And stealth games are precious
rare in the platformer genre.
Not exact matches
Apparently, the game is similar to
Rare's previous
platformer games, yet
in the third - person.
Rare, which is based
in England, spent its first decade developing NES games before it was partially purchased by Nintendo
in 1994 and conscripted to make the remarkably successful (and excellent)
platformer Donkey Kong Country, along with its sequels.
When
Rare's Donkey Kong Country hit the SNES
in 1994, we were gifted with one of the greatest
platformers not only of its time, but for generations to come.
The main goal of the game,
in classic
platformer collect - a-thon fashion, is to find both individual cube bits (of which eight will form a finished cube),
rare full cubes, and even
rarer dark anti-cubes, along with some uniquely hidden and challenging - to - find secrets
in the form of treasure maps, chests, keys, and even real life elements such as QR codes.
2017 saw two different developers attempt to revive
Rare's brand of 3D
platformers in Yooka - Laylee and A Hat
in Time.
Okay, they were big
in the days of the N64 and Playstation 1, but with
Rare's decline and the FPS genre taking off, the days of 3D mascot
platformers seemingly came to an end.
The new trailer announces that Shovel Knight, the protagonist of the popular 2D
platformer with same name by Yacht Club Games, will have a cameo
in the upcoming game, complete with classic
Rare styled gibberish talk.
Remember, 3D
platformers are
rare in the indie scene because they're difficult to make compared to simpler genres.
Rare's pioneering use of pre-rendered characters caused jaws to drop all over the world when Donkey Kong Country made its debut
in 1994, and while the game owes a massive debt to Super Mario, it's polished and entertaining enough to stand on its own as one of the best 16 - bit
platformers ever made.
Cyto is a
rare standout
in the crowded three - star
platformer genre that has you flinging through a vibrant, ominous world to recover the memories of an adorable amoeba.
The announcement has surprised some fans who have cited that they weren't expecting a new Banjo - Kazooie title until after Nintendo had released Super Mario Galaxy, as developer
Rare would need to «steal» new gameplay ideas from Nintendo
in order to create a successful
platformer adventure.
A Hat
in Time is a 3D collect - a-thon
platformer in the spirit of the beloved Nintendo and
Rare games from the Nintendo 64 era.
This sort of bravado is even more apparent
in the slightly more
rare Escape Goat, which is also a physics based puzzle
platformer game created by the Magical Time Bean team.