More games should be on rails (literally)
This review highlights the game 'Denshattack!', a high-speed, rail-based arcade game where players control a train through stylized Japanese landscapes. The author praises its fast-paced, stunt-heavy gameplay and compares it to classic arcade titles.
Why it matters
It showcases the enduring appeal of 'on-rails' arcade gaming mechanics in the modern indie game market.
It’s been a good few weeks for games on rails. Nintendo’s Star Fox remake wisely kept the tightly scripted, action-packed levels from Star Fox 64 largely the same, and they’re still fun to fly through nearly 20 years later. Denshattack!, a new game from Undercoders, similarly features levels packed with carefully orchestrated sequences to great effect. Except instead of flying through space as an unnervingly realistic anthropomorphic fox, you’re flying — and flipping, and spinning, and grinding — through Japan while driving a blindingly fast train.
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