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Soccer Story Switch NSP Free Download GAMESPACK.NET It’s a very normal part of the gaming industry for an out-of-the-blue smash hit to define a subgenre and, in the process, inspire a number of similar games. When Golf Story arrived on Switch in 2017, taking the RPG slant of Game Boy Color’s Mario Golf and pushing it in new directions, it set a particular tone for lighthearted narrative and a quirky take on its sport; inevitably, then, Soccer Story has drawn inspiration and applied similar ideas with its own spin on the beautiful game. We don’t make the comparison as a criticism, and indeed developer PanicBarn makes its own jokes and acknowledgements of its reference sources. The question then becomes whether Soccer Story has enough of its own ideas, and quality of execution, to become a worthy addition to this subgenre of pixel-based comedic sporting adventures. The answer? Yes, it does, albeit with some caveats. The overall story of Soccer Story is charming, albeit it’s not particularly creative or surprising. The evil ‘Soccer Inc.’ is a rather clunky satire of FIFA that wants to own and control football, or soccer if you prefer. A great Final match led to a ‘calamity’ and football being banned in the world; your plucky hero (you can choose between twins) lost their father in the process but wants to bring football back.TOP/BEST ADULT VIDEO GAMES IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA)

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So begins a quest to persuade hero animals to play once again, all while taking on tournaments and improving your team’s abilities. Most of your time, like in the aforementioned Golf Story, is spent not playing the sport, at least in its formal guise. You have a magic ball and explore the world, carry out side quests, and generally kick your ball at everything. You visit a colourful, charming set of locations, with the world being relatively small but packed with tasks and items to discover. Activities have some decent variety too, whether it’s hitting targets, solving simple puzzles, or occasionally scripted challenges that offer throwbacks to other games and genres. There’s repetition as you progress, however, and the story structure falls into that trap to some degree. The pattern for each area is largely the same: arrive, learn why teams aren’t playing football, run around on errands to help those teams, then play them in a mini tournament. That is a slight complaint, as from start to finish it feels a little too familiar as you move between areas (right down to often re-used dialogue lines), but overall the world has enough personality to drive you on. The actual football, whether in games of 5-a-side or even 1v1 showdowns, is mixed.

Drop your soccer ball and play anywhere! The world is full of goals, puzzles and secrets – it’s up to you to find them!

In its simplicity it can be fun, albeit we found we would either win easily in Medium difficulty or sometimes win ‘cheaply’ in Hard; at least you can change difficulty on the fly. Gameplay here is very basic, even after some additional abilities unlock later in the quest. The biggest flaw is the goalkeepers; they are either terrible or outstanding, with serious AI flaws that allow some pointless long-range shots to score. Before long you end up doing a messy mix of kick-and-rush and gegenpress to win, and it’s not always particularly satisfying. Not that we think it’s worth devoting time to, but it’s also worth mentioning that a ‘Quick Game’ option does exist to play locally with friends, too. In the end the actual football matches are competent, but the fun in this title — a little ironically — is away from the pitch. Thankfully, then, most of your time is spent off the pitch on the aforementioned quests, exploring every nook and cranny in the process. There’s a sizeable cast of NPCs and decent humour and writing to be found, and simply running around the world is a pleasure. On the technical side we have a slightly mixed bag, but it’s mostly positive. The overall look is excellent, blending pixel and voxel looks with some lovely art design, some of which appears like a sharp HD take on visual styles prominent in the DS / 3DS era.Yakuza 4 Remastered

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Visuals are a positive, though we encourage you to ignore the ‘Quality’ setting in favour of ‘Performance’; the former only adds unnecessary extra shadows while tanking the frame rate, but the game looks good and runs pretty well on the latter setting. The relationship between sports and RPGs has gotten ever closer over the years; not just with sports games introducing RPG-style growth in their systems, but with RPGs bringing their own take on sports. Soccer Story is one such title, offering a cute take on soccer (or football if you prefer) and using it as a mechanic for its set of adventure quests and puzzles. Unfortunately, annoyances, technical issues, and a flawed match system prevent it from being little more than a brief diversion. Soccer Story is set in a world where soccer is controlled by Soccer Inc., which keeps a tight lid on who can play and has shut down any other teams. Its control was established following a nebulous calamity that occurred during the final of the prestigious Apple Cup. However, a year after the calamity, a magical ball makes it way down to a young boy or girl, and sets them on the path to restore the sport as a game for all. First, however, they need to find a team. Soccer Story is primarily about undertaking quests, first to form a team of five players, then to find opponents within each of the four regions, play a short cup, and progress to the next region.

Save soccer and restore peace and harmony to the world.

