I wrote an article about the 3 games and just how good they are. Imo, they’re extremely underrated. I really wanna play more games similar to it but I can’t find much in the way of isometric collectathons(?) at all. Looking for any suggestions. Apologies if this isn’t the right spot. GBA is retro right?

Imo, the 3 games are extremely underrated in the Spyro series and feel like completely different games.

Here’s the article. It explains more specifically what I mean by these games.
Website: https://charinusraps.neocities.org/pages/writing/gamenotes/spyro
Medium: https://medium.com/@charinusraps/spyro-season-of-thunder-7969d3a4dcee
Substack: https://substack.com/home/post/p-144166959

I know there’s the main Spyro games but I’m looking for 2D ones, basically the same deal as the Season games.

  • squipo@mastodon.gamedev.place
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    6 months ago

    @BarrierWithAshes Mobygames has a massive database of games with enough metadata to be a good trick for obscure queries like this. Not perfect (I guess cataloguing metadata on every game ever made is complicated?), but good enough to give some plausible leads if you want to dig a bit. For example I see that there’s a Banjo Kazooie GBA game that looks like it might be up your alley.

    Link to “isometric platformers”, since it doesn’t seem to have a collectathon genre tag:

    https://www.mobygames.com/game/genre:isometric/genre:platform/sort:date/page:4/

    • BarrierWithAshes@kbin.socialOP
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      6 months ago

      Man, I’ve never actually used Mobygames aside from seeing it in Google search once in a while. Didn’t know you could do those kinds of searches. Way better than trying to trawl through IGDB. Gonna check this out. Thanks! I already see a few that definitely fit the bill (and all GBA too!)