Author: Mike Minotti / Source: VentureBeat
Shovel Knight is one of my favorite indie games. It manages to capture the magic of 8-bit classics like Mega Man and Castlevania with tight platforming and beautiful pixel graphics. The Messenger is accomplishing many of the same things, but it takes its inspiration from the Ninja Gaiden series for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
The Messenger is coming out for Switch and PC sometime this year. Nintendo is promoting the game, making it a part of its Nindies presentation earlier this week. The Messenger was also playable at a Nindies showcase event for journalists at the Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco. That’s how I got to play it.
I was immediately familiar inside The Messenger’s 8-bit world. OK, it isn’t really 8-bit. It uses more details and colors than anything on the NES could have handled. But like Shovel Knight, it captures the spirit and look of that era while delivering something a bit more vibrant. And like Shovel Knight, the controls…
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