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Taito Milestones 2 Review (Nintendo Switch OLED)

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For this Taito Milestones 2 Review, After the success of last year’s release, TAITO Milestones, ININ has released its highly requested follow-up. The collection includes 10 classic Taito arcade games from the 1980s to early ’90s, such as “Metal Black”, “Darius II”, and “The New Zealand Story”.

Taito Milestones 2 Review Pros:

  • Decent graphics.
  • 803MB download size.
  • All games are the Arcade Archives versions.
  • Ten games in one –
    • The New Zealand Story
    • Darius 2
    • Dinorex
    • Gun Frontier
    • Metal Black
    • Kiki KaiKai
    • Ben Bero Beh
    • Solitary Fighter
    • Liquid Kids
    • The Legend Of Kage
  • Can quit back to the game select screen.
  • The gameplay varies from #shmups to platformer to beat ’em ups.
  • Display settings – display frame, display position, display size, display direction, wallpaper, and screen filter.
  • Every game can be individually tweaked for game and display settings.
  • Game settings – lives, difficulty, extend, continues, screen inversion, and preference settings.
  • You can rebind controls and set up autofire/attack in each game.
  • A manual that is a mix of images and text for each game.
  • Online leaderboards for each game with filters.
  • At any time you can bring up the menu for settings.
  • Handy reset game menu option.
  • Interrupt save lets you save whenever you want but the game will carry on from there meaning it’s a state save.
  • Local drop-in in drop-out multiplayer support.
  • Great little nostalgic collection.
  • It is very surprising how much the gameplay for each game still holds up.
  • Has a collection that for the average gamer will have some classics whilst also introducing new titles.

Taito Milestones 2 Review Cons:

  • No achievements or accolades system.
  • The main menu is just a thumbnail for each game and is very basic and plain.
  • Slight hitches as you change games or they first boot up, not all the time but sometimes.
  • Doesn’t have online multiplayer support.
  • You have to change the settings in each game for display and audio which is a pain.
  • They don’t have any history or scans of the original release like Boxart.
  • All the new stuff in these games is just accessibility and tweaking the difficulty.
  • No way to highlight games or change the order of them on the main menu.

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Taito Milestones 2:

Official website.

Developer: Taito

Publisher: United Games

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Nintendo

  • 8/10
    Graphics - 8/10
  • 8/10
    Sound - 8/10
  • 7/10
    Accessibility - 7/10
  • 7/10
    Length - 7/10
  • 8/10
    Fun Factor - 8/10
7.6/10

Summary

The Arcade Archives collection includes ten games, with gameplay varying from shoot ’em ups to platformers to beat ’em ups. Each game can be individually tweaked for game and display settings, and the collection features online leaderboards, local drop-in drop-out multiplayer support, and a handy reset game menu option. The collection is nostalgic and the gameplay for each game still holds up. However, there are some limitations, such as the lack of online multiplayer support, the need to change settings in each game individually, and the absence of any history or scans of the original release like Boxart. Overall, it’s a great little collection that introduces new titles while also including some classics. Overall this makes the collection just as good if not better than the last one.

Jim Smale

Gaming since the Atari 2600, I enjoy the weirdness in games counting Densha De Go and RC De Go as my favourite titles of all time. I prefer gaming of old where buying games from a shop was a thing, Being social in person was a thing. Join me as I attempt to adapt to this new digital age!