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Nintendo Power - Rollercoaster Tycoon 3D review details, Bomb Monkey info
RollerCoaster Tycoon 3D review details
- Build plenty rollercoasters in Coaster Story mode
- This mode has players helping tycoons revitalize their parks
- Help them raise money and attract guests
- Missions are generally simple but decently paced
- They challenge your coaster-constructing skills as well
- Fun to experiment with the coaster types to see what you can create
- Build and save up to nine rides using the separate Coaster Creator mode
- Pull your creations later to fulfill Coaster Story mission objectives
- Sandbox Mode is “a huge letdown”
- Unlimited funds, big plot of land available
- Very small limit on the number of rides, coaster parts, scenery pieces, shops, and footpaths that can be added to the park
- Lacks details that gave older entries some of their charm
- Can’t check guest statuses
- Can’t name rides
- Interface is cumbersome, making reconstructing sections of roller coasters difficult
- Can’t modify a coaster’s track without deleting each pieces that follows the area you wish to change
“Although RollerCoaster Tycoon 3D can be fun, its shortcoming prevent it from being the immersive experience the series is famous for. Fans might be excited to see the franchise return, but this portable simplification will leave most players feeling less than thrilled."
Bomb Monkey info
- Stylistically different from Renegade Kid’s previous games
- Arcade-style falling-block puzzler
- Hold the 3DS sideways to play
- Use control pad or Circle Pad to move your money back and forth along the top of the screen
- Press down to drop colored blocks wherever you see fit
- Stack is constantly growing, rises from the bottom of the screen
- If the stack reaches your monkey’s location, the game ends
- Randomly obtain access to bombs
- Use bombs to destroy nearby blocks
- Blocks that are next each other and have the same color can all be destroyed at once if they’re hit by a bomb
- Somewhat comparable to Super Puzzle Fighter II
- Need to hit locked blocks multiple times to destroy
- Special red boxes can destroy an entire row or column of blocks when detonated
- Position red blocks strategically to set up massive combs that take out nearly all blocks in sight
- Destroy spheres marked with letters to spell the word BOMB
- This allows you to enter Bomb Monkey Time
- Bomb Monkey Time: drop unlimited boxes temporarily
- Endless mode included
- Destroy as many blocks and rack up as high a score as possible before you lose in Endless mode
- Rescue mode: destroy a cage with bombs in order to free another monkey
- Numbers mode: Destroy numbered spheres in the correct order
- Versus and co-op modes: play with a friend using one 3DS
- Friend controls his monkey with the X, A, B buttons
- Action takes place over both screens in versus and co-op
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- Build plenty rollercoasters in Coaster Story mode
- This mode has players helping tycoons revitalize their parks
- Help them raise money and attract guests
- Missions are generally simple but decently paced
- They challenge your coaster-constructing skills as well
- Fun to experiment with the coaster types to see what you can create
- Build and save up to nine rides using the separate Coaster Creator mode
- Pull your creations later to fulfill Coaster Story mission objectives
- Sandbox Mode is “a huge letdown”
- Unlimited funds, big plot of land available
- Very small limit on the number of rides, coaster parts, scenery pieces, shops, and footpaths that can be added to the park
- Lacks details that gave older entries some of their charm
- Can’t check guest statuses
- Can’t name rides
- Interface is cumbersome, making reconstructing sections of roller coasters difficult
- Can’t modify a coaster’s track without deleting each pieces that follows the area you wish to change
“Although RollerCoaster Tycoon 3D can be fun, its shortcoming prevent it from being the immersive experience the series is famous for. Fans might be excited to see the franchise return, but this portable simplification will leave most players feeling less than thrilled."
Bomb Monkey info
- Stylistically different from Renegade Kid’s previous games
- Arcade-style falling-block puzzler
- Hold the 3DS sideways to play
- Use control pad or Circle Pad to move your money back and forth along the top of the screen
- Press down to drop colored blocks wherever you see fit
- Stack is constantly growing, rises from the bottom of the screen
- If the stack reaches your monkey’s location, the game ends
- Randomly obtain access to bombs
- Use bombs to destroy nearby blocks
- Blocks that are next each other and have the same color can all be destroyed at once if they’re hit by a bomb
- Somewhat comparable to Super Puzzle Fighter II
- Need to hit locked blocks multiple times to destroy
- Special red boxes can destroy an entire row or column of blocks when detonated
- Position red blocks strategically to set up massive combs that take out nearly all blocks in sight
- Destroy spheres marked with letters to spell the word BOMB
- This allows you to enter Bomb Monkey Time
- Bomb Monkey Time: drop unlimited boxes temporarily
- Endless mode included
- Destroy as many blocks and rack up as high a score as possible before you lose in Endless mode
- Rescue mode: destroy a cage with bombs in order to free another monkey
- Numbers mode: Destroy numbered spheres in the correct order
- Versus and co-op modes: play with a friend using one 3DS
- Friend controls his monkey with the X, A, B buttons
- Action takes place over both screens in versus and co-op
Link, Link