RETRORATED
Windjammers 2
THE JAM, PUMPED UP
>> This month we take the long-awaited Windjammers sequel for a spin, find out how Shadow Man’s remaster fares on home consoles and revisit SNK’s fantastic crossover game for the Neo Geo Pocket
PICKS OF THE MONTH
DARRAN
SNK Vs Capcom: Card Fighters’ Clash
I’ve really enjoyed this on Switch. And best of all, long distance means Nick can no longer thrash me at it while visiting KFC.
NICK
Windjammers 2
Smashing the unsuspecting in online ranked games has been one of my great pleasures over the last month or so.
»[Switch] The ability to jump gives you a new way to respond to lobs and blocks.
INFORMATION
» FORMAT REVIEWED
SWITCH
» ALSO ON:
PS4, XBOX ONE, PC, STADIA
» RELEASED:
OUT NOW
» PRICE:
£17.99
» PUBLISHER:
DOTEMU
» DEVELOPER:
DOTEMU
» PLAYERS:
1 -2
We love simple arcade games, but we’d never want to be a developer trying to develop a sequel to one of them. The trouble is that sometimes the original idea is so brilliant, it’s incredibly tough to expand on it in any meaningful way. Crazy Taxi 2 is a great example of this in action – the ability to jump isn’t a bad addition to the game and the new city is fine, but we don’t find ourselves missing them when we return to the first game. Windjammers 2 is a sequel to a simple arcade game, and as big fans of the original, we were initially unconvinced that it needed to exist.