Wonder Boy Returns

He started his career in 1986 and is still on the go, now on PC. Wonder Boy Returns review.

Probably the Wonder Boy title is a little to say anything to the younger generation. It's no coincidence that his career started in the mid-1980s, in 1986. The game developer was responsible for the developer Escape, who created an arcade program for arcade games that was finally released by Sega.

Since then, many waters have been running on the Danube, but Wonde Boy still attracts people. The original arcade version has been announced over 10 platforms over the years, including Commodor 64, mobile devices and Wii. Last time in 2014 he paid tribute to PS4. No wonder, however, that the revival of the franchise was planned and in October 2016 the outcome was born.


FROM THE BASICS
Wonder Boy Returns is, in fact, a remake of the series with very few narratives. A cross-design boy named Tom-Tom, who is about to release his abducted girlfriend, Hatsune Miku tapping Tina, has been given. On the way, we have to fight with the main characters that the Dark King armed with magical powers.

Super Mario Bros inspires a story similar to gameplay, given that the game is more nostalgic than a franchise messiah. Wonder Boy Returns is a sidescroller platformer. That's it. There is no dread in the recipe. It is our job to get from one end of the 40 track to the other while we are avoiding obstacles, opponents and their attacks.

On the way, you can get different power ups like skateboarding, angel or shredding for faster traffic and overhead. Furthermore, we will also have a weapon in the shape of a stone wall, which we receive in an infinite number. The device can be stolen with the opponents coming to it: bananas, monkeys, snails, frogs, wasps, floating magic skaters, snowballs, snowmen and so on.

Obstacles and obstacles should be taken seriously, as most of them will receive immediate death if you are not well prepared. And in vain, the Marios strike, the jumping on the top of the enemies is also punishable. If you hit the thrown objects, fall into one of the recesses of the track, or you touch your opponents, you will lose one life and return to the last checkpoints. And if you lose all your probabilities, you will have to restart the course from the menu.

OM-TRACE TRACE
However, what would an arcade style game do without gathering them? Tom-Tom must not only get to the end of the level from the beginning of the levels, but also have to scatter the scattered objects. There are 3 Tina dolls on each track that increase the score at the end of the game and release the girl as a playable character. In addition, there is a strip in the top left corner of the screen, which I christened as a calorie counter in my mind. So the counter will fill up to collect the goodies that come to us. The heavier the food the more fill the strip. For example, if you buy carrots or bananas, you will get only a few of the lost points, but if you eat frostbill or burger, your rate will suddenly increase.

THERE ARE NO WIDE DOLLS
With Wonder Boy Returns, however, the gameplay is not a game of simplicity. The look itself is ugly except for one or two effects. It looks like a cheap mobile game that is sad, especially because they are asking for money.

Then, collectible objects appear momentarily on the screen rather than gradually appearing as the camera follows the character. Many times you will miss a Tina doll and you will not have time to go back because you can not go back because you skate or you do not have the power to hit the object hanging in the air.

And the music ... Oh, yes the music. Have you remembered in the early 2000s the nasty, annoying MIDI ringtones that had been trying to rip the music of the old games with their repeating, endless melodies with their toes? Well, the music of Wonder Boy Returns is exactly like that. It took less than 3 minutes to take the melody of the background melody immediately and I still had to fight the levels. True, these are not hard, only the camera is too close to the characters. You know, like a cheap mobile game (why do not you feel it's not a coincidence?), Which would be justified, as the screen size is much smaller than normal. But for heaven's sake, once I run the game on PC on 1080p, why do I feel that I should get my phone?

After that, I do not think there is anyone who wants to try the Challenge mode because it is challenging enough not to crave the program immediately after turning it off.

A word of more than a hundred, Wonder Boy Returns will not redeem the world and instead of fooling nostalgia into our faces, we have just reached the opposite.
Enjoy my review.