Panic / Sam Machkovech
If you are reading this article Before My complete perusal Playdate hardware review, Stop now. Click that link and read today’s hardware-specific review to get a context of why this part was split into its own space.
Well, it’s cool. You know what you’re looking for: A complete spoiler rama overview of all 24 Playdate exclusive games that come as part of the $ 179 price tag for the eccentric system. As an additional spoiler, these titles are listed in unlocked order. This is because Panic requires the game to be displayed on the owner’s device as part of the twice-weekly download process. (The main system review explains why you don’t want to know this yet, and includes a spoiler-free breakdown of the games included in the system.)
The number next to each game name indicates the week of unlocking, not the rating. (So if you just want to ruin the first four weeks of the game, stop when you reach “5”.) Ars doesn’t get reviews for the game, but I have so many titles to choose from. Select a set of simple distinctions: “thumbs up”, “shrugs”, “thumbs up”. These labels apply to both the fun elements of the game and the uniqueness of Playdate.
These are miniature reviews, thanks to the number of games and general conciseness. If you’re looking for a large game, Playdate isn’t for you.But if you are looking Large scale System boot library overview, strap-in.
1:White water wipe out
Author: Chuhai Labs
Fun element: thumbs up
Playdate Uniqueness: Agree
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Turn the crank straight down to start the pilot.
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Move left and right to speed up, but don’t go too far in half the wave crash. Otherwise it will fall.
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Point the surfboard properly when landing the trick. Otherwise it will crash.
The first unlocking of Playdate for new owners makes sense as a flashy “launch” game. White water wipe out It relies on the crank in a way that is difficult to duplicate with a joystick. The game runs smoothly and looks great in black and white.
It also sets the Playdate tone. WW Is one of the many games that appeared in Playdate’s first season and revolves around the 1980s arcade mindset of quartermanching and score tracking actions. Every session begins with the character catching the waves, maneuvering the surfboard and balancing speed, jumps and aerial tricks as they move away from the dangerous summit of the waves. It’s all from a top-down 2D perspective that looks like this: Classic surfing mode California games, Much smoother. All sessions inevitably end with the top of the wave overtaking you. Usually within 90 seconds.
The goal, like any good quarter mancher, is to get as many points as possible before the waves catch up. This is mainly done by rotating the crank during the hops of the waves in the air. If you rotate the actual crank 720 degrees, 1,080 degrees, or 1,440 degrees, the surfer will react in kind (as long as the surfer has enough air and speed, it will not move one-on-one with the crank). In real life, you can rotate the crank more than 2,000 degrees, which is the time it takes a surfer to make 1,080 turns more realistically.
Thankfully, the basic gameplay feels fun and fair, as it’s easy to decipher the breaks between these speeds and adjust accordingly.It doesn’t seem desperate Mario Party A mini-game that may aggravate you by not recognizing your desperate joystick rotation. The Playdate crank is accurate.Not like WWIn the preview build of, the game provides fine-tuning of tricks via the D-pad, which adds spice to basic gameplay. But it’s still sad that Chuhai Labs didn’t add an additional mode to take advantage of the crank-to-surf mechanism.I previously proposed a “surf through ring” approximation Wave race 64It might have been fun.
However, in Playdate’s first-season world, content-filled patches are unlikely to be used in this game or any other game. It may be your tea in that the game will land as a “finished” fun nugget rather than jumping out of the gate due to lack of content, but young players need to be prepared for the expectations of old school content. I have.
1:Casual birder
Producer: Diego Garcia, Max Coburn
Fun element: thumbs up
Playdate Uniqueness: Agree
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Games usually look like black and white Pokemon clones. However, when you tap the “Camera” button, the interface changes to a camera that you can move with the cross key. In this mode, 2D assets are in 3D depth. That is, you need to use the Playdate crank to focus the photo.
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There are a lot of stupid writings in casual birders.
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Are you a bird, a bra?
with this Pokemon-Like an RPG, take a picture of a bird, solve a mystery, and tap a conversation with an off-quilter NPC. The game’s Gen Z attitude writing, frequent text message abbreviations for phrases like “IDK”, and its agility match the game’s art style, whimsical “find all the birds.”
To fill out the bird-o-dex, solve a simple puzzle and fly the bird to a convenient location on the screen. At that point, tap the button to pull out the camera. The Playdate crank acts as the “focus” of the camera, and the 2D world of the game suddenly takes on 3D depth in the form of pixelated blurs against objects near or far, such as signs and trees. .. Having never seen “focus” as a 2D game mechanic, I was impressed with how agile these developers implemented the system.
