I honestly can't see how anyone has rated this this highly. Once you get past the charm of the pixelart style there's VERY little gameplay here. Seems only pixelart fans are reviewing this one with hardly anyone critiquing the actual gameplay. I don't let modern games slide on beautiful graphics alone and I won't let this slide on style alone. At it's core it's still supposed to be a game.I honestly can't see how anyone has rated this this highly. Once you get past the charm of the pixelart style there's VERY little gameplay here. Seems only pixelart fans are reviewing this one with hardly anyone critiquing the actual gameplay. I don't let modern games slide on beautiful graphics alone and I won't let this slide on style alone. At it's core it's still supposed to be a game.
The first 15 minutes had my hopes high. I hoped I was seeing a new Monkey Island/Willie Beamish with some action mixed in and humor to keep you entertained. Why let me move stuff if there's never anything hidden under it? Way too few items to interact with. Throwing dog poop into your neighbor's grill did nothing. Throwing dog poop into your other neighbor's pool once again did nothing. NPCs have extremely limited responses. Inventory is laughably small. Massive opportunities wasted to keep me entertained. Once I was 20 screens past leaving my yard I was dead bored. Dodge> run> dodge> 1 shot death> dodge> use item to distract ONE enemy while 3 more bear down on you. No attack, just run run run.... Pointless and ridiculously shallow. Being able to select from music you've picked up would be nice too if you get one you don't like.
It feels like a graphically upgraded NES game but many NES games were deeper than this. I only gave it the 3 for the music and art style, but there needs to be far more game here than just presentation.
Not nostalgic enough to tickle that bone and too shallow to stand with today's games. Indie =/= an excuse to have below phone level gameplay. Sorry, but this was uninstalled within 45 minutes. The boring slog isn't worth it to find out if it gets any better.… Expand
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