More games should be on rails (literally)
It’s been a good few weeks for games on rails. Nintendo’s Star Fox remake wisely kept the tightly scripted, action-packed levels from Star Fox 64 largely the same, and they’re still fun to fly through nearly 20 years later. Denshattack!, a new game from Undercoders, similarly features levels packed with carefully orchestrated sequences to great effect. Except instead of flying through space as an unnervingly realistic anthropomorphic fox, you’re flying — and flipping, and spinning, and grinding — through Japan while driving a blindingly fast train.
Calling Denshattack! a train game radically undersells what you actually do. Across a bright and colorful version of Japan, you’ll tear and trick your way through towns and landscapes like you’re playing a supercharged version of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater. You fly through levels like a bullet, drift around corners and try to catch a boost, and leap off ramps to do...
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