#Conduct together multiplayer series#

By depressing the corresponding button, you can start and stop the relevant train, or switch the junction. Each train, or junction, is labelled with a specific value, such as X. Using these button bindings, you need to guide your trains to the stations, set the tracks so that your trains don’t collide and beware of environmental hazards such as busy traffic on level crossings or in tunnels. It works with a simple style of control-mapping that binds the junctions to the directional pad and the trains to the A, B, X and Y keys. However, you can control the start and stop functions of the trains, as well as operate the junctions that allow each train to switch tracks. Along these tracks, a number of trains traverse automatically around the terrain. However, do not be put off by this, as what we have here is an addictive and very clever little game one that contains all of the charm of controlling your very own train set.Įach of the levels contain a variety of tracks and landscapes. It sounds a simple premise and on paper, or least through the presentation of screenshots, it certainly looks that way with its colourful and inviting aesthetic but looks can be deceiving and in reality, this is a train ride that’ll soon have you derailed with it fiendishly difficult level designs.

#Conduct together multiplayer series#

However, through a series of upgrades and the addition of a multiplayer element, the original title has now evolved into Conduct TOGETHER!, an action-puzzler that involves guiding a series of trains around a variety of tracks, picking up and dropping off passengers, as well as avoiding a myriad of obstacles in order to complete your task in as fast a time as possible. Racing cars have been covered with Scalextric and Micro Machines, yet toy trains has largely been a missed opportunity, at least until now, as Conduct TOGETHER! now chugs a release and pulls into the station of the Nintendo Switch.ĭeveloped and produced by Northplay, this is a title that originally started life on mobile platforms and was entitled Conduct This. Despite its charm, or popularity, it’s a concept that has largely been ignored in a video format.

Whatever its premise, you can’t deny that there is a definite charm in watching miniature locomotives trundle around the tracks. This is never more prevalent with the creative elements of building and running your very own train set whether it be a basic oval track or a more elaborate set-up that is housed within the attic and boasts a series of locomotives, junctions, sceneries and landscapes. There’s always been a deep-rooted fascination with young boys and trains although the same can also be said for some girls too and even adults too.