Kabuto Park captures the fleeting joy of summer vacation

A screenshot from the video game Kabuto Park.

There are a lot of games that remind me of summer – hot days in the backseat with a copy of Dragon Warrior III, cooling off in the basement while grinding Gran Turismo races – but there aren’t a lot of games that are actually about summer. That’s part of what makes Kabuto Park so charming. It’s a game that manages to not only capture the fleeting moments of a childhood summer, but also cram a Pokémon-style adventure into a game that lasts only a few hours.

Kabuto Park actually launched last year on PC, but it’s available now on both Xbox and the Switch, the latter being probably the ideal platform for it. It takes place over the course of a …

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