Digidrive

Digidrive
Developer	Q-Games
Publisher	Nintendo
Series	bit Generations Art Style
Platforms	Game Boy Advance Nintendo DSi
Release	Game Boy Advance JP: July 13, 2006 DSiWare PAL: October 2, 2009 JP: November 4, 2009 NA: November 16, 2009
Genre	Puzzle
Mode	Single-player

Digidrive, released in PAL territories as Intersect, is a 2006 puzzle video game developed by Q-Games and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance. It is the only game in the bit Generations series to not be developed by Skip Ltd. It was later re-released for the Nintendo DSi's DSiWare digital distribution service as part of the Art Style series, where it was released outside Japan for the first time.

The inspiration came from the police direction of the floats during the Gion Festival in Kyoto. ^[1]

Gameplay

The objective of the game is to propel the disc-shaped corevto as many meters as possible before the piston collides into the core and ends the game. The player must direct up to three different varieties of "vehicle," each of a different color, into one of four different lanes. If five of the same vehicle fill up the same lane, a triangle will appear and the lane will change to the same color as the type of vehicle that entered this lane.

Once the player get all five cars of the same color in all four directions, it results in an overdrive, where they can send vehicles of their color in the direction of that color before the color in that direction goes away, but once the vehicle goes in the right direction, it fills that direction up. Overdrive ends when either a vehicle goes in the direction that does not match the color, or if a direction did not have a vehicle of that color in that direction in the last few seconds.

Reception

Reception

Aggregate score

Aggregator	Score
Metacritic	83/100 [2]

Review score

Publication	Score
Nintendo Life	9/10 [3]

Digidrive has received a score of 83/100 on Metacritic based on 6 reviews, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. ^[2] James Newton of Nintendo Life gave the game a 9/10 score, praising its innovative and addicting gameplay. ^[3]

References

1. Harris, Craig (September 7, 2006). "Star Fox Command Interview". IGN . Archived from the original on May 26, 2023. Retrieved November 3, 2019. GN: Just as an aside, do you think the US will ever see your GBA game Digidrive in any form?[...] IGN: How did it come about? Cuthbert: Basically from the Kyto[ sic ] Gion Festival. [...] They get the police to guide the floats through the streets, and watching the police guide them all gave us the idea for it. - Updated May 17, 2012
2. "Art Style: DIGIDRIVE for DS Reviews". Metacritic . Retrieved November 28, 2017.
3. Newton, James (October 4, 2009). "Art Style: INTERSECT Review - DSiWare". Nintendo Life. Archived from the original on December 1, 2017. Retrieved November 28, 2017.