Tuesday, September 06, 2011

Why didn't somebody tell me Mighty Flip Champs received a PSP port?

While researching today's other post (about Mighty Switch Force's teaser trailer), I discovered that another WayForward-developed title that I've had my eye on for some time, Mighty Flip Champs, was rather stealthily released as a PSP Mini a few months ago.

Surprisingly, said port is supposed to be a pretty good one. "It's a game that, previous to its arrival on PSP, I could only imagine as a DS game," Joystiq's JC Fletcher wrote in a recent review. "But the PSP version turns the vertical 'flipping' horizontal, and puts the two locations on the left and right side of the PSP screen. To my surprise, this arrangement works out just fine! It doesn't feel like an adaptation to a less adequate platform; it just works."



Although I'd love to add Mighty Flip Champs DX to my ever-growing collection of digital PSP games, I'm going to have to hold off on doing so until I actually have some money. Another possibility: I could wait until I buy 3DS and then purchase all three of WayForward's "Mighty" titles (Mighty Flip Champs, Mighty Milky Way and Mighty Switch Force) via that system's eShop. Decisions, decisions.

See also: 'Metroid + Mega Man + Mischief Makers = Mighty Switch Force?'

6 comments:

Viewtiful_Justin said...

Mighty Flip Champs is a fun little game. It's one of the first I got. But...I got stuck rather early on with puzzles that had too many pieces and too few clues as to how to finish them.

Bryan Ochalla said...

Oh, that's never good with puzzle games, is it? If you get stuck too early, you just give up. Devs either need to make the difficultly ramp less steep or offer a way for you to skip stages in such cases, IMO.

RetroKingSimon said...

I've never heard of this one but I like the look of it! :) I love the kind of game that this appears to be :P

Viewtiful_Justin said...

I might actually like to play it more if it was side-by-side, because that seems way more easy for my brain to decode than vertically flipping it...

Bryan Ochalla said...

Me, too, Simon! I especially like the sprites in this one, despite their tiny size :)

Bryan Ochalla said...

Oh, that's interesting, Justin. So, the game actually may be easier/more enjoyable on the PSP than the DSi? Anyway, I'll definitely let you know what I think of it if I ever buy it...