hope that beloved classics like
Metal Gear Solid,
Chrono Trigger might find a way to see a resurgence on new consoles.
But sometimes, the road to bringing back a beloved game is a bit more twisty. Maybe the rights to a series are in limbo. Perhaps the original publisher has no interest in revisiting a certain property. Or, in many cases, much of the original creative team has gone on to form a completely different studio. It’s in these situations that we’ve seen the rise of the spiritual successor, a way of making what’s old feel new again, that’s showing no signs of stopping in the coming years.
The Simpsons: Bug Squad!, was discovered and shared by YouTube account DreamcasticChannel. According to the Toutuber, the
Bug Squad demo was prepared for Fox Interactive by the now-defunct Red Lemon Studio in 2000, but was never fully developed as an official game.
The tech demo, which runs on the Sega Dreamcast, does not include any music or sound effects, and follows a bug as it explores the iconic interior of the Simpson house. The video also showcases the game’s mechanics, accompanied by narration by DreamcasticChannel.
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Check out the footage below.
Following the release of the video, Red Lemon Studio co-founder Andy Campbell reached out to DreamtasticChannel to share more about the tech demo. “Oh my! Not seen that for 20 years! We had a great coder who had developed an amazing cell shading engine for [the Dreamcast]. I knew Fox pretty well, so this was a demo we created and I pitched to them. We were never commissioned, so this was technically never an
New Crazy Taxi-Inspired Game Announced
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While Sega s Crazy Taxi franchise has all-but-disappeared over the last few years, fans of the arcade classic will be happy to know that a spiritual successor is on the way called
Taxi Chaos. Sega is not involved in the game s development, but
Taxi Chaos developer Team6 may have gotten the seal of approval from the
Crazy Taxi creator, as Sega owns a patent on
Crazy Taxi s core gameplay mechanic. Like the game that inspired it,
Taxi
Chaos will task players with picking up customers and taking them to various locations around the game s map within a set amount of time in order to receive payment for the drop-off.