Extra Coin is a narrative side-scrolling thriller game mixing sports, set in a virtual social network called The Arcade, where the entire population has devoted their lives. It's a hard story about revenge, failure, resistance, and hiding behind appearances.
Extra Coin lives within a paradox: to convey as faithfully as possible the idea that virtual mechanisms can induce users to the eternal repetition of completely flat loops, the game ends up putting the player in this situation without being able to provide him with a truly motivating objective.
Extra Coin explores a tale where you have to choose between reality or a dream. It tackles some heavy themes, but it encapsulates them well in this charming pixelated adventure.
In its coming and going of quotes and pop inspirations, Extra Coin flows for a variable number of hours.
Extra Coin is a heartfelt little tale set over a gorgeously colourful video gamey backdrop, and offers an addicting duelling game system that you can play continuously without getting bored. The art direction is beautifully detailed and the potential of the virtual reality of the Arcade is immense, but it seems to have held back on exploring its concept...
