![]() With kickin’ beats that will send you back to the future.Narita Boy – retro graphics have never seemed so stylish (pic: Team17) Sounds of the retro-grade-times - Feel fresh waves of synth wash over you while travelling the Digital Kingdom. The latest indie game from Team17 is one of the best Metroidvanias of recent years and a thrilling homage to 8-bit gaming.Ī consciously retro Metroidvania style game created by a tiny, debutant indie studio in Barcelona may not sound like the most essential of purchases, at least on paper. But Narita Boy is worthy of your attention. It has an indefinable, endearing spark which elevates it way above the indie-landfill that often characterises such games and manages to be both compellingly addictive and surprisingly thought-provoking. Narita Boy may have been created by a tiny team, but that team knows the importance of attention to detail. Take its graphics, for example: they are a loving tribute to games from the 8-bit era, complete with rampant pixelation and flashes of lurid primary-colour palettes. But on top of that, developer Studio Koba has added a filter effect that slightly distorts the edges of the screen and adds fake vertical hold artefacts, creating the impression that you’re playing it on an old cathode ray television. ![]() It’s a simple ruse which could easily have been overdone but isn’t and will induce a warm glow in anyone who recalls the days before screens were universally flat. Once in the game world, you are the eponymous Narita Boy, essentially an 8-bit superhero (the game jokes about how he is composed of ‘less than 20 pixels’). Narita Boy is the only individual who can wield the legendary Techno-sword, which harnesses the power of the red, yellow, and blue Trichroma.įrom the off, as Narita Boy, you feel like a superhero: the denizens of the Digital Kingdom have been waiting for you to show up to liberate them from the havoc caused by the Stallions, HIM’s agents who have been laying waste to their world.
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