This is a great first week unlock for Playdate. Its cool pace, fascinating scripts, and another bird producing to keep taking pictures and solving puzzles.
2: Crankin’s Time Travel Adventure
Author: Palatine uvula (Keita Takahashi, Ryan Moller), Matthew Grimm, Sean Inman
Fun element: thumbs up
Playdate Uniqueness: Agree
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When this launch screen appears, start cranking, advance the time, and launch Crankin.
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The two little birds that collide with Crankin’s torso mean he failed the day and need to rewind and fast forward again to get to the position where he sees them again.
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You have defeated the puzzle and accomplished it, but you are still late for your date. (that is extremely Crazy cut The situation in that it always fails comically. )
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The sooner you complete the level, the more stupid the final rejection animation will be.
Legendary game maker Keita Takahashi (Catamaly Damacy, Noby Noby Boy) Is back with his best game in a few years, and it’s Playdate’s most famous game so far.This was the first game demonstrated in a series 2019 Playdate Expo appearance.. It looks cute. And it’s as close as Playdate gets closer to a “mascot” game.
Crankin gets his name because it relies on Playdate’s own control method because it freezes in time until the physical crank is turned back and forth.Each level of CTTA He wakes up every day, noticing that he is late for a date, a day in his life. His side-scrolling, run-and-jump path to each date is set with stones, cranking and moving him back and forth along that path. When you stop cranking, he stays frozen as he bows and sniffs flowers, or jumps and grabs the pull-up bar. Meanwhile, everything else around him moves in real time. When a moving creature touches him, he returns to the starting point.
Then, to win at each level, understand how Crankin reacts to static and harmless objects such as tea tables and stairs, and move forward and backward in time to see harmful creatures come in. You need to be able to “jump” or “duck” to avoid it. Are the butterflies moving towards you at head height? Crankin backwards to the point where it had previously stopped to sniff the flowers. Is something coming from behind? Crank forward to make sure your hero is ahead of the danger.
This is the most linear and puzzle-focused game Takahashi has ever created, and the way to survive and move forward is to “rotate until Crankin’s perfect animated spot pauses.” It’s rarely more intense than. But that’s okay: CTTA Since then I’ve been manipulating time differently than I’ve seen blade, And most levels are easily understood as standalone puzzles. Some exceptions will push up the crank rotation tolerance, but for example, if the pig barks start chasing the hero at ridiculous speeds, be prepared to secure the handheld system. Overall, at least the insane difficulty spikes in the game have been smoother than the pre-release testing period. On the other hand, those seeking a challenge can speed up the game and collect “stars”.
Moving the crankin back and forth over time makes it easier to use a rigid crank for full control than to use a joystick or analog trigger.The system’s limited processing power is sufficient to render the cute black and white characters in this game, all coded with a combination of hand-drawn animation frames and sprite operations (thus not like the old ones, Looks smooth and clever flash game). The high-contrast screen also makes it easy to identify different animations, from adorable to hilarious. Like other Takahashi classics, CTTAThe emphasis on humor is greatly enhanced by the quirky sound design department with Simlish jibajaber and carefully placed flatulence noise.
2: Boogie loop
Author: May-Li Khoe, Andy Matuschak
Fun element: Thumbs down
Playdate Uniqueness: Agree
In Boogie Loops, move the cursor over the Playdate D-pad to select and adjust different melodies and drum sounds. By manipulating these, you can create frequently repeated loops of chiptune music or modify any of the three built-in loops included in the game.
Boogie loop Is a music sequencer for young sets, with a limited sound bank and no real-time modulation controls, so it’s not recommended as a full-fledged sound toy. Use the four-way controller and the A button to select and modify the drum and melody sounds of individual loops and sequence those loops to create something that resembles a long-lasting song.
Playdate includes both a gyroscope and a crank, Boogie loop Neither is used for trippy real-time sound effect options. I would honestly want to see DJs and electronic musicians bring Playdate to the concert stage and apply turntable-like effects to the sound through the crank, but Panic officials say this is just a simple button. Revealed that it is a music app.
As one of the earliest unlocks for Playdate, Boogie loop You may benefit from players who stick to it in the form of Stockholm Syndrome. A child of the 1990s Mario paint As a way to express your musical creativity; Boogie loop It can attract young players in a similar way (and they will definitely do a better job tolerating the lack of instructions in the app).
