{"id":1485,"date":"2024-06-27T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/?p=1485"},"modified":"2024-06-27T16:05:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T16:05:49","slug":"hands-on-steamworld-heist-ii-expands-on-a-beloved-3ds-title-but-is-it-what-fans-really-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/2024\/06\/27\/hands-on-steamworld-heist-ii-expands-on-a-beloved-3ds-title-but-is-it-what-fans-really-want\/","title":{"rendered":"Hands On: SteamWorld Heist II Expands On A Beloved 3DS Title, But Is It What Fans Really Want?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sail and strategise.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Is there any genre <strong>SteamWorld<\/strong> is afraid to tackle? Starting life as an RTS in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/dsiware\/steamworld_tower_defense\">SteamWorld Tower Defense<\/a>, Image &amp; Form\u2019s long-running anthology series has been to space, the Wild West and it\u2019s even taken on the form of a fairy tale. And while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds-eshop\/steamworld_dig\">Dig<\/a>, the Metroidvania-style series, is arguably the most popular, many have a soft spot for the 2015 3DS hit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds-eshop\/steamworld_heist\">SteamWorld Heist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Returning to the strategy-esque roots of the franchise, SteamWorld Heist is a side-on turn-based strategy game that takes the unique aesthetic and humour of the SteamWorld series and combines it with gunslinging, bullet-ricocheting action. We loved it, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/steamworld_heist_ultimate_edition\">Ultimate Edition<\/a> on Switch is a no-brainer. Even so, we weren\u2019t expecting to see Heist return, but nine years later, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/steamworld_heist_ii\">SteamWorld Heist II<\/a> is almost here. We got a chance to go hands-on with the PC version of the game at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/tags\/summer-game-fest\">Summer Game Fest<\/a>, and we can already tell this is a well-oiled machine that fans will love, and newcomers can jump straight into, too.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/previews\/hands-on-steamworld-heist-ii-expands-on-a-beloved-3ds-title-but-is-it-what-fans-really-want\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sail and strategise. Is there any genre SteamWorld is afraid to tackle? Starting life as an RTS in SteamWorld Tower Defense, Image &amp; Form\u2019s long-running anthology series has been to space, the Wild West and it\u2019s even taken on the form of a fairy tale. And while Dig, the Metroidvania-style series, is arguably the most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1486,"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions\/1486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littlesturgisrally.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}