There are genres in the world of video games that survive despite the years, decades, fads, consoles and computers that come and go. They are immutable and can become strong thanks to the millions of players who seek to satisfy a hobby as ingrained as that of playing a good game of football with the Fifa that it touches, for example, or to imitate train drivers and subway lines like those of Japanese Rail Sim Jordan in Kyoto.
A splendid real world
That business niche of train and subway driving games to have to Densha de Go! as one of the best known which has reached practically all consoles and computers in the last two and a half decades, which has not prevented other names from appearing with the intention of shaking the hegemonic title. And one of them is this Japanese rail sim focused on the metropolitan lines that surround one of Japan’s largest and most populous cities that you surely remember from a 2014 release for Nintendo 3DS.
Now, and here is the big difference of this title compared to others that arrive similar, is that its creators made an artistic decision that could shock at the beginning but, as you play the games, it becomes more attractive: and that is that to show the scenarios, the game does not use any 3d engine or anything similar and trusts everything to images recorded on the trains themselves with Full HD quality. That is 1920×1080 pixel resolution.
The result is a shocking general appearance of the game, because where we are looking for the typical graphic elements of a 3D game we find a hyper realistic window of the front of a metro car, more precisely the one driven by the line operator, which quickly allows you to adapt the eye and feel the game as if it were a completely real experience.
Stop the subway correctly
Using this technique from the 90s, where the full screen video (FMV) came about thanks to the explosion of the CD-ROM format, it is a risky decision but which suits him very well to east Japanese Rail Sim Jordan in Kyotowhich on this occasion puts us at the controls of the Eizan train, one of the most visited tourist destinations by those who travel to Kyoto and which goes from the city itself to the nearby mountainous region, which will take us through landscapes as surprising than the Tunnel de l’Arce.
Also we will have the whole route of the Kurama line with all its stops which we must complete in the most precise way possible, always stopping at all the stations and at the exact place where the game marks us, under penalty of not passing the level. This is the key, which we can enjoy in the first person of the scenario that unfolds in front of us, or in the background with the command control in the foreground to manage the speed, the braking and, above all, not to lose view the signals that appear during the journey.
And if that wasn’t enough, the game is on sale now on Steam, and instead of the 49.99 dollars it usually costs, you can get it for just 17.99. Don’t forget that you also have it on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation.
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