General Discussion
Windjammers is the sport of trying to find how far up an opponent’s goal zone you can jam a plastic disc. It’s simple, swing that saucer past the other guy and into the other side and gain points. Accumulate more points until they’re sufficiently humiliated or time runs out, and you win.
Is this a real sport? Not really, but a quick search showed me there is Ultimate Frisbee, which has teams and is played on a big pitch? I've learned so much from Windjammers 2, a delightful arcade game I only wish was better at teaching me about itself.
At a glance, Windjammers 2 looks to be little more than a game of Pong – and in a lot of ways that’s not far off. You frantically move your character around your side of the screen, doing your best at deflecting the frisbee back towards your opponent and scoring points if you manage to snake it past their defenses. But this simple starting point is made a lot more complex by introducing an arsenal of diverse tactics and awesome mind games that draw heavily on the fighting game genre.
Those are the most immediate changes, but the more impactful ones are under the hood. Notably, the game stretches the controls from a simple two-button arcade game to four. Five if you’re feeling sassy. Added to the throw and lob buttons is jump and deflect. Jump allows you to grab the disc out of the air and smash it down to the opponent’s side of the court, whereas deflect does just that, immediately sending the projectile back at the opponent.
Leaning on its arcade roots, Windjammers 2 sticks to three modes, with two simply being a choice of playing online against other players and offline against friends or the AI. Online is the big draw, as human opponents are far more satisfying to face. Arcade is the closest it gets to a singleplayer campaign, chaining together matches and interspersing them with minigames for a change of pace. The minigame where you throw a frisbee for a dog (which gets its own pair of protective sunglasses) is wonderful and hints at the kind of carefree energy the game could've had in spades if it allowed more alternative activities between the intense matches. But it's all pretty barebones, the inverse of its visual excess.
The truly remarkable thing about Windjammers 2 is that any move made against you has a logical counter to it, so I never felt like I was the victim of unfair tactics or an exploit of some kind. If someone is staying back and defending their goal, you can use the drop shot to bunt the frisbee right over their goal and punish them for their babysitting. If someone makes a curve shot that veers just out of your reach you can use your power toss to knock it into the air, giving you time to recover it and mount a counter attack. Instead of raging, losing a match just made me bow my head and consider how I could respond better next time, and that’s the hallmark of an incredibly well-balanced meta.
I also need to point out that Windjammers 2 has the mentality of a fighting game. While you can get by mashing buttons, the real action starts when you gain the ability to read and react better. The potential for high-level action is there, but I wasn’t able to really see or experience it.
Windjammers 2 is a worthy sequel to a retro classic that manages to improve upon the highly competitive arena with new characters, levels, and abilities that make this fighting game version of Pong incredibly addictive. It lacks some key features like a spectator mode or any kind of tutorial to walk new players through all the complexities of combat and makes a limp attempt at telling a story about its characters, but it’s so much fun to play that it’s easy to forgive those whiffs.
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