I love that jumping also includes the ability to then stomp on people like Goombas, because, let’s face it, this game alludes to everything from the 8bit era. As the original Retro City Rampage was designed with the NES in mind, you don’t have a ton of variety for what you can do, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. You can only cycle one way through weapons and need to either open up the menu or toggle quickly if you accidentally pass which item in your arsenal you had your heart set on.
Driving doesn’t inherently request you to push on the gas, but a braking option does make for safer and tighter turning. The controls for Retro City Rampage DX are excellently laid out for the Switch, with the option to change things up in the menu bar if you don’t feel things are intuitive out the gate. There are things to buy, such as health and weapons, but you can mostly find what you want/need from doing missions and randomly taking out warm bodies on the street. People will definitely become speedbumps, and the police will absolutely chase you down if they see you committing a crime, be it murder or reckless driving. Anything smaller than a building can probably be destroyed. You can drive a number of vehicles, run around on foot and either follow roads or tear about like a maniac. Each mission you accomplish will move you further along the storyline, which really boils down to being the best damn criminal you can be. Your investment and enjoyment in the 3 rd one can more easily be enjoyed by the “open world” mode that won’t affect your life counter, but it’s still possible in the adventure mode. There’s your main story missions, your side story missions and then your “run around and to hell with missions” approach. The main adventure mode essentially has three paths that you can follow simultaneously. It’s a top down action/adventure with a surprisingly large map to explore and utilize for mayhem and missions. If you’ve ever played the original Grand Theft Auto games (before they went all 3D and such), you have a pretty good idea of where you’re at with Retro City Rampage DX. You only answer one of these questions, and I won’t insult you by letting you guess which one. As you run tasks and errands for various members of the city (both above and below board), Player looks inside himself to find out what’s really important in life, where he wants his future to go, and if he can jump a whole schoolbus over a river if he hits that sweet ramp. I mean, to be fair, almost all the crime is perpetrated by you, at the behest of other criminals, and the peril comes from being a bystander when you’re out on the road. Originally called Grand Theft Nintendo (before obvious reasons forced a name change), RCRDX is the story of one Player trying to make his way in a city fraught with peril, crime and “might makes right”| mentality.
By comparison, this is my fourth time playing Retro City Rampage (second for the DX version) and it is, without a doubt, still ridiculously fun.Ī quick summation: Retro City Rampage is the homage to end all homages. You simply prayed a friend had scored the game, you could feign wanting to hang out and then wait patiently for your turn to play and hog the controller until he yelled for his mom and you had to go home. There was a time when a game came out on a single system, you could only buy it in stores, you had to pay the MSRP and, if the game was sold out, you couldn’t see others play on YouTube, Twitch or whatever. To follow the story – fan made homage, indie joint release, worldwide phenomenon – is to grasp and appreciate the complexity and new blood style of the game marketplace that we experience in today’s age. Retro City Rampage, from VBlank Entertainment, is a sort of national treasure in the video game world.
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