Golden Force

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  • Summary: Defeat forces of evil along with Gutz, Spina, Drago, and Elder! Have some fun with their individual skills and movesets in a journey through Muscle Island.

    The King of Demons set his sights on Muscle Island, a paradisaical and peaceful place where it’s good to live. This evil person    Defeat forces of evil along with Gutz, Spina, Drago, and Elder! Have some fun with their individual skills and movesets in a journey through Muscle Island.

    The King of Demons set his sights on Muscle Island, a paradisaical and peaceful place where it’s good to live. This evil person settled his army and persecutes the population with the help of his generals.

    Wasting their last coins in the taverns of the island, mercenaries from the feared GOLDEN FORCE enjoy their last moments of vacation when they receive a new contract: beat down this new evil in order to take back the mountain of gold in his possession.

    When there is gold and a promise of great battles, you can count on the GOLDEN FORCE to save your skin!    … Expand
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 22
  3. Negative: 2 out of 22
  1. Pure Nintendo
    Feb 1, 2021
    90
    Golden Force doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but it does the nearly-impossible by offering a truly 16-bit experience, from sprite-based visuals to the tough-as-nails difficulty. If Gunstar Heroes copulated with Rocket Knight Adventures, Golden Force would be its beautiful brood. Just don’t go digging for the easy mode, it simply doesn’t exist.
  2. God is a Geek
    Jan 19, 2021
    80
    Golden Force is a fun and varied 2d action game, but you'll need a lot of patience to overcome its challenging difficulty.
  3. Jeuxvideo.com
    Apr 30, 2021
    80
    It goes without saying that Golden Force does not revolutionize the platform action game in any way, it nevertheless offers a beautiful homecoming, which is sure to satisfy the most nostalgic and platformer lovers.
  4. Digital Chumps
    Jan 26, 2021
    65
    Golden Force is a fun, retro, side-scrolling experience not for the faint of heart. Full of challenging battles and pixelated fun, this run-n-gun will keep you on your toes.
  5. GamingTrend
    Apr 5, 2021
    65
    There’s a good game in here somewhere and I really want it to break the surface, but performance issues and questionable difficulty are holding down a great game.
  6. Eurogamer Italy
    Feb 8, 2021
    60
    Golden Force is a platform for hardcore and tenacious gamers. It has good pixel-art and a powerful soundtrack. It is fun but some choices of game design are far from perfect. Its bad camera and its artificial difficulty can discourage many players.
  7. Game Rant
    Jan 19, 2021
    20
    Golden Force makes too many missteps to recommend it, especially on the Nintendo Switch. It's entirely possible that other versions of the game run better, as was the case with Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night when it first released, but that remains to be seen. But even if the game ran perfectly, Golden Force would still be saddled with an unrewarding progression system and frustrating level design meant to bombard players with cheap deaths. Those looking for their retro gaming fix should look elsewhere.

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  1. Demoli
    Jan 29, 2021
    5
    Golden Force has a number of qualities that are nice, but falls short in many places and with with failings is definitely not worth the fullGolden Force has a number of qualities that are nice, but falls short in many places and with with failings is definitely not worth the full price set for the game. It's made to be a difficult game, but does so in many terrible ways. You will likely take hits from very cheap mechanics like an enemy spawning from right under you, moving into an enemy from your combo and taking damage from touching them, or some few attacks that just don't telegraph properly. Level design could be improved as well with plentiful leaps of faith and some death pits that the game leads you into, sometimes even with coins leading to them. Performance also takes a hit when lots of coins are on screen or being collected or large numbers of enemies. Despite these flaws I've yet to find it so difficult that a bit of perseverance can't overcome it but it never feels good to die from cheap hits.

    Tl;dr cheap difficulty from attacks and level design with some decent gameplay underneath. Not worth the near the full price in my opinion, wait for sale or pass.    … Expand
  2. Naetle
    Oct 25, 2022
    2
    The game is looks nice however it does have a lot of flaws that prevent the enjoyability of the gameplay

    The controls are way imprecise, in    The game is looks nice however it does have a lot of flaws that prevent the enjoyability of the gameplay

    The controls are way imprecise, in Boss fights the game expects that you dodge and attack with a good timing however the controls are sub-par and you will get frustraded because 8 of 10 deaths it will be the controls fault, also the game does not have good hit-boxes so yeah, it is pretty frustruating when you keep dying and dying because of either the bad hit-boxes or the sub-par controllers.

    This game is a platformer however there are some segments in almost all levels in where the screen keeps static and you will need to fight against hordes of enemies, this does not feel nice and it only slowdown the game pace because you need several strikes in order to defeat some of the bigger monsters.    … Expand

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