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.
What starts as a charming little retro pixel art game quickly falls apart due to seemingly endless walls of text and a drip-fed tutorial style. The music is great, but for the first 30 minutes it felt like the same song was on loop. The game gives you objectives, but without a map—and if you’re not paying close attention to the text thrown at you—they mean nothing. Deaths feel meaningless, the controls are floaty and inconsistent. I saw this game becoming frustrating, so after 30 minutes, I called it quits.
My playtime 5 hours 57 minutes...
6 of 5 must play.
5 of 5 great story great gameplay.
4 of 5 great story average gameplay.
3 of 5 average story great gameplay.
2 of 5 play only if it's your favorite genre.
1 of 5 play if you have nothing better to do.
0 of 5 play if you're a masochist.
-1 of 5 avoid.
Narita Boy score is 0 of 5.
The game itself has some interesting qualities but overall it's not that good and has too many cons for me to give it a positive rating.
Overall it's an interesting approach to a Tron like metroidvania game however there's simply too many issues and negative aspects to the game for me to really say i'd play it through multiple times or that i'd recommend it to others.
Unfortunately due to GOG's limited review section, i cannot include my detailed review but it's up on the steam game page.
