Parcel Corps Blends Crazy Taxi, Jet Set Radio

Parcel Corps Blends Crazy Taxi, Jet Set Radio

From Hardcore Gamer (Written by Jeremy Peeples) on | OpenCritic

Spiritual successors have become a bigger part of gaming over the past decade, with games like Mighty Gunvolt Burst offering up Mega Man-like experience, Bloodstained offering up a variety of Castlevania and Metroidvania gameplay, Taxi Chaos offering up something akin to Crazy Taxi and Bomb Rush Cyberfunk paying homage to Jet Set Radio with a darker tale. One thing we have not seen over the years is something that blends courier work with a Crazy Taxi-style time limit and a Jet Set style of flair. It's an interesting blend because the two sub-genres go well together and yet haven't been combined until now. Even a more regular courier-style game hasn't been something we've seen much of beyond Courier Crisis on the PS1 and Saturn nearly 30 years ago.

Parcel Corps allows you to take on the role of a gig worker out to deliver whatever package is needed to go where, with a Crazy Taxi-style time limit but with a more expansive set of Jet Set Radio-style tricks. One big improvement here versus both CT and Jet Set is that you have a lot more control over your tricks and vehicle movement. The bike-centric gameplay...