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Old games with interesting perspective switches were neat. (lemmy.world)
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I'm mostly thinking about 8 bit games, and NES in particular, but it was a thing that continued at least into the 16-bit consoles. There were a lot of games that come to mind that did the perspective shift, sometimes blending genres in the process. Stuff like:

  • Guardian Legend (sh'mup with 3rd person action)
  • Blaster Master (mix of side scrolling and top down)
  • Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link (top down, but sidescrolling battles and dungeons)
  • Contra and Super C (change in perspective from side scrolling to top-down / 3rd person)
  • Actraiser (sidescroller + god game)
  • Battle Golfer Yui (adventure/golf game mashup)

I'm sure there's plenty of others I'm not thinking of. It just feels creative, like even if in some cases a title might not be a "good" game, stuff like this just feels interesting, and there was a lot of experimentation with genre mashups and perspective changes like this in the 8 and 16-bit era.

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[–] jecxjo@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

I always liked the switch that went on in Terminal Velocity. Half of the fame was free space flying while other parts were tunnel flying. It was a nice way to transition between surroundings.