Each stage in arcade mode consists of a series of stops on a line.
There’s a strictness that suggests a pedantic simulation, but Densha de Go!! is absolutely a game before it’s a sim. Just look away when you pull into the stations full of blurry, mushy, phone-staring people. The Switch admirably reproduces the beautiful train’s-eye-views of Tokyo – subdued tracks and the behinds of buildings – and all the sounds of the daily commute. And it’s 2017’s “Densha de GO!!” that this latest outing is based on. The 20 th anniversary arcade revival had a giant booth, triple-screen panorama, behind-driver commuter simulation window and, most impressively, a second exclamation mark in the title. So, in a way, by letting you drive the train, Densha de GO!! lifts you up above life itself, to touch the very workings of the universe. You are crushed into a gel of compacted bodies oozing out of the doors at each station and, to get to work, must concede your agency and literally go with the flow. It has never been translated to English but has regularly garnered international attention, perhaps because it looks as bizarre as it does intuitive: you just drive a train.īut the Tokyo commute is special. It has since hit just about every console, often with an expensive dedicated controller mainly comprising two levers. But let’s fill in the blanks.ĭensha de Go! is a Japanese train driving series that started in 1996 as a glorious arcade cabinet featuring a shrunken replica of a real train dashboard. For series fans, nothing else need be said. The eShop trailer for Densha de Go!! Hashirou Yamanote Sen (“Go by train! Drive the Yamanote line”) is just a guy singing “Densha de Go!” repeatedly while trains drive.
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