Bizarre lack of trailers, apart from one kinda blandly assembled gameplay footage video on a random channel. This seems like it would be neat!
Their promotion could indeed be better for such a neat series, IMO. Previously been a third-party affair where a company like Natsume or Degica would localise and publish it in non-Japanese markets. So, this would appear to be ArtDink’s first real crack at handling worldwide publishing themselves and it probably shows so far. The Japanese promotion is leaps ahead, they hosted a 6 hour-long livestream (in Japanese) with game director Masaki Iizuka this past weekend.
Glad they at least carried the free trial idea over to non-Japanese markets because while the English game website is okay I am not sure it is that much more enlightening for people on the fence about buying it.
There are events at every intersection, although some of them (the Burning Routes) are gated until you earn that car.
The non Burning Route events are separated into Races, Stunt Runs, and my favorite, the Road Rage and Marked Man events, where the objective is to crash into or avoid being taken down by other cars. You do need to drive around to the intersection itself to unlock the event (so it shows up on the world map), but you should be able to play any event from the start of the game.
The various boosts are almost all irrelevant unless you are chasing achievements, which on the Switch you won’t be :) You gain boost differently depending on the car you are using, but I find that after a certain point the Aggression cars generate the most boost just because you are always driving into oncoming traffic and crashing into other cars. But you can’t get Burnout chains with those, only with the speed cars.
The billboards and super jumps and whatnot are for achievements and completionists. One of the most fun, semi-hidden modes is pressing L1 and R1 to enter Showtime, where the objective is to cause as many cars to crash as possible. It’s a silly minigame but it’s a hoot for kids.
I really loved Burnout Paradise a decade ago and I’m happy to have transferred this love to my son on the Switch. I know it’s the red-headed stepchild of the Burnout series but it still really works for me.
It was very different from what came before, IMO. The series peaked for me with 2/3. But I know a LOT of people who got in with Paradise and adored it, so. . . win some, lose some?
Yeah. It’s really not at all like the games that made the series name. It turned off a lot of people.
Burnout Revenge is still my favorite.
There was a brief window in Burnout Paradise that I loved the game. But that window is narrow. It’s inherently got some flaws in its design. Like the fact that missions are given at intersections, and there’s many many more intersections on the right side of the map than the left side of the map. So when a mission usually takes you to the left side of the map, the first few times you get a mission there, but those are soon all completed. Then the game becomes about getting missions that take you to the left side of the map and then having to drive all the way back. It’s just… ugh. They could have designed that so much better.
Thanks, the info has gotten me into it. I’m enjoying a go cart racer with slicks, though it’s apparently very OP for racing right now.
Diddums
2796
Yeah, Remastered opens up the Toy Cars, Cop Cars and the Legendary cars from the getgo, which are a lot of fun but incredibly OP.
The original cars given to you in the progression gate, e.g. the SUV that looks like a whale and handles like a whale, or the Ferrari knockoff that wrecks if you breathe on it, are not as enjoyable to drive but more satisfying if you pull out the win.
It’s still March 10, the 35th anniversary of Mario.
Here’s some deals.
Mario Kart 8 is $40 at Amazon and Best Buy. Seems outrageously expensive for a game that came out in 2014. But hey, I’d still get it if it was a digital code. Not sure I want a physical copy though.
morlac
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Switch/Nintendo pricing is so redicolous. Blasphemy I know but thankfully I don’t like most of their first party stuff. I begrudgingly pay a premium for indie/older pc stuff I want in a handheld though. I do family sharing with nephew and a neighbor so I get to play all their stuff at least without feeling ripped off.
Oooh, can you family share digital purchases? My brother’s family has a Switch, and I’m sure with his 4 kids, he’s got lots of digital purchases by now. Is there a way to share those?
The answer is: not really.
Every account has a “primary” Switch. On this primary Switch, any account can play downloaded games offline.
On any other “secondary” Switch, only the account that purchased the game can play it, and you need to be online to do so, because it will occasionally phone home to validate that you have a license for the game.
If you want to share games between Switches, you need to buy cartridges.
Malkael
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Someone at Artdink must have heard Armando about the lack of a good English SEO-compatible official trailer for A-Train All Aboard! Tourism. The voice over work is entirely in Japanese but at least they added very good closed captions to the video so English speakers can follow along. So, if anyone wanted to get a decent grasp on what the game is about in just five minutes they gotcha covered now.
Any reviews?
The graphics look 20 or 25 years old (not that they are the MOST important thing). On the one hand you’d hope that’d make it run well enough on Switch. OTOH who knows how well it is optimized & how good/bad the joycon controls are.
Diego
Just a note that when I’ve tested online multiplayer games those will complain if I’m playing my copy on my secondary Switch at the same time my son is playing the same game on our primary Switch. I’ve had people argue this isn’t the case though.
Thraeg
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Yeah, if you want to play on the primary and secondary at the same time, you have to have the primary system offline. When the secondary system phones home, it checks that the same Nintendo account isn’t already online playing on another system.
Technically it came out in 2017; the Wii U version came out in 2014, but the Switch version is running at 1080p and contains all the DLC from the original game.
It doesn’t. :P
You can try the demo. I can handle whatever graphics, but shoddy performance bothers me so I struggled.
Malkael
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Plenty of positive Japanese language reviews popping up so far, as to be expected. Metacritic & OpenCritic only has a single review on it so far, from a Spanish website. So, probably have to wait for user reviews based on how many publications reviewed previous games in the series. Not the kind of game that IGN or the like typically cover unfortunately.
There was a release day patch, so unsure whether performance of the release version is better than the demo\trial version since I can’t verify it myself.