Each set of quests is punctuated by a short five-a-side match or two, or a one-on-one (really two-on-two including the goalkeepers) match, against a selected opponent. The story itself is simply an excuse to get players from one quest to the next; it has some humourous moments and cute touches, but does little to engage players in any plot, while the characters are one-note, if they even get that much characterisation. What Soccer Story doesn’t lack is challenges and mini-games. Every zone has its own set of challenges, the most common involving finding and kicking the ball against various targets or into goals placed all round. Other challenges can be found all over the world naturally over the course of the game as the main quest will get players searching everywhere with its lack of navigational assistance. It lacks any form of objective markers on the map, while some quests force players to spot incredibly hard-to-see cues or lack reminders of what players are meant to be doing. Certain challenges can get frustrating, especially as it’s very easy to be slightly off with targeting, though there’s never any penalty for failure. The actual four-minute matches use a very simplified version of the game. There are no fouls or offsides, nor any formation or squad options, with players having the same four teammates throughout.FIFA 23 PC

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Players start off with the ability to pass, shoot, or tackle, but unlock other options, such as a short sprint or the ability to curve the ball as they progress. The RPG elements are incredibly light, with players simply using medals obtained from quests and challenges, or bought by spending coins found all over, to upgrade the four stats up to a maximum level of five. The most interesting of these is the shot power stat, which impacts the quest system the most as the players’ starting kick power is too weak to hit many of the targets. The match system starts out chaotically fun, but quickly reveals major weaknesses, mostly concerning the goalkeepers, which players will find easy to exploit. Goalkeepers act on their own and there is a stamina system associated with them, stated to operate so teams on the attack are more likely to score. However, this doesn’t work in practice. When the ball is close to the goal during a five-a-side match, goalkeepers will often pull off strings of saves in quick succession. However, they are just as prone to being utterly useless against and completely misjudging many shots from long range, making trying to focus on build up play pointless. Players may as well just shoot whenever they can. Meanwhile, the one-on-one matches have a different problem in that players can readily get the AI stuck in a cycle where they can pile on goals, and scoring ten-plus goals becomes a trivial matter.

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Soccer Story is the tale of a young protagonist (with your choice of gender, though there are only two options) living in a world where soccer, and even any mention of soccer, is banned. Think of the town from Footloose, only taken to the extreme of having mysterious agents around enforcing the rule with “no soccer allowed” signs hung up all over the place. This is because a year prior to the beginning of their story, a tournament ended in a “calamity” that led to people dying, and now, the only sport allowed to be played must be sanctioned directly by Soccer Inc. The protagonist’s life at home with their mother is suddenly interrupted by the appearance of a magical soccer ball that comes crashing through their window, only to zip back out again and lead them to follow the ball back to the local soccer pitch. Inspired to combat the evil Sports Fascism by their magical new toy, the hero recruits a team to restart their local soccer league, and along the way, they’ll play against teams of toddlers, the elderly, and even sharks. In between matches, the player is given a Zelda-style overworld to explore and complete side quests, rendered in a very cool voxel style that I immediately fell in love with. Unlike the massive blocky style of Minecraft.

Here the whole world is constructed out of basically Lego bricks, combined with pixel elements to create an appealing new-retro style, unlike any game I’ve seen before. The problem here, though, is that this part of the game – the actual RPG bit – is fairly weak. The world is fun to explore at first, but once you realize that every single quest is basically just a hunt through the world for targets, collectibles, or goals, it becomes more of a chore than a highlight. It doesn’t help that the game presents you with several of these quests right off the bat, which do have the benefit of teaching you the basics of the game, but also make for an incredibly slow and pretty boring start. It’ll likely be an hour before you reach your first match, and that hour will be spent running in frustrated circles, trying to hunt down targets in the environment. The other aspect that doesn’t help is that, for an RPG, Soccer Story lacks characters to latch onto. The lack of character portraits and meaningful dialogue means that your team is effectively made of cardboard cutouts with roles stamped onto them, and you only interact with them while playing matches. Further, in between those matches, if they have anything to say to you, it will more than likely just be to give you another quest to hunt down goals in the environment.

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Which is made even more annoying by a lack of fast travel. Though, once you do make it to the pitch, the actual game of soccer ends up being quite fun, if not a little barebones. It took me several tries on the first major match to really get the hang of the controls – one thing the game doesn’t tell you is that there’s a button you’re supposed to press to cycle through which teammate you’re actively controlling – but the four-minute matches are brief enough that the game remains exhilarating. Still, expect to lose several times before the controls click with you. Admittedly, even now, I’m still not sure I got there. For every awesome moment where you get two goals in thirty seconds, there are several where you aren’t sure what’s supposed to happen or feel cheated out of possession of the ball. At the beginning of this review, I was trying not to compare this game to Dodgeball Academia. It takes a long time to develop an indie game, and I have little evidence that the two have anything to do with each other. But it’s hard not to look at these two games next to each other and see that the things I really adored about one are mostly absent from the other. There’s definitely an enjoyable experience to be had with Soccer Story, but you’ll need to have a high tolerance for jank to find enjoyment in it.Avaria Chains of Lust

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