If you have been playing video games for a few years now and you lived through the old days of 16-bit consoles, surely you remember a genre that left us some of the most illustrious names in all of history: Crono Trigger , The Secret of Mana and of course The Legend of Zelda A Link to the Past . Well, take its graphics and part of its RPG development and mix it with sports disciplines. Do you know what we get? Sure enough, Sports Story .
Combine old ideas and you will succeed
We all know how beautiful many games are when they resort to that wonderful pixel art from the old releases of the 80s and 90s. There are many studios that want to give their productions that luster, now, in the case of Sidebar Games that passion It is double because it not only wants to take us back to the old days of the most classic RPGs , but also wants us to enjoy various sports disciplines in all their dimensions.
It must be said that this title is a kind of spiritual continuation of the old Golf Story that went on sale for Nintendo Switch in 2017, and that even then had a more than appreciable success that has now prompted Australians to fatten their wallets a little more. ambitions. In this way, now the catalog of sports disciplines includes tennis, fishing, volleyball, soccer, cricket, etc.
Of course, in addition to those games enjoying such disparate sports, you will have other tasks that offer variety to development , because they have dressed what could be a sports simulator in an RPG adventure where there are also dungeons and enemies that we have what to execute Which brings us back to an obvious question.
More sport or more adventure?
That is the quiz of the matter because Sports Story is a balanced compendium of both facets : we do not forget what moves us, which is winning games in all those sports that we like to practice the most, but it also immerses us in a beautiful RPG adventure with graphics that some would now call 2.5D that cannot help but remind us of some of the classics that we have already listed above.
It is that point of balance between its two souls that makes Sports Story a highly recommended title for those who from time to time want to take a bath of nostalgia and pixel art , where the old gameplay methods are imposed on the increasingly more uniform three-dimensional developments, without forgetting a competitive leg that counteracts the possible weariness that we may suffer from coming and going around the map.
This game was officially launched in the Nintendo eShop on December 23 exclusively for Nintendo Switch and it will not cost you too much since its price is 14.99 euros, so it practically becomes a must have thought for all those who Have you ever tried the mythical Golf Story, or those who are on vacation now, have free time and are looking for something modern that mixes elements as retro as graphics based on a mythical Zelda from the 90s. Don’t you think?
