StoryFlashback to the 80s. The Creator, a genius of his time, creates a video game console called Narita One with its flagship title being a game called Narita Boy.
Narita Boy becomes a tremendous hit! Copies of cartridges are flying off physical shelves worldwide. Within weeks Narita Boy...
Flashback to the 80s. The Creator, a genius of his time, creates a video game console called Narita One with its flagship title being a game called Narita Boy.
Narita Boy becomes a tremendous hit! Copies of cartridges are flying off physical shelves worldwide. Within weeks Narita Boy is the best-selling video game of all time, critically acclaimed for its power-fantasy wielding the Techno-sword and taking players on a journey like no other.
Meanwhile, inside the binary code, the digital realm connects with reality. Him has returned and deleted The Creator’s memories. Supervisor program, Motherboard, and her agents have activated the Narita Boy protocol.
The Stallions are coming, and the Digital Kingdom needs a hero.
The Game
Become symphonic in Narita Boy! A radical action-adventure as a legendary pixel hero trapped as a mere echo within the Digital Kingdom. Discover the mysteries behind the Techno-sword, lock swords with the corrupt and tainted Stallions. Save the world!
Pixel perfectionist – The shining example of a perfectionist at work. Experience the visuals of a retro-era brought to life with hand-drawn animations.
Explore the mysteries of the Digital Kingdom – Venture up, down, left, and right to discover the darkest depths of the broken binary code in this never-ending story*.
Max out the Trichroma – Equipped with the only weapon able to defeat the Stallion threat, take the Techno-sword and plunge it into the digital hearts of your enemies. Do not let this empire strike back, be the true blade runner.
Diehard enemies – Face foes only imagined from your darkest fever-dreams!
Show those bosses the bytes – Face-off against tons of totally radical and awesome bosses. Become the boss terminator, by overcoming the deadly Crab, DragonBot, Black Rainbow, and so much more!
Sounds of the retro-grade-times - Feel fresh waves of synth wash over you while travelling the Digital Kingdom. With kickin’ beats that will send you back to the future.
The game LOOKS amazing and sounds AMAZING!
But too bad: The execution is horrible. The predetermined controls are not so good, keys can not be remapped and the game responds just slugish, slow which is an absolute fun killer for this kind of game, unfortunately. It just does not work properly.
As I've said in my reviews before, I don't blame devs for this as they likely do not know that unity the engine puts these there when they make the games. Still its something people should know
...of my life.
Yup, that's should be it.
I thought a little bit about how to 'describe' Narita boy, and while descriptive capabilities I don't think to lack, on this subject I always fall short on words.
For inspiration, I read the other reviews, and while I understand their opinion, I think most miss the point.
Narita boy is what I called not a videogame, but a fable. there is only one other game (two in fact, but one is the sequel of the other, so It doesn't count) I gave that definition, and like Narita boy, It's a masterpiece (if you are wondering, it's Twinsen: LBA 1 & 2).
Perhaps a little more mature, but still It manages to transport you not just into another world, but another time, another... feeling.
I could spend time describing the presentation, the music (which is, literally, one of the greatest you'll ever hear in the industry. Something that puts 'Symphony of the night' to shame), the graphics, the story (simple but deeply profound), the gameplay (perhaps the only feature with some negligible downsides)... but I won't.
I am a fan, sure, but even as a fan I tell you:
Play it.
Live the journey.
This game had me really intrigued, but jumping and landing on platforms is so annoyingly difficult, that I just stopped after falling into a pit the 20 time.