Mangavania [Game Review]

We’ve mentioned this earlier than and we imply it, generally easy is nice within the gaming world. Not each recreation must be extraordinarily complicated and look ultra-realistic and be greatest performed on 4k TVs. That’s why once we noticed Mangavania, our eyes immediately fell in love. This old-school-inspired motion recreation is generally black and white, is pixel artwork themed, and appears prefer it was launched on the NES. We lastly dove in for a better look and now have our ideas on this attention-grabbing title. Does Mangavania warrant ponying up $5 {dollars} or must you save that cash for a cup of espresso? We discover out in our overview of Mangavania for the Nintendo Change!

There isn’t a lot to Mangavania, so we are able to just about summarize this indie title simply sufficient. You play as Yuhiko, who simply so occurs to be a ninja on a mission to save lots of his brother. How does he accomplish this? Easy, by saving souls, killing baddies, and discovering keys to open doorways. Actually, the story right here isn’t going to be the primary draw for Mangavania but it surely not less than provides you a small incentive to leap round doing ninja issues!

Mangavania’s best power is the gameplay which is very simple—we are able to’t stress that sufficient—however enjoyable and simple to choose up, play, and grasp. As our little ninja you’ll be thrown to varied ranges the place the objective is easy, discover a number of pink souls to open the door and full the extent. Like basic video games throughout, your ninja will cope with varied enemies and solely has three hearts to outlive. Falling, getting hit, or taking environmental harm prices one, and shedding all three means recreation over. You may proceed from a checkpoint utilizing crystals or simply restart the extent from the start.

Talking of crystals, these are your recreation foreign money which you’ll wish to nab not only for continues however for upgrades resembling gaining a double soar, a bow, and varied different particular skills that can show you how to beat ranges quicker. There are additionally the occasional bosses that can take a look at your ninja expertise and these are enjoyable however unfold out throughout ranges. Ranges have loads of replay worth as there’s a fixed timer judging your pace and making the pace runner in all of us avid gamers simply wish to push for higher occasions. Mangavania is enjoyable and that’s the reason we are able to’t deny it harkens to simpler gaming days.

What we love about Mangavania is the basic design from the just about totally two-color visuals—there are a number of different colours in there we promise—to even the UI design. The menus really feel ripped from the 80s-level choice screens and even the improve system is only a easy buy-it-and-move-on idea. Mangavania will in all probability be disliked by newer-age avid gamers who can’t admire the old-school days however us older bees right here at Honey’s Anime love the recollections we discovered ourselves diving again into once we started our journey in Mangavania!

Actually, with video games being almost $70 now, a $5 recreation is simple to advocate! Mangavania won’t blast you with high-end visuals and a deep gameplay design however we don’t assume that was the developer’s intention. Mangavania was clearly meant to be an easy-to-play recreation however loads of room to grasp the indie title, and it accomplishes this for sure.