I can appreciate the idea behind Pilotwings, but the execution is a bit shit. The game feels more like it was designed to showcase the graphical capabilities of the SNES than to actually be all that fun, but like, F-Zero does a great job at the fake 3D thing while being a ton of fun. A lot of the issue comes with depth, because everything is still 2D regardless of how it looks, so it feels a bit inconsistent. There are five categories of flight to work with and they all feel a bit like a minigame. None feel that bad, but none feel all that great. I'm sure this was cool shit in 1991, but it's nearly 30 years old at this point, and it's painfully obvious. 2/6

Reviewed on Nov 09, 2021


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