Posted on: March 24, 2020

jinxvorheeze

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A Great New Wonder Boy Title

Monster Boy tells the story of a town whose inhabitants have been magically turned into animals by the uncle of our protagonist. It is your quest to assemble the animal orbs, gain their power, and use it to stop your uncle Nabu. The game is a solid Metroidvania title, where each new ability unlocks secrets or new pathways in old areas. Each area in Monster Boy is a unique biome with its own enemies and scenery. As you explore these areas you will come across fast-travel locations making it easier to move between them; and eventually you find a wand which allows you to fast travel at any time. The bosses are pretty straightforward. Once you get the wind power you can steamroll just about any boss that gets in your way; with the exception of the Lion boss since it has a specific method to defeating it. Fire, Wind, Lightning, Boomerang, Bomb; these are some of the magic powers you will gain to solve puzzles and defeat enemies. Your equipment can also give you unique powers, such as the ability to double-jump, glide, or walk on water/lava. Exploring as you gain new abilities is typically met with upgrade materials or increases to your abilities use count; this is similar to Zelda titles where you increase your heart count, or increase the amount of bombs you can hold. The six animal forms include: Lion, Dragon, Frog, Pig, Snake, and Human. Each one has a specific ability that will help you solve puzzles or traverse new ground. The puzzles can seem obtuse, but almost every puzzle I found spelled out what I was supposed to do using hints (which can be found using the pig). I see a lot of people say the puzzles are confusing, but I have yet to come across one where I needed trial and error to solve it. The rotation puzzles are the most obscure, and they only require you to think semi-logically for a second. Monster Boy is a fun throwback to the original series, while taking chances to bring something new to the franchise. This one easily stands on its own.

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Posted on: May 3, 2020

francesc_1

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Love the 90's feel of the game

Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom is beautiful. The visual graphics, animations and atmosphere remind me a lot of classic animes from the 90's. The soundtrack provokes me the same effect, is just wonderful. I'm surprised how well animated the game is, and how good the gameplay is too. The gameplay is a mix of platforming, action and adventure, with intuitive puzzles here and there. You change forms between various species of animals and the human form. And the moveset of each animal form changes too. If you plan to collect everything ( for example the parts of a special golden armor), some areas can be tricky and require a bit of patience (in some cases) but nothing very hard or impossible (so far). If you enjoyed 90's animes in 2D, you're going to love it.

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Posted on: December 29, 2020

jps092768

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It´s looking good, but its not perfect!

This game looks good and has a really good soundtrack inside, the graphics are still good, but the game play lacks... the control is not good and a few of bugs to change or use a thing in the game! Overall, it´s good but not perfect to have fun...

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Posted on: June 30, 2024

Jorge3596

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Spiele: 330 Rezensionen: 26

A summary of the other reviews

-This game is exactly what they say it is. It starts off really easy, but the volcano zone has no business having that spike in difficulty. I even thought "maybe I´m missing some item to progress more easily". After 2 hours exploring, I found them ... well deep in the volcano zone after 20 deaths. -Shileds are useless, their hit area is way too small to be effective 80% of the times. -You´ll find yourself watching walkthroughs to solve some of the puzzles. -Some areas/puzzles require precision-platformer controlls... without being designed for it (kind of like Guacamelee: precision platformer with beat-em-all controlls. If you hated that, don´t try this, and viceversa). I rated it highly because I knew what I was getting into and out of respect for the saga. Not a bad game, it just lures you into thinking it´d be easier than it really is.

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Posted on: April 1, 2020

Fuzzybeard1

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Good experience with some flaws

I overall had a good time being someone that's played a couple of metroidvania's. Platforming and combat mostly hits that sweet spot of challenging yet not impossble. Punishing carelessness when you have to be more percise. The puzzles were satisfactory enough to change things up. They require you to think a bit more compared to other metroidvania's but not in a bad way for my tastes. There were a couple that take longer than they should due to poor communicating on what your to do, or simple trial and error where the timing has to be pixel perfect and with perfect timing. Which does lead to frustrating moments. Exploration checks off all the boxes, you search for health, magic, etc. With a nice armor upgrade system that addes just the right amount of depth for this kind of game. Best of all the backtracking is not a massive pain that plagues others in the genre. Story was nothing special, its just satisfactory enough to somewhat keep you going. It didn't really get any interesting until say a little more than half way through. But if your someone like me that's played a lot of story driven games you already know what's coming. Character's possess their usual unique quirks. Some you just want to smash, others are the standard likable "Insert character type here". With really the uncle being anything that can kind of stick to your mind. It is a decent length with nice clean graphics, mostly smooth animations, with cartoon aesthetic. The soundtrack to match. Each track doesn't get old and fits the theme of each area nicely. A overall good production quality that helps it stand out from the crowd. Also nice to not have yet another pixel platformer. Overall I'd give it a 8/10. It checks off the boxes for a good platformer in the metroidvania genre. Some hickups mostly due to design issues. It'll give your standard platformer fan some much needed quality content.

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