Total RememberThe Theme is to remember to look back on the history of video games through its characters, structures, engineers and processes.These days we used to go into ports on weak systems with a few fixed edges, maybe some mud stuff, some long loading times. For example, Author 3 Turn on. But in the days of Game Boy Advance, when games were nowhere to be found nearby For GameCube visuals (or even the N64), the ports had to be powered.
And few get as much establishment – and end up glowing as a result – as the work of Vicarious Vision did in the most notable skating series in the early 2000s.
While it is now known as a collaborative studio we've worked on everything from Guitar Hero in order Desiny, Vicarious & # 39; s big break as freelance developers come when activation & # 39; s Tony Hawk & # 39; s Pro Skater The series needed to be installed on Nintendo's # & # 39; s Game Advance behaviors.
Their first release of this work was in 2001 Tony Hawk & # 39; s Pro Skater 2, which not only are they one of the most licensed sounds of all time, but on the console and PC it looked like this:
The humble little Little Boy Game Advance … can't do that. Instead of being overwhelmed with trying, however, Vicarious tore a bone in the vein, took what was most important – the level of trickery and tactics – and reorganized the handheld game.
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Gone was the expensive 3D tax show (and the original soundtrack), instead of an isometric view, great video views. It was like a completely different game, and yet it managed to remain surprisingly true to its big console brothers thanks to its good size design and smooth Stunt controls.
What I like most about the Vicarious & # 39; Game Boy space is that if you stop looking at what you were comparing to console versions, then start looking at what you did it, it's such an amazing game in itself.
In 2001 the game might have looked at loads of people – especially those who played on PlayStation or Xbox or PC – as a portable portal to Game Boy so one of the world's biggest states could say that it was on stage.
By 2020, however, there is some controversy that it is old far better than the quagmire of the main series, at least in a practical sense.
Vicarious will continue to release a few more Tony Hawk games on the GBA, and finally on the DS too, but in the middle of all that, in 2003, and they were guilty of introducing the Dreamcast classic Jet Set Radio to Game Boy Advance.
It was somehow a very similar project Tony Hawk. Take a great 3D console game, bring it to Nintendo's weak hands and rearrange it as an isometric title. And somehow, it has been a disappointment, the GBA channel show has failed to avert the sharp look of Dreamcast. Not helping this way was the way certain aspects of the game and its surroundings stayed true to the pure lines of the first game, while others with muddy scenes looked discarded from a completely different game.
But all in all, it's the same Tony Hawk, this was one hell of a game. It's definitely a difference; this is they felt such as Jet Set Radio, and you could argue that this was an extreme and fun idea as first-class architecture tended to be a source of frustration when it came to its innocent time limits, while in this isometric Tokyo-Everything seems less and less manageable.
And the music! While this was a game of graffiti, many people's memories of their favorite songs of amazing, eclectic sound. On the console it can be played and fully enjoyed, but of course the Game Boy Advance Vicarious will be worth it, as they did with Tony Hawk, take off our clothes and replace them with the usual boating equipment?
Nope! They just took the repetitive nature of many electronic tracks, cutting them off and able to reduce them to the game, where they are instantly recognizable. Even the DJ Professor K's iconic call "JET SET RADIOOOOO" has made it.
I love the way the reviews of these games are presented in the GBA. It's a strange way to post games we don't see these days without established mobile titles (Eidos & # 39; Hitman, Tomb Raider and Deus Ex efforts go to mind), and it is one that I highly respect when done right like this.
Basically, what I'm building with all of this is recycling: isometric games are good, and if given the opportunity, we can do more of that.
