{"id":479580,"date":"2025-11-12T23:39:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T23:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wheres-our-windjammers-2-review\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T23:39:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T23:39:50","slug":"wheres-our-windjammers-2-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/wheres-our-windjammers-2-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;s Our Windjammers 2 Review?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/wheres-our-windjammers-2-review.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\" typeof=\"Image\" class=\"image-style-body-default\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Windjammers 2 launched today, giving \u201890s arcade fans or those who discovered the game via the 2018 remaster a new arena to lob discs at each other. My review is currently in progress, but since the online mode didn\u2019t go live until today, I\u2019ll need time to test that out in a live environment before giving my complete assessment. In the meantime, here are my impressions so far.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The good news: playing Windjammers is still very fun. For those unfamiliar, two players face off in what\u2019s essentially a hybrid of tennis and air hockey. You try to toss the disc past your opponent to score in their goal, but you can also earn points if the disc touches their court. The game sports a fighting game caliber of depth thanks to many variations of disc throws. The best matches are fast-paced, back-and-forth exchanges of flashy trick shots and ricocheting discs until someone slips up.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The gameplay feels snappy and responsive, meaning any time I blew a save was entirely on me. That\u2019s good because Windjammer 2\u2019s CPU opponents are tough, even on Easy difficulty. I choked down several bowls of L\u2019s before I finally conquered its otherwise brief arcade mode. The presentation and soundtrack are appropriately \u201890s (in a good way), and the multi-cultural roster characters, each with speed\/strength differences, harken to Street Fighter\u2019s worldly appeal, granted they aren\u2019t as memorable. The various arenas are enjoyable playgrounds, with some sporting small but meaningful gimmicks such as a roulette-style scoring system and those with blockers that can alter shot trajectory.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s good that the core game is fun because that\u2019s about all Windjammers 2 has to offer. The package is barebones, featuring arcade, online, and two-player versus modes. I\u2019m most disappointed by the tutorial, which consists of a simple slideshow of commands. As I noted earlier, Windjammer\u2019s gameplay is deep and not unlike a fighting game. That genre has come a long way in how it onboards players to its systems, with Mortal Kombat 11 standing as a shining example. I wish Windjammers 2 had more in-depth lessons or a dedicated training mode to help me better understand why I would want to spike the disc instead of throwing it because staring at several slides of button commands isn\u2019t ideal for retention. It\u2019s also egregious that you can\u2019t access the move list in the pause menu. If you forget how to perform a maneuver during a match, you have to return to the main menu for a refresher.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll see how the online shapes up, but Windjammers 2 seems aimed at existing diehards who simply want to throw discs without any extra frills. That\u2019s fun for a while, but there may not be enough meat on the bones to retain newcomers or even fans for the long haul.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2022\/01\/20\/wheres-our-windjammers-2-review\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windjammers 2 launched today, giving \u201890s arcade fans or those who discovered the game via the 2018 remaster a new arena to lob discs at each other. My review is currently in progress, but since the online mode didn\u2019t go live until today, I\u2019ll need time to test that out in a live environment before giving my complete assessment. In the meantime, here are my impressions so far.\u00a0 The good news: playing Windjammers is still very fun. For those unfamiliar, two players face off in what\u2019s essentially a hybrid of tennis and air hockey. You try to toss the disc past your opponent to score in their goal, but you can also earn points if the disc touches their court. 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