{"id":8595,"date":"2023-01-12T15:38:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T14:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/12\/sports-story-review-all-the-charm-of-a-forgotten-snes-classic\/"},"modified":"2023-01-12T15:38:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T14:38:08","slug":"sports-story-review-all-the-charm-of-a-forgotten-snes-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/12\/sports-story-review-all-the-charm-of-a-forgotten-snes-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports Story review \u2013 all the charm of a forgotten SNES classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nintendo Switch; Sidebar Games<\/strong><br \/>The long-awaited follow-up to Golf Story is rough but characterful, with plenty of retro warmth<\/p>\n<p>Like developer Sidebar\u2019s 2017 cult triumph Golf Story, Sport Story feels like an exceptional title from the Super Nintendo era. You\u2019re holidaying on a bright, retro-flavoured, pixelated island with your golf coach and friends. The aesthetic isn\u2019t far from a handheld Pok\u00e9mon or Zelda, immediately inviting and comfortable to play around in.<\/p>\n<p>In this colourful, clever RPG, rather than using swords and sorcery to forge our way through a fantasy world, we play in resort towns populated by athletes who can teach us new sports \u2013 tennis, BMX, cricket, football. There are, of course, also malign forces at work: a menacing corporation buying up local greenways, and a sort of athletic mafia that hampers the player\u2019s journey. What begins as a relaxing vacation with sunny beaches and glitzy malls soon takes us into dark silver mines full of puzzles to solve and citizens to help.<\/p>\n<p>Sports Story is out now; \u00a312.80<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2023\/jan\/12\/sports-story-review-all-the-charm-of-a-forgotten-snes-classic\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8f51d8ac5c70f6dfd39015c2cce98d38c0e0f685\/0_0_1800_1080\/master\/1800.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=6b537fa633e299d1d717365807efa2e6\" title=\"Sports Story review \u2013 all the charm of a forgotten SNES classic\" \/>Nintendo Switch; Sidebar GamesThe long-awaited follow-up to Golf Story is rough but characterful, with plenty of retro warmth<br \/>\nLike developer Sidebar\u2019s 2017 cult triumph Golf Story, Sport Story feels like an exceptional title from the Super Nintendo era. You\u2019re holidaying on a bright, retro-flavoured, pixelated island with your golf coach and friends. The aesthetic isn\u2019t far from a handheld Pok\u00e9mon or Zelda, immediately inviting and comfortable to play around in.<br \/>\nIn this colourful, clever RPG, rather than using swords and sorcery to forge our way through a fantasy world, we play in resort towns populated by athletes who can teach us new sports \u2013 tennis, BMX, cricket, football. There are, of course, also malign forces at work: a menacing corporation buying up local greenways, and a sort of athletic mafia that hampers the player\u2019s journey. What begins as a relaxing vacation with sunny beaches and glitzy malls soon takes us into dark silver mines full of puzzles to solve and citizens to help.<br \/>\nSports Story is out now; \u00a312.80 Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo Switch; Sidebar GamesThe long-awaited follow-up to Golf Story is rough but characterful, with plenty of retro warmth Like developer Sidebar\u2019s 2017 cult triumph Golf Story, Sport Story feels like an exceptional title from the Super Nintendo era. You\u2019re holidaying on a bright, retro-flavoured, pixelated island with your golf coach and friends. The aesthetic isn\u2019t &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/12\/sports-story-review-all-the-charm-of-a-forgotten-snes-classic\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sports Story review \u2013 all the charm of a forgotten SNES classic<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8595"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}