Who doesn’t want more adventure games inspired by the heydays of the GameBoy? Probably not many, but after stumbling upon the Kickstarter campaign for Nakawak, I can’t help but be impressed by the lone developers attempt at creating a GameBoy inspired Metroidvania title coming to Steam hopefully sooner than later.
With only 7 days left in the campaign, Nakawak has well exceeded its goal of $250 and is only a few pledges away from hitting the third stretch goal. The game is actually fully developed, but the developer, Sean Filkins, is hoping to include an alternate, color version of the game. This version of the game is advertised to have exclusive levels and bosses. Its interesting to note that the goal behind this is to replicate Nintendo’s older practices of releasing different version of their titles.
Gameplay looks solid and the graphics perfectly match the feel of the original GameBoy. Inspiration is heavily founded from the original two Metroid games and the environments and character sprites make this very apparent. Look into backing this game over the next week as just a few more pledges will afford the developer to add even more unique concepts and content to the color version. Two great games is always better then one. Checkout the Kickstarter Campaign.
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