Status Reset_Tears Jul 30, 2022
Played this on the Famicom Switch Online app (via Japanese account). Surprisingly fun little Pac-Man-ish type game with race cars, once you get used to the wonky controls. So how this works, is it's an overhead view and there are a bunch of mazes laid out on a numbered grid of sorts -- you drive into one of them, and …
Played this on the Famicom Switch Online app (via Japanese account). Surprisingly fun little Pac-Man-ish type game with race cars, once you get used to the wonky controls. So how this works, is it's an overhead view and there are a bunch of mazes laid out on a numbered grid of sorts -- you drive into one of them, and navigate through the maze to pick up items, all while avoiding enemy cars (they run into you, you die). When you exit a maze, you go back to the zoomed-out screen showing all the mazes (simplified to just squares). Really hard to explain, but it's not that hard to get when you play. The controls are what's weird. The car is always going, and if it reaches a wall, it automatically turns on its own (a bit like the mice in Chu Chu Rocket, if you've ever played that). You can hold the direction you want to be going in advance before each fork in the road, and I advise this because again, this car has no breaks and it's going to automatically turn the instant it reaches a wall.
I can see most people dropping this one after a minute or two, since it's a rather bizarre take on a very simple type of game. But the weirdness made it kind of interesting for me, and it's fun enough for a quick go just to see how long you can last, similar to something like Snake